Jaune the shinigami - one shot

by danurso

Jaune knew he was by far the weakest student of beacon, but when pyrrha shoved him in that locker something inside him snapped, and a meeting with a hooded man that claims to be his sword will change him forever, he'll do everything on his reach to gain more power, the power to save, the power to protect, the power of a shinigami. (warning: op!jaune, bleach content and lemon ahead)

Oh boy here we go, my first fic (the first one i publish), i wasn't planning to post it since i think my grammar isn't the best (forgive me, i'm brazilian and english isn't my natural language) but i did my best, this fic has been stored since volume 4 of RWBY was still airing, so you might find some things outdated, anyways, lets cut off the chit-chat and head directly into the good stuff.

WARNING: THIS STORY CONTAINS LEMON (i know you all like it you pervs)I DO NOT OWN RWBY OR BLEACH (if i did they would be completely different shows)

(FIXED VERSION, FINALLY LEARNED HOW TO SPACE OUT MY PARAGRAPHS)

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"...i'm sorry." with these two words, pyrrha pushed jaune into the locker, the eyes of the knight widened, his fists slammed on the metal door, trying desperately to open it with no use. "no please! pyrrha! DON'T DO THIS!!!" she shouted but she kept programing the locker. "if you go up there you will die! please don't do this to me!" he kept slamming the door with no use, he watched as pyrrha finished and looked back to him, an pair of tear streaks cascading from her emerald orbs. "please...don't do this..." he pleaded weakly, tears rolling down his cheeks. "im sorry jaune...i love you." with that she pressed the button and the locker flew away. "NOOOO!" pyrrha watched as the locker flew away carrying the love of her life, she wiped her tears and put on an determined face before bolting to the tower.

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"OPEN! OPEN! OPEN! OPEN UP STUPID SHIT!!" he kept slamming his fists on the door of the locker, with enough strength to draw blood from his hands. "OPEN!!!" he slammed both fists on the door. "open..." he said brokenly, his head resting on the door as more tears rolled down his cheeks. "pyrrha..." he muttered, the images of that woman flared on his mind, he knew that pyrrha was going to die if she faced her, but what could he do? he was trapped here, he was weak, he had barely any training and was the most pathetic warrior of beacon, he didn't had the smallest of chances against her.

"NO!!" he roared slamming his fist on the door again.

"I CAN'T LET THAT HAPPEN!!!" he roared again punching the metal door again.

"I DON'T CARE IF SHE'S STRONGER THAN ME!!!" he roared and slammed his fist again, but the metal refused to bent.

"I DON'T CARE IF I'M GOING TO DIE!!!" he roared and kept punching the metal door who refused to budge, unaware by him, his sword started to glow faintly.

"I DON'T CARE FOR ANYTHING!!!" he shouted again, and the glow grew stronger.

"BUT I WON'T LET PYRRHA DIE!!!" the glow slowly started to crawl up his body.

"NO MATTER WHAT IT WILL COST ME!!!" his body soon was engulfed by an white light.

"NO MATTER THE PRICE I'LL HAVE TO PAY!!!" he shouted, his hair flared like golden flames.

"I WON'T LET THAT HAPPEN!!!" his eyes shone golden with an black sclera as he released and deafening shout with an distorted voice and the world around him was covered in a blinding light.

...

jaune slowly opened his eyes and stared at the clouded sky over him, he slowly sat up and looked around, he was sitting on the wall of an building, his first reaction was lean his back on a window to avoid falling down. "w-what happened!? where am i!?" he said and a few bubbles of air leaved his mouth, only now he noticed that he was underwater, he placed both hands over his mouth to try to keep the oxygen on his lungs.

"you can breathe normally here, don't worry." and man with an long black robe and an hood covering his his head and most of face said, jaune stared at him for a moment in shock before his hands leaved his mouth and he took a deep breath trying to calm down. "good, now, answering your previous question, this place is called dangai, although its appearance is now adapted to the place you're more used to."

jaune looked around and there was no mistake, he was in one of the buildings that composed vale, although its streets were completely empty. "w-what? wait, dangai? what is a dangai? who are you? and how're you doing this?" he asked to the man standing in a ninety degree angle on the wall, like the wall was the ground for him.

the man let out a short sigh before he answered. "try to stand up" he said simply. "but i'm already up!" jaune said, he was on the thin ledge of one of the floors. "try to stand like me." the man said, jaune eyed him like he was crazy for a moment, but the man stood silent, jaune gulped dryly before he looked down, it was an long fall, but he did as the man said, slowly and hesitantly he let his body fall from the edge, he expected to gravity to pull him down towards the streets but it didn't, he stared down with an dumbfounded expression. "wha-what the heck!?" he said, he was now standing on the wall of the building.

"don't worry, you're not going to fall down." the man said and jaune turned to him. "where am i? and who are you?" jaune asked and the mysterious man stepped closer. "this place is called dangai, it's a limbo between the world of the living and the world of the dead." he said, jaune seemed to pale as soon as he heard that. "l-limbo!? wait, that means im dead!?" he asked, the man shook his head but jaune didn't looked like he understood. "wait if im dead that means, you-you're death?" jaune said staring in shock to the man. "in a certain way, but you're not dead so calm down." he said, jaune was still nervous but at least he stopped pacing frantically.

"this is an dimension that exists between the realms of the living and the dead, it acts as an gateway to the dead to find their path to light, and usually only the souls of the dead can get in here, but the shinigamis are an exception." he said, jaune seemed to calm down and listened to his lecture. "in the beginning of times, when the two brothers created mankind, they thought that the mankind was going to rule the world as their perfect creation, but there was always a force opposing to that, the grimm." he said and extended his hand, on his hand an smal sphere formed with the images if a few humans fleeing from grimm.

"the older brother asked for the younger to wipe out the grimm, but the younger brother didn't wanted to get rid of his creation, so after long discussions both brothers came to an understanding and blessed thirteen humans with great powers to fight in even ground with grimm, they were called shinigamis, one of these shinigamis wan an ancestor of yours, ichigo arc, the first arc, he was the strongest of all the shinigamis of that time, thanks to his efforts mankind rose and managed to develop warriors capable of fighting grimm without being shinigamis." the image of the sphere changed showing an man with bright orange hair clad in black robes, and with an black katana on his hand slicing giant grimms with ease.

"but time has past and ichigo died with an old age, just like the other shinigamis, but their power never vanished, it continued in the bloodlines of the descendants of the warriors, but soon, the bloodlines stopped coming within the new generations, they started to disappear, one by one, until the point where there was no more shinigamis in the world, at least, until today." he said and the orb vanished.

"Jaune, have you ever asked yourself why you never awakened your semblance?" the man asked but jaune stood silent. "the answer is simple, semblances are an part of the human soul, your soul is not human jaune, you are not human jaune, you are a shinigami."

jaune's eyes widened, his mouth agape. "w-what? no, there is no way, you must be confusing me with someone, i'm not strong, i'm not fast, and i'm not skilled either, so how could i be an shinigami?" jaune questioned confused.

"the reason for that is simple, the power within you was dormant, you couldn't access before because you would need to get through an severe stress before it got awakened, and you've been through it lately didn't you?" the mysterious man said.

jaune stopped and thought back, the vytal festival, the attack at vale and beacon, the dragon, that woman and. "PYRRHA...!" he forgot totally, he reached up to the man and grabbed him by his shoulders. "i need to get back, my partner, she's in danger!" he said desperate but it didn't propped any reaction of the man. "i know, but if you go back now, what are you going to do?" he asked, jaune's jaw instantly clenched in anger. "i'll help her!" he shouted but the man didn't flinched. "how do you plan on doing that, do i need to remind you that you're trapped inside of a locker flying away from her?" jaune's mouth went agape before he clenched his jaw again and let out an frustrated grunt as he released the man turning away.

"you can't save her, nor any of your friends." he said, jaune flinched and was about to reply when the man said. "at least, not as an human." jaune turned him with an expression that was an mix of surprise and confusion. "what do you mean?" jaune asked.

the man raised one of his hands and gripped the top of his hood, he pulled it back revealing his face, he had an young appearance, about his age, he had pale skin, light blue eyes and long ragged black hair with brown highlights flowing with the nearly nonexistent gust of wind, or water, jaune didn't knew exactly. "my name is tensa zangetsu, and i am your zanpakuto." he said imposing.

jaune only cocked an eyebrow at that. "tensa zangetsu? zanpakuto? what does that means?" he asked confused.

"zanpakuto is the name given to the swords created by the two gods that were handed to the mans and womans who became shinigamis, these swords each carried an spirit, and when they called for that spirit their power was released in its true form, i am one of these spirits, i am your sword and my name is tensa zangetsu." zangetsu explained to him, but it did little to clarify his doubts.

"what?" he asked.

zangetsu sighed and facepalmed. "i'll put it simple, ichigo, the first arc received me from the two brothers, in the moment i was handed to him, our souls merged, and so did our powers, he became a shinigami and i became his zanpakuto, and now i am offering you this power, the power to protect your friends and defeat your enemies." he said extending his hand as jaune's eyes widened. "but the power of an shinigami has an price, the strain of using this power for the first time will be tremendous, when the fight reach its end you're going to feel more pain than you ever thought it was possible."

jaune stopped and took in what he just said, he hesitated for a moment before her gripped zangetsu's hand. "if it is to save pyrrha and protect my friends, then i'll do anything." he said with a determined expression, zangetsu opened an grin in response. "then, the pact is sealed, we can start your training." he said.

jaune instantly stopped. "wait! what!? i don't have time, if i don't hurry my friends are going to get killed!!". he said, zangetsu turned his back to him and walked in direction to the top of the building. "you can't go back now, once you enter in the dangai for the first time, you will stay trapped here for one whole year." jaune's eyes widened, his expression shifted to pure despair. "no!no!NO!! I CAN'T STAY HERE FOR SO LONG!! IF I DON'T HURRY PYRRHA IS GOING TO DIE!!" he shouted.

zangetsu sighed in response. "relax, the time here on dangai is different from the world of living, one year here is just a few minutes out there, so when the year is over you will still have time to save your friends." he said and jaune's expression changed to relief for an fraccion of a second before it turned to an angry frown. "why didn't told me that earlier?" zangetsu shrugged and jaune sighed in defeat. "let's get this over with."

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"GHAAGH" jaune's body hit the ground below him, spreading web-like cracks over him. "GHAHAHAHA!! YOU'RE TOO SLOW!!" jaune stumbled up, trying to regain his balance.

it's been almost four months that he was trapped in dangai, and although his physical capabilities skyrocketed, his skill in fighting was still poor, he sat up and looked at the figure in front of him, it had an ivory white skin, his long hair was just as white, it was wearing an white shihakusho with an black sash and with purple hairy cuffs, but the detail that called most attention was his mask, an completely black skull mask with two black horns and a pair of white stripes running vertically over his eyes.

"IS THAT ALL YOU GOT!?" he shouted and pointed an completely white katana with an broken white chain on the base of it while jaune stood up again, he readied his sword and shield and rushed to the man, only for him to appear in front of him in the blink of an eye, he slashed across his chest drawing an large amount of blood and making jaune fly across the building, he stopped only when the men appeared behind him, he held the back of jaune's head and buried it on the ground.

"TOO WEAK!! TOO SLOW!! AND WAY TOO CLUMSY!!" he removed jaune's face from the ground and threw him across the building once more, he landed face first on the ground, his body bounced a few times before it stopped near the edge of the building, one thing he came to discover on the dangai is that he couldn't rely on aura to protect him, it was useless here, but at least any of his injuries healed in question of minutes, but that didn't diminished the pain in the slightest.

"remember what i already told you, you won't be able to fight if you don't release your own shinigami powers." zangetsu said as he stood on his side.

"i know, i've been trying for weeks now, but i can't activate it." he said and zangetsu looked down, it's been nearly a month that he started to face the macabre creature, zangetsu covered the basics of combat and musculation on the first three months, and thanks to the fact that here he didn't needed to eat or rest for too long, his training progressed quickly, but as soon as the fourth month started, zangetsu brought this man that he only referred as 'white', they started to fight since then, with white always on the upper hand.

"then you should give up from saving that girl." zangetsu said.

before jaune had any chance to reply an white blur appeared in front of him sending an downward slash, jaune managed to raise his shield and hold the attack in the last second. "he's right you know! you're too weak, too fragile, you can't be an shinigami!" the ground below them cracked, jaune failed to keep his posture, white slashed jaune across the chest once more drawing an large amount of blood from the knight, he stumbled back and looked down to himself, his clothes were ragged just like his body, he knew that the injuries were healing, but it still made it pretty hard for him to fight.

"hehehe, why don't you give up?" white said with his distorted voice while shrugging, it sent shivers down jaune's spine. "don't make this any more painful to you." he said mockingly. "i will take your body and become an king in one way or another." he said like it was the simplest thing in the world, jaune's eyes widened in confusion. "what? what do you mean?" jaune asked, but the only answer that came from white was a dark chuckle.

"he means what he said." jaune then turned to zangetsu. "here in dangai you can't get hungry or thirsty, your fadige never lasts for too long, and your injuries heal way faster then they would in the living world, but just because you heal faster it doesn't means that you can't die."

jaune froze on his place, he slowly turned back to white, a dark aura was emanating from his body, and even with the mask, he could feel the devilish grin forming on his lips right now. "remember what i said on the day i brought him?" zangetsu asked but jaune shook his head. "i said 'white is an being that has the power of an shinigami himself, an power identical to yours' these were my exact words." zangetsu said, but jaune's eyes never leaved white. "you two are pretty similar, and because of that, in case you die here, you will lose your very soul, leaving your body like an empty shell." zangetsu said, white started to walk calmly in jaune's direction. "just waiting for an new king to take control over it." the distorted voice sounded making jaune shudder in fear, but he didn't backed away, he entered his fighting stance and waited for the attack.

in the blink of an eye white appeared in front of him, jaune tried to attack, but white grabbed his shield with one hand and parried the sword with his katana, he kicked jaune's chest and sent him flying back, jaune stopped some meters away and got up, he stumbled formards and held one hand on his gut with an pained expression, he could feel that white's kick had just broke something, he looked around and tried to find his weapons, his shield was on white's hand while his sword was behind him, jaune held his gut in pain and watched as white threw his shield back, slowly and calmly he started to walk to jaune, while the same stood thinking in what to do, but nothing came to his mind, so he just watched as white neared him.

"i must admit it never ceases to amaze me how brainless you can be, you've lost your weapon, why are you just standing there?" he asked but jaune didn't budge and kept staring at the pale man.

"jaune, what's the difference between an king and his horse?" jaune raised an eyebrow at the sudden question. "and i'm not talking about obvious stuff, like ones an animal and ones a person or one has two legs and one has four, form, ability and power, that's what's puzzling, if their form ability and power are exactly the same why is it that one becomes the king and leads them into battle while the other becomes the horse and carries the king, so what's the characteristic that distinguishes these two beings?" white vanished and reappeared in front of jaune, his completely blank eyes stared directly at jaune's sapphire ones. "there is only one answer... INSTINCT!!"

he roared and sent an roundhouse kick that sent jaune flying to the side, he breathed raggedly and stood up again, glaring at white. "in order for identical beings to get stronger and gain power, they need to develop an killer instinct, and that instinct is mostly forged in battle!!" white bolted in his direction, he barely had time to dodge as white sent an vertical slash that created an large crack on the ground, jaune stumbled back with the impact but managed to keep himself on foot, he looked to the side and searched for his weapon, as he spotted it he hurried in their direction.

white paid him no mind and continued. "they must develop an insatiable hunger to engage in battle, they must live to mercilessly crush, shred and slice their enemies, this thirst for power is not an unnatural desire, in fact it forms the very essence of our beings, deep within our body lies the honed instinct to dominate and slaughter our enemies!" he raised his voice in his maniac tone, jaune collected his weapons from the ground and entered his fight stance. "my friend you don't have that, you use your brain to try and win a fight you attempt to defeat your enemies with reason and logic." he said, his dark aura flared as he stepped closer, jaune stepped back on reflex. "you don't tap in those pure based instincts that exist within your core waiting to be released, and simple matter it doesn't work you're weak, jaune!" his tone turned darker as he said.

and once again he disappeared in the blink of an eye and reappeared in front of jaune, before the knight could do anything white grabbed his neck tightly and smashed him on the ground while jaune let out an choked scream of pain, white kneeled on his side, still holding his neck and followed. "i won't put up with that, am i clear? i don't know about zangetsu, but i refuse to play horse to a king who's weaker than me." his grip on jaune's neck started to tighten. "someone who's uncertainty and hesitation will end up getting us both cut to pieces." jaune struggled to find air, white stood up and raised jaune over him by his neck while jaune released his weapons and tried desperately to break free. "if you aren't willing to assert your strength and retain the crown, then i'll destroy you." his grip tighten even more, jaune felt something start to crack. "witch means...i'll be king." he said.

even with the mask, jaune knew that he had an wicked grin on his face now, not that it mattered anymore, jaune felt the world around him get darker and darker, his strength was leaving his body as his consciousness started to fade, his mind was turning to an blank state the last thing crossing it was the image of the red haired spartan that he loved so much.

im sorry jaune...

...i love you

"GAHHR" white stumbled back a few meters, he shook his head for a moment before turning ahead, in front of him was jaune arc in the middle of an pillar of white and blue light and glaring at him.

"you're right." he said with an blank stare. "i don't listen to my instincts." he said.

his shield flew from the ground and got back in his hand, like it was magnetized. "i fight using only reason and logic."

soon, his sword did the same and flew to his hand. "but now i'll listen to them." he said.

he folded his shield and sheathed his sword on it. "i'll listen to what they say." he said.

he pointed his sheathed sword forward in white's direction. "and right now, they're already telling me what to do."

his left hand was now gripping his right forearm, the pressure of the power destroyed what remained of his hoodie. "they're telling me to fight back, to scream as loud as i can!" he said.

his eyes shone blue with power. "BAN-KAI!"

he shouted, the pillar of light exploded sending an cloud of dust to every sides before it started to rotate as an hurricane around where jaune was, white raised an hand to block the dust as it started to rotate faster and faster, and suddenly, he heard an clang from a chain and the dust instantly stopped and started to settle down giving white a clear view of the figure before him.

"he finally did it." zangetsu said with an grin.

jaune had on his hand an completely black katana with a few red details on the handle and a short broken chain in the end of it, his previous ragged clothes vanished, being replaced by an black tattered overcoat with white edges and red interior, he had also an black hakama, an pair of white tabi and waraji. "tensa zangetsu." he said glaring at white.

"ohh, so you finally decided to fight back." white said playfully but jaune didn't replied, in a fragment of an second, jaune was swinging his katana in a downward vertical slash, white raised his sword and defended the slash, both of them got in a power struggle before white pushed jaune away.

jaune landed on foot and charged back at white with blinding speed, he sent one slash that white defended, he vanished and appeared behind white, he tried an horizontal slash but white spun and defended the attack once more, jaune vanished and appeared on his side slashing his sword but white defended once more, jaune backed up a few feet and vanished, he appeared on white's left side, then on the right side and then behind, he kept appearing and disappearing around him, his speed was so great it almost looked like there were several jaunes rotating around white, white kept his guard up and payed attention to him, he was fast but white could still keep track on him, only losing sight for short moments.

and in one of these short moments jaune dashed through white sending an horizontal slash on the left side of white's waist, white looked down at his own injury before he looked back at jaune, he stared at his sword who had an streak of blood running down on it, white started to chuckle, more and more until his chuckle developed into an maniac laugh. "YES! THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!! COME AND PROVE TO ME THAT YOU'RE WORTHY OF THE KING TITLE!!" he roared and bolted at jaune's direction.

jaune did the same thing, both met blades in the center of the building, trapping themselves with each others powers, they retracted from their power struggle before they leaped ahead again, white sent an furry of slashes that jaune managed to dodge or defend.

it was a weird sensation, it's like the time around him was slower, moving around and swing his sword was something he was doing almost effortlessly, he felt light just like the air, it was like all the gravity that pinned him down and kept him on a slow pace suddenly vanished into nothing, he could see white's attacks, he could defend, but more importantly, he could counter-attack.

and so he did when white gave him an opening, he slashed vertically across his chest making white stumble back, he didn't gave him any space and followed with his own flurry of slashes that white defended the most and dodged the rest, jaune swinged his sword horizontally and white swinged vertically, both got trapped again in another power struggle. "i have to admit, you're impressive." white said and pushed jaune back sending him a few meters back, he landed in foot and glared back at white. "BUT NOW I NEED YOU TO DIE!!" he roared and pointed his horns to jaune, an sphere of red energy started to form between the horns.

jaune stared at him surprised before he got back to his serious persona and prepared for the attack. "DIE!!" white roared and the beam burst in jaune's direction, jaune raised his sword and held the attack back as it pushed him back, his feet dragging on the ground as he held the attack with all of his might. "rrrrRRAAAAHR" he pushed his sword upwards and the attack flew up, exploding as soon as it made contact with the clouds covering the sky.

jaune started to breath heavily as he stared at white who looked back at him, jaune recalled his breath and an silence lingered between them, but with an unspoken signal both figures vanished and reappeared meeting swords in the sky, they vanished again and reappeared meeting blades again on the middle of the building, zangetsu watched at distance as two blurs clashed blades on the sky, his eyes narrowed as an small grin appeared on his face.

"he's finally learning." he muttered to himself.

...

"HRAAGH" both sides roared and clashed blades again, white pushed him upwards sending the blonde to the sky, he fired three quick beams of red energy, jaune dodged the first two and deflected the third one, he landed on feet and swung his sword sending an wave of black aura with red outlines, white raised his sword and defended the attack from the knight, both parts panted heavily, it's been five days that they were fighting non-stop, the dangai healed any injuries that any of them caused to each other in the long run, their stamina was taking too long to deplead, again, thanks to the dangai, but now, they were both at rock bottom, barely being able to hold themselves on feet.

"this is the end, i'll finish this now, I WILL BE THE KING!!" white roared, he pointed his horns in jaune's direction as an large sphere of energy started to form between them, growing more and more.

jaune stared at him and took a deep breath. "im sorry, but i can't let you win, there are people who i still need to save, so i can't end as the horse of the story." he said holding his katana with both hands, a dark aura with red outlines started to surround his blade and overwhelm his body.

"I WON'T PLAY THE HORSE TO YOU, NOT ANYMORE!!" white roared and released the massive attack aiming for jaune.

jaune only raised his sword and all the energy around him focused on the blade, making it look like the eye of an hurricane of dark energy. "getsuga TENSHOU!!" he exclaimed swinging his sword and sending the dark energy forwards in blinding speed.

the two beams collided and started push each other. "I WON'T LOSE, NOT TO YOU!!" white roared, his red beam started to push jaune's getsuga tenshou back, jaune tried to hold it and push back, but white was too strong, it was overwhelming jaune. "no...not now..." his legs failed and he fell in one knee, but still managed to hold the energy, but he knew that his resistance wasn't going to last. "pyrrha..." his mind rushed, images of the red spartan flared, when he met her in the initiation, their trainings together, the time they spend, the ball, every single time that she smiled so brightly to him and only to him, he was never able to pay her back for all the good things she did for him, all the thrust she put on him when anyone just though he was another failure, no, he wouldn't betray her trust now, he needed to win, he needed to save her, he wasn't going to give up now.

"RRRRHAAAH" he roared, standing up and pushing his energy forward. "i can't afford to lose, she's waiting for me, and i don't intend to make her wait! HHRYAAA!!!" he pushed his energy forward again, putting more and more energy on his attack, his beam started to push white's attack back more and more. "NO!! I CAN'T...!! NOO!!" an great blast occurred, raising a lot of dust in the now deadly silent battlefield, he just waited breathing raggedly.

as the dust settled, white was on his feet, his clothes ragged and dirty, jaune put himself on his stance again and glared at white, white on the other hand let go of his weapon as small cracks started to form on his mask. "hehe...you did well..." he chuckled weakly as the cracks spread until the mask broke, revealing the true face of his opponent. "...my king" it was him, jaune couldn't shake the surprise out of him, his wide eyes and the gap on his mouth wouldn't change, he was staring at himself, white was him, but with long ivory hair and skin, and with yellow iris along with an black sclera, he had an wide grin plastered on his face, that didn't leaved even when he started to fall forward, hitting the ground unconscious.

"you did well." jaune looked to the side where tensa zangetsu stood, he still had an surprised expression. "what happened? who is he? and why does he looks like me?" he asked, the shock evident on his voice.

tensa zangetsu looked to white before he sighed. "white, is the manifestation of your shinigami powers." he said, jaune looked back to white as well. "as i said before, my powers and ichigo's powers became one, that made ichigo into an shinigami, but even after his death, the shinigami power continued in his bloodline, and white is the manifestation of your own shinigami powers." he said for jaune's further shock. "so that means..." he started to say as zangetsu walked in white's direction. "it means that he is your natural power, he is what you could have become by yourself." he said and kneeled in front of white.

jaune turned to zangetsu with an incredulous look. "so, you mean that i could have all this power even without knowing you?" he asked and zangetsu nodded. "maybe, with a few years of harsh training and combat experience of course." he said and reached for white, zangetsu touched his shoulder and an dark energy started to surround white's body, jaune didn't knew what was happening until the energy vanished and white stood up. "that was one hell of an fight my king." he said standing up completely harmless, but still without the mask. "but it's not over, if you want to get stronger and retain your crown, you will need to train a lot harder than that." he said stretching out his muscles. "you're strong now, but this isn't your peak, and believe me, if you want to face salem, you'll need to be at your top condition." white said.

jaune sent him a questioning look. "salem? who is salem?" he asked and white turned to zangetsu. "you didn't told him, right?" white asked and zangetsu shook his head. "salem is the queen of the grimm, she is the one responsable for this mess on vale." jaune's eyes widened in shock but zangetsu continued. "she is an woman with the ability to control grimm, although she would need some help to drag so many grimms to only one place." zangetsu said.

"help? what kind of help?" he asked, the shock still present on his voice. "she can control grimm for sure, but control so many grimms at once is complicated, if she wanted to bring so many of them here she would need to fill the city with negative emotions, and she did it." jaune stood silently processing everything zangetsu was telling him. "think about it, what happened recently that may have drawn the grimm closer with an wave of negativity?" he asked.

jaune started to think about it, the breach, the vytal festival, yang's fight with mercury and... "pyrrha's fight, just like other events ended badly, cinder must have someone in her team capable of creating illusions, that would explain what happened during coco and yang's fight, both were fighting against cinder's teammates and they both hallucinated during the fight..." he started to think, his mind rushing with thoughts, he gritted his teeth, his katana was enveloped by an dark energy. "THAT BITCH!!" he roared swinging sword and sending the energy in direction of an nearby building that crumbled as soon as it got hit. "she sabotaged the other fights!! the public started to get afraid with the huntsman's behavior, and that drawed the grimm closer!" he shouted, anger dripping on his words, until an hand landed on his shoulder, he looked back at zangetsu. "focus, the fight is not over, i know you're angry but don't let that cloud your judgement, we still have a lot of work to do." he said, jaune took a deep breath and nodded. "okay, lets go."

...

"GETSUGA" he shouted and sent an wave of dark energy towards white who raised an sword to block the attack, at the same time, he spun and raised his sword to defend himself against zangetsu's slash, an small grin appeared on zangetsu's face. "good defence." he said, zangetsu swinged his sword upwards and sent an roundhouse kick, he dodged the sword but the roundhouse kick ended colliding with jaune's face and sending him back to the ground.

it has been six months since his fight with white, and after that day, his training stepped up a few levels, now both zangetsu and white were fighting against him at the same time, they were teaching him everything they knew about salem, although zangetsu didn't seemed too fond of the idea, another thing he came to discover during these months was that all the other shinigami lineages were exterminated by salem, that only served to raise jaune's hatred against the woman.

"this isn't enough, i need to get stronger." jaune murmured, getting up with an ragged breath and getting on his stance. "you've been going pretty well these last six months jaune." zangetsu praised.

"all thanks to you two." he said and zangetsu opened an small grin, he lowered his sword and white did the same, jaune got confused by the action but zangetsu motioned for him to lower his weapon as well. "i think that's good for combat training, rest for now, we can continue later." zangetsu said and jaune nodded, but there was still something more he wanted to say. "zangetsu..." he called, his zanpakuto turned to him. "when im going to link with you?" he asked.

zangetsu's eyebrow visibly twitched at the question, zangetsu already explained to jaune several times, the shinigami was composed of two fused powers, the power of the swordsman and the power of the sword, for now, jaune was only using his own powers, to turn him into a full shinigami he would need to link with zangetsu and fuse their powers. "you're not ready for that." he said turning away, white crossed his arms and watched the ordeal silently.

"what do you mean by i'm not ready, its been ten months now, and i'm way stronger than i was before, i know i'm ready." he said, zangetsu stopped, without even looking back at him. "i said that you're not." he said and continued. "yes i am! i've been through a lot during these months, you offered me power to save my friends, but every time i brought this subject up you avoided it! why are you doing this!?"

zangetsu stood silent for a moment before he spoke. "you want power to protect, but you're not the only one." his words let jaune confuse, white walked closer and stood besides zangetsu as he turned to jaune.

"then what? what do i need to do to get this power? do i need to defeat you?" jaune asked, zangetsu stared at him for an short moment before the answer came. "no, you don't have to fight me." he said and white continued. "you need to fight us two as one." he said letting jaune even more confuse. "what do you mean by that?" the only answer he got was both men starting to vanish into dust, both clouds of dust merged between them and started to take form, when the two of them vanished completely, the dust cloud neared the ground and took form of an man. "since the beginning, both of us were just one existence..." the man kneeled on the ground stood up making jaune's eyes widen. "we are your power." tensa zangetsu stood in front of him, now with ivory white skin and hair, his right eye kept the normal coloration while the left one got an white iris and an black sclera, he had an piece of an helmet on him with an black horn coming out of it, it was like an part of white's mask when they first fough.

jaune felt his entire body shake, but raised his stance the same. "i can't back up now, i need to protect them, i need to protect pyrrha."

white zangetsu sighed with eyes closed, in the blink of an eye, he appeared in front of jaune, and before he had the chance to do anything, white zangetsu held his sword with his bare hand making the eyes of the blonde shinigami get wide. "we both want to protect something, but don't misunderstand yourself, what you want to protect is not the same thing i want to protect." he said with an deadly edge, and jaune prepared himself for what he knew it would be the hardest battle he ever had.

...

*clang*jaune stared wide eyed as the attack from white zangetsu just broke his sword, he quickly spun and raised his arm just in time to defend the attack from white zangetsu, but it still sent him flying to an close building, he fell down on another building but managed to keep up taking in a deep breath.

"still on foot..." he looked up to the other building where white zangetsu stood glaring menacingly at him. "...jaune?" they both exchanged looks, jaune ignored the pain from the bleeding cuts on his leg and arm, he knew they would heal sooner or later.

"i said i wouldn't give up, at least not until you link up with me." he said, he was out of time, today was the final day, and he barely managed to deal an scratch on white zangetsu, he needed to finish this, but he didn't knew how.

"i thought i said, NO!" he flew in jaune's direction, he sent an slash but jaune defended, he followed with six more slashes, each one of them jaune managed to defend, then white zangetsu sent an horizontal slash, jaune tried to step back only to step out of the building, he dodged the attack but lost his balance, white zangetsu used this chance and kicked his gut sending him flying back colliding with full force on a building below

'what is that?' he asked himself trying to get up 'if he really wanted to defeat me he could've done this from the start, the difference between our powers is glaring'

jaune dodged to the side avoiding an downward slash coming from white zangetsu, he backed up a few meters and waited for the dust around white zangetsu to settle, and from the dust came white zangetsu charging at him, he sent an horizontal slash, jaune stepped back and dodged, but white zangetsu continued to press him.

'but if he doesn't want to kill me he should stop fighting and hide, it should be easy for him to do it'

he sent four horizontal slashes that jaune managed to deflect, it followed with an downward vertical slash, jaune defended but white zangetsu continued with an upward vertical slash, jaune managed to defend but white zangetsu didn't stopped and followed with an horizontal slash that jaune deflected opening himself for an thrust that he barely managed to dodge, but quickly white zangetsu held his arm and threw him across the building, he fell with his back on the ground

'then why...'

he stumbled to get up, but as he did, he locked gazes with white zangetsu.

'why i can only feel sadness emanating from that sword'

he looked down for a moment before charging at jaune sending an horizontal slash, jaune raised his sword and held up his attack, making both of them fly across the skies with white zangetsu pushing him back, but he didn't broke his gaze and kept his eyes locked with white zangetsu's.

they stared at each other for a moment before white zangetsu looked away, avoiding his gaze, jaune's eyes blinked for a moment before white zangetsu swung his sword horizontally turning his back to jaune and sending the same flying across the skies, he stared back at white zangetsu who charged at him, sword on hand and aiming for him, jaune stared at him, but what caught his attention were his eyes and the emotion they carried, slowly, jaune's expression softened, and he opened an small smile, letting go of his sword right after, white zangetsu's eyes widened before he pierced jaune through his heart.

Jaune let out an pained scream, but after the initial shock passed, he looked down at the sword piercing his chest and the blood flowing out of it.

"so you realized..." he looked to the man in front of him, holding the sword that was piercing his heard and looking down. "...the only way to link with me is accepting my sword." he said still averting his gaze.

"it...doesn't hurt." he said feeling the lack of pain where the injury was. "of course not, i, tensa zangetsu, am part of you." he declared. "if you accept me, there will be no pain for being pierced by my sword." he could see the tears streaming his face.

"why are you crying?" jaune asked concerned. "jaune...do you remember what did i said in the beginning of this fight?" he asked and the memory flowed through jaune's mind

'don't misunderstand yourself, what you want to protect its not the same thing i want to protect'

he dropped his head slightly, his expression filled with concern. "yes." he could feel white zangetsu's body trembling as more tears rolled down his cheeks. "what i want to protect..." he raised his head and faced jaune. "...its you jaune." he said, jaune blinked, his eyes widened in surprise.

"what do you mean?" he asked. "i already told you that ichigo died, but i lied about something, he died in his battle with aizen the king of grimm, he managed to kill aizen but salem killed ichigo right after since he was too weak, i don't want you to just die like him, i don't want you to die like every single other shinigami." he said, more tears streaming down his face.

jaune's expression shifted, he opened an small smile and followed. "i won't die, i promise, you don't have to worry about me." he said, slowly, white zangetsu let go of his sword and started to fly back slowly as the world around his started to get darker. "now you're linked with me, my power, my techniques, my skill, my knowledge and everything else i have will be passed to you through this sword... farewell." he said as he slowly flew away, jaune couldn't help as an tearstreak rolled down on his cheek. "and jaune...good luck." was the last thing he said before the world got completely black.

...

*BOOM*the locker door flew away as jaune stepped out of it, he looked around for a moment to stare at the destroyed city. "wait for me pyrrha." he said to himself and disappeared instantly.

...

the battle on top of the tower was reaching to an end with the spartan kneeled on the ground in front of the fake maiden, with the little strength she had, she looked up to the eyes of her assailant. "do you believe in destiny?" she asked, cinder simply replied with an. "yes." before she formed her bow and aimed to the chest of the spartan, an small grin appeared on her face an second before she released the string and let the arrow bury itself on the spartan's chest.

*CRACK*

"what?" she asked herself, the arrow that should've been on the chest of the spartan was now stuck on the ground, and the spartan was nowhere to be seen, but that sound she just heard, it wasn't the sound of her arrow stucking on the ground, she looked around, her eyes landed on the blonde figure with the redhead spartan over his shoulder, he was wearing an long tattered black overcoat with white edges and interior, the middle was a bit torn revealing much of his chest and abs, he was wearing an black hakama as well and was barefoot, with an black katana on his hand, it seemed stuck on it with an black gauntlet with an chain running all the way up to his arm, his piercing sapphire blue eyes, long messy blonde hair and indifferent expression almost made her misjudge who it really was.

he turned back and gently put the spartan on the ground, she could only stare wide eyed at the blonde boy in front of her. "jaune?" she asked completely surprised and incredulous with his new appearance, if she wasn't in the battlefield in the middle of an death battle she was pretty sure that her face would get as scarlet as her hair.

he nodded with an small smile, he raised his left hand, he gently cupped one of her cheeks and stroked it lightly, he kneeled and brought his face closer to hers closing the distance between them with an soft kiss that carried all of his emotions, the spartan got surprised by the sudden action but reciprocated as soon as she could, he broke the kiss and stared down at her, her beautiful face, her stunning emerald green eyes and gorgeous scarlet hair. "thanks for staying alive until i arrived pyrrha." he said with an soft smile as he got up, the only thing she could do was nod dumbly, completely stunned.

he turned back to cinder and closed his eyes, his mind roamed around vale, he sighed in relief as he found the aura of his friends, some were hurt but they were all alive. "good, all the others are okay." he said to himself and turned back to the spartan. "pyrrha, stay where you are, stay exactly where you are." he said.

pyrrha tried to stand up but failed. "what do you mean jaune? you can't face her, she's too strong." she said, he just opened an small smile before his expression shifted back to the serious one, what happened to him, a few minutes ago jaune wouldn't have acted like that, jusu what happened to the jaune she knew?

"arc?" he heard the voice of his object of hatred and turned to her with a serious expression. "is that you? are they so desperate that they had to send the weakest student here?" she said with an mocking tone, but he seemed to have ignored. "i know what you did cinder." he stated.

she raised an eyebrow and opened an smirk. "and what did i do?" she asked and his eyes narrowed. "i know you're working with salem, the queen of the grimm, the woman who can control and create all kinds of grimm, i know about the four season maidens and the power you stole from one of them, i know that you've been planning this attack for months now, but more importantly, i know that one of your teammates has the power to create illusions, and i know you used that power to frame yang and pyrrha, just for the negativity on vale increase and make it easier for your queen send grimms to attack the city."

her eyes widened at his words, she gritted her teeth and glared back at him. "how? how did you find out!?" she spat, but his expression remained unfazed. "an friend of mine explained all about salem and the maidens, the rest i just had to put to an thought, it came easier then i thought it would." he said.

From her frown, came back her usual smirk. "is that it? so you didn't told anyone else this theory?" he shook his head and her smirk got wider. "such a pity, you just got it right, it was so easy to manipulate torchwick and the stupid faunus to work with us, and thanks to emerald's semblance it was just as easy to frame your friends, and you want to know the best part of it? my mistress' plan is occurring just as planned, and no one will ever know because i'm going to kill both of you, afterall, dead man's don't tell stories." she said forming an pair of swords and pointing one of them at jaune.

"thank you cinder." he said simply and she raised an eyebrow. "i thought i would need to try harder to make you talk, but i think you're so full of yourself that you didn't even realized what was going on right below your nose." he said simply and she narrowed her eyes. "and what was going on?" she asked, he turned his attention to the side, she followed his gaze, her eyes widened, there was an scroll there, the camera aiming for them. "smile cinder, you're on tv."

...

right down at vale, ren, nora, ruby and weiss were staring at their scrolls. "is that jaune? is that really jaune?" ruby asked. "why his hair is so long?" she continued. "it may be just me, but doesn't he look taller as well?" weiss asked. "WHO CARES!? HE LOOKS SUPER BADASS!!" nora shouted. "he does look quite different." ren said eyes wide just like the others.

...

right down at one of the med bays, blake was looking at one of the tv panels along with yang a unconscious yang and many other citizens, the girl was confused and surprised with the appearance of the knight, and was infuriated with the woman, blake had to resist the urge of grabbing her weapon when she said that she was manipulating the faunus.

...

adam taurus gritted his teeth in anger, he would hunt down this woman, and would make her suffer before he killed her for manipulating him.

...

glynda, qrow and ironwood could just stare wide eyed at the screen. "so, thats what he wanted huh." qrow said pulling his flask.

...

A few minutes earlierqrow slashed another grimm with his scythe while ironwood fire with his pistol at an pair of wolves, glynda was behind them using her semblance to defeat the grimm, but they were starting to get overwhelmed.

"there are too many of them." ironwood said punching an ursa and sending it back. "tell me something i don't know jimmy" qrow said cutting an griffon in half. "can you two stop acting like kids for just an single minute." glynda said lifting an giant boulder and smashing it over the head of an deathstalker, but no matter how many they killed, more kept coming. "if i die here, i'll come back just to haunt you jimmy." qrow said, almost back-to-back with the other two huntsman. "shut up qrow." he said, as the grimm came closer and closer.

*CRACK*

they looked to the side were an blonde figure clad in black landed, he walked to ironwood and said. "you're james ironwood?" ironwood only nodded.

"mr. arc, what happened to you?" glynda asked, he glanced to her for an small moment before he continued. "i'll explain later, but now i need a favor." he said, seriousness present on his tone. "as the general and headmaster on atlas, the creators of the CCT im sure you have full access to it don't you?" he asked and ironwood nodded. "the CCT is damaged but its still working, but it won't take too much before it stops completely, i can finish this war, but i need two scrolls with an camera that can transmit on live to all of remnant." he said.

the three teaches eyed him with confusion. "i think it's possible, but even so, what are you talking about? how can you end this war?" ironwood asked, he pulled his revolver and shoot an grimm nearing him. "just go to an safe zone, it's too dangerous for a student to stay here." he said.

jaune only sighed at that. "get down" he said. "what?" ironwood asked. "i said get down." he raised his sword to the side, the three teachers ducked and avoided his horizontal slash, the pressure of the attack almost made them fly away, they got up and looked around, all the grimm that were surrounding them were cut in half and already dissipating, the buildings had an clean cut on the level of the slash, the more damaged buildings started to crumble raising an large cloud of dust, the three teachers stared at the boy with incredulous expressions, with one swing of his sword he was capable of cause such an destruction. "are you going to help me now?"

…

Back to the present"he managed to get an confession from her." glynda said while ironwood curled his hands into fists. "damn it, so salem was really involved with this." he grunted lowly. "this kid is crazy, calling so much attention with this stunt, well, i think all we can do now is watch and see what tricks he got on his cuff."

...

"no, no! NO! YOU BASTARD!!" she roared and charged at him. "look out!!" pyrrha warned, cinder made an downward slash with both her swords, but jaune just stood waiting, compared to white zangetsu, the girl almost seemed to move in slow motion, he lazily swinged his sword, colliding with hers and shattering both instantly, the pressure sent her back, she eyed him with incredulous wide eyes.

"you manipulated and killed lots of innocent people, you hurt and framed my friends, and you dared to hurt my partner, for that i will kill you." he said coldly pointing his sword at her.

*ROAR*

the dragon grimm roared and flew away, taking some distance before he started to fly back, cinder opened an victorious smirk. "you and your little girlfriend are finished." she said.

jaune ignored her and started to walk calmly in the dragon's direction, when he got in the edge of the building he didn't stopped, he kept walking on the air like it was an solid ground, the dragon roared and continued on his way, jaune stopped in mid air and waited as the dragon neared him.

"JAUNE!!" pyrrha called, the dragon roared again opening his jaws and preparing to devour his prey, jaune raised his sword and when the dragon was about to devour him she made an downward vertical slash and vanished right after, they all just watched as the dragon landed on the tower, his head over the building.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? KILL HIM! KILL HIM NOW!!" cinder shouted, but the dragon didn't reacted, instead, an trail of black blood appeared from the now apparent cut in the middle of the dragon head, her eyes widened as half of the mighty dragon started to fall down before the other half fell along, her eyes widened in terror and looked back at jaune who was standing in front of pyrrha after he cut the mighty grimm dragon in half with a single attack. "how..."

...

"HE CUT IT IN HALF!! HE CUT THAT GIANT DRAGON IN HALF!!" nora shouted shaking ren back and forth, releasing him and looking back at the screen with an excited grin, ren could only stare wide eyed at his friend and brother's power demonstration. "how did he got so powerful!?" weiss asked baffled. "KICK HER BUTT JAUNE!" ruby cheated excitedly.

...

"holy. crap." was the only thing sun who just got there along with his team managed to say. "what happened to him? he wasn't like that an hour ago." blake said, both girls staring at the scroll with wide eyes. "dunno, but i wouldn't want to be in cinder's skin right now." he added.

...

"he did it..." glynda said baffled staring at the large screen. "sutch power, imagine an atlas operative with this power." ironwood said, eyes glued on the screen, qrow sighed. "the kid just cut that overgrown lizard in two and you're worried about turning him into one of your tin mans? why i'm not surprised." qrow said turning back to the screen.

...

the rest of remnant could only stare in awe as the blonde savior cut the giant grimm in half, making any other grimm that were close flee from the threat, if someone managed to kill such powerful monster, they could be the next.

...

somewhere in the farther corner of vale seven blonde sisters, an blonde father and mother were cheering loudly for the boy, just like an australian red haired father and mother thanking oum for the boy protecting their daughter, even though the father was still feeling a bit murderous after seeing him kissing his daughter.

...

"how did you do that?" cinder said baffled, eyes wide, but the blonde ignored her and turned to the red haired spartan, he kneeled in front of her with an soft smile. "pyrrha, put your hands around my neck and hold on tightly." he said, she nodded and wrapped her arms around his neck, he got up pulling her up and wrapping his free hand around her waist. "hold on okay." he said and she nodded, she didn't had time to ask what he was doing, when she realized they were in one of the med bays.

"stay here okay." he said, all the citizens turned to him stunned, in one second he was on the tv, and on the other he was here. "but what about you?" she asked worried. "i'm going to finish this war once for all." he said and released her, she stumbled a bit but managed to keep herself on feet, but held her gaze down, he raised his hand and cupped her cheek, she looked back to him, her emerald orbs starting to get filled with tears.

"i'll come back to you, i promise." he said with an assuring smile, pyrrha wrapped her arms around his neck again, and clashed her lips on his, his eyes widened for a moment before he reciprocated the contact, kissing her back as much emotion as he could, pyrrha pulled back and gave him an small smile. "i'll be waiting." she said releasing him, he nodded. "and pyrrha." he called her with an warm smile. "i love you too." he said and disappeared in a black blur leaving an stunned spartan back.

"looks like someone finally got lucky." pyrrha turned around to a grinning sun, his team, blake and the crowd staring at her. "y-you were watching?" she stammered, her face matching the color of her hair. "look, he came back." one of the civilians said turning back to the tv, and so did them.

...

jaune arrived back at the building and glared at the woman. "you...you can't be jaune arc, jaune arc was weak, you can't be him!" she said throwing an salvo of fireballs in his direction.

he slashed his sword, the gust of wind put out the fireballs and almost sent her over the edge. "shut up, i'm not interested in you, i want your mistress." he said coldly.

cinder opened an grin almost instantly. "you can't reach her, she's leagues above you, she is the one who will rule over this world and all the living beings on it." she said, but his expression didn't shifted, she gritted her teeth for a moment before an devilish smirk spreaded on her face. "and don't worry about your red haired girlfriend, i'm sure my mistress will be merciful to her, maybe feed her to the grimm or maybe feed the white fang, i'm sure someone endowed as her would be appreciated by the-" she was stopped when an palm collided with her face and gripped her head.

"shut up." was the last thing she heard before he leaped pushing her further in the air with unmatching speed, she didn't knew how long he was pushing her neither where she was carrying her to, she only felt when he released her and she collided her back into a glass window, landing on a wooden table right after making her grunt in pain.

"cinder?" her eyes shot open, she looked to the side were an familiar pale figure stood. "m-my mistress, how-"."silence." she said raising a hand and turning to the blonde figure standing by the window. "you..." her eyes widened, cinder stared at her mistress, her expression changed, was she...afraid, no that wasn't possible, salem couldn't be afraid of an mere human. "i'm here to make you pay for all the crimes you committed against the humans and the shinigamis, salem." cinder saw how salem flinched at the word 'shinigamis'.

"how dare you to threaten my lady." jaune looked to the side where an scorpion faunus clad in white glared at him.

"who are you?" an tall man with broad shoulders with an green shirt asked.

"and how did you managed to get here so fast?" an man with a moustache asked.

"you all turned your backs against mankind and allied with salem, you deserve the same fate as her." he said.

"you-" cinder started to say but was stopped as soon as she felt salem emanating a dark energy. "shinigamis, i killed all of them once, i won't be defeated by just one shinigami." an pitch black shapeless sword manifested on her hand, she disappeared and reappeared colliding swords with her, the pressure of the attack destroyed the half of the castle above her, four sets of eyes widened. "you're familiar, you are just like the shinigami who killed my husband."

jaune pushed her back but she landed on feet. "your husband tried to kill all the humans, he deserved his fate." jaune's dark aura with dark blue outlines started to flare. "different from the shinigamis you killed and the innocent people you slayed." he said trying to retain his anger.

"my husband was going to cure this world from the disease that are the humans, and an single shinigami can't do anything about this, just look at the destruction one swing of my sword caused, i am leagues above you shinigami." she said looking around at her castle now cut in half. "dispose him" salem commanded.

"yes my lady." tyrian cackled with an maniac grin and charged at jaune just like hazel and cinder while watts pulled a pistol and fired at jaune, but jaune didn't fought back, he simply started to dodge all the attacks from salem's minions, even if they were four against one, jaune didn't had any difficulty in dodge, they all looked like they were in slow motion to him, during this whole time, no one noticed the scroll stuck in the remainings of the window that jaune came through.

...

"what? is that the grimm queen that cinder spoke of?" ruby asked, shivers running down her spine as she stared at the pale woman. "no, it can't be true, there is no way only one person can control all grimm." weiss said while ren and nora watched silently, just as startled as the red reaper.

...

"this can't be real." blake's mouth was agape as she stared at the pale woman. "what are they talking about? what is a shinigami?" neptune asked, they turned to pyrrha who was eyeing the television with an worried expression. "please, just come back safe." she murmured under her breath, praying for the boy she loved to come back in one piece.

...

"this is insane! how did he found her? and how did he get to her so fast?" ironwood asked out loud.

"shinigami..." glynda murmured, both mans looked back at her. "you know something about that?" qrow asked and she nodded. "ozpin once told me about an ancient legend of thirteen warriors that were gifted with the power to face the grimm in even ground without even using dust, these warriors were called shinigamis, the story he told me said that in the beginning, salem had an husband called aizen, he was just as powerful as her if not more, he created ten humanoid grimms almost as powerful as he was, each one of them carried an number, they were called espadas, aizen and the espadas fought against the shinigamis, in the end the shinigamis won but the few who remained were severely hurt, and salem used the chance she had to finish all of them, i never thought the story was real, much less that there was an shinigami still alive." she said and stared back at the screen.

"this kid can finally end this war." qrow said lowly while the other professors nodded, and for the first time in ages, they felt a spark of hope lit inside themselves.

...

"WHY! WON'T! YOU! DIE!" tyrian roared, no matter how fast he attacked, he couldn't hit the boy, even cinder and hazel were already far beyond angered with the lack of impact judging by how many attacks they threw at him.

salem grit her teeth and raised one of her hands. "out of my way." she commanded, her minions instantly leaved, when she lowered her hand, an nevermore came from the sky and dived in jaune's direction, jaune waited until it was close enough for him to slice it in half making the creature fall in front of him, soon enough, another two nevermore came from the sky, he repeated the process and sliced the two creatures, and soon more and more nevermores came from the sky, he sliced all of them creating an large pool of grimm blood around him.

he glared at the woman who was carrying an victorious grin. "foolish child, you never stood a chance." she motioned her open palm towards him before she closed it completely, suddenly, the bodies of the grimm started to melt in more blood, and the blood started to crawl up jaune's body, but the same remained with an calm and unfazed expression staring at her, the blood continued to crawl up around his body imprisoning him in a large black rectangle of grimm blood before it solidified completely, she and her minions all had victorious smirks on their faces.

...

"JAUNE!!" ruby, weiss, nora and ren starred in despair as jaune was engulfed by the sea of grimm blood.

...

blake held her mouth while SSSN stared wide eyed at the image. "don't worry." they turned to pyrrha whose eyes were glued on the screen with an convicted expression. "he will come back alive, he promised he would."

...

"come on kid, fight back!" qrow grunted. "it's useless, i think we put too much hope in only one child." ironwood sighed and looked down. "i don't think so." he glanced back at glynda and looked back at the screen.

...

"solidified grimm blood is harder than steel, no one can escape this trap, you'll have an slow and agonizing death, unable to move or even breathe while being submerged on it." she said. "what should we do now my mistress." cinder asked and salem turned to her. "we-"

*CRACK*

she was interrupted by the sound of what looked like glass shattering, her tremble vision slowly shifted to the source of it, her gaze locked on the blonde boy holding his arm up to the side. "looks like you still didn't realized..." her eyes widened. "...i am way stronger than you." he said calmly and started to take slow and calm steps on her direction. "what destroyed your castle, was my sword." he said simply, propping an unconscious step back of the grimm woman. "lets go, salem." as soon as he said, he bolted in a black blur in her direction, he stopped in front of her, swinging her sword upwards, slashing the grimm woman and drawing an large amount of grimm blood from the woman who leaped back holding the huge cut across her chest.

"that's weird, you just said that i didn't stood a chance..." he narrowed his eyes and glared at the grimm woman. "...if that's true, then why are you running away from me?" he asked coldly, salem's eyes widened in anger as she gritted her teeth, her minions could only stare in shock as they saw their mistress receive such an fast attack.

"you..." she growled, they already seen salem angry before, but now, she wasn't angry, she was infuriated. "you low shinigami...STOP BEING SO ARROGANT!!" the jewel on her forehead exploded, and from it she started to bleed, the blood coming from it started to envelop her face, then her hair until it enveloped her whole body.

jaune looked around, the grimm blood around him started to flow in her direction gathering on her, growing and forming an sphere of dark blood around her, soon, several grimms started to gather and charge at the dark blood sphere, melting instantly at the contact, the sphere grew more and more, and suddenly tentacles came from it and wrapped around the neck of salem's minions and started to pull them inside the large blood orb.

"my-my lady, di-did i do something wrong? my lady? MY LADY!?" tyrian called her before he was engulfed by the dark sphere.

"NO, NOT WHILE OZPIN IS STILL OUT THERE!!" hazel roared trying to break free, but it was useless to try, in the end he was slowly dragged inside the sphere.

"why? that was not the deal, let me go, i can still be useful to yo-ohg." arthur tried to complain but was stopped when salem dragged him inside the sphere.

"no! NO! YOU PROMISED ME POWER, YOU SAID THAT I WOULD HELP YOU TO RULE THIS WORLD!!" she roared trying to use her maiden powers to break free, with no effects.

"and you believed her?" she turned to jaune who was watching the scene with an unfazed expression. "and you called me stupid." he said, she gritted her teeth. "you...BASTARD!!!" she threw an large fireball at him, he swung his sword and threw it back at her, her eyes widened before it collided with her sending her flying directly to the orb who engulfed her instantly, as soon as it engulfed cinder, the sphere pulsed slightly and the blood solidified, jaune stared at it for a moment before cracks started to appear on it before it shattered completely revealing an humanoid creature.

it stood in the middle of the sphere, flapping three pairs of white wings, its body was completely white, the creature had long white hair in contrast with its dark face its hands were like talons, its mouth was like an shark jaw, when its eyes opened, he could see that they were plain red, just like the grimm, the creature vanished in a instant and appeared in front of jaune. "die." it said sending an uppercut that collided with jaune's chin sending him upwards flying to the sky, the creature opened its jaw and an dark purple orb formed on it, it fired the orb at an blinding speed towards jaune, it collided with him causing an large explosion on the sky.

...

"NOO!!" the reaper and her friends cried out.

...

"it can't be true." sun murmured. "he..." blake started, the civilians stared in shock at the screen. "please, you promised..." they turned to pyrrha who had a pair of tear streaks rolling down her cheeks. "get back alive."

...

"was she always powerful like that?" ironwood asked and glynda shook her head. "she concentrated all that grimm essence on her body, and probably what is keeping all that energy focused is the maiden power." glynda theorized as qrow took an large glup on his flask. "c'mon kid, end this." he murmured.

...

at the other side of vale, an blonde family cried in despair the name of the blonde knight.

...

from the smoke caused by the explosion fell down jaune arc, with a severe burn on his left arm. "clever i must admit, you used your arm to block most part of the damage, but i don't think you can use it anymore can you?" salem's voice resonated through the screens of every device in remnant.

she flew at bullet speed in his direction, connecting an massive punch on his face that sent him flying to the side, she appeared in front of him and punched his face again sending him directly to the ground, she landed in front of him, she grabbed his neck and removed his body from the human shaped dent on the ground, lifting him up and tightening her hold on his neck. "are you still conscious? i must admit you surprised me for an moment, but again, you are less then nothing, you're only one, you can't defeat me, all that effort, all that work you got through was useless, its over to you..." she squeezed his neck tightly. "...shinigami." she hissed coldly.

"its over?" he repeated her words surprising the grimm woman, his sapphire blue eyes glared at her. "that's all you got?" he swung his sword cutting her arm and pushing her back. "GHAARGH!!" she cried in pain and gripped the bleeding stump tightly.

"you say i can't defeat you because i am alone, but thats where you're wrong." she looked back at him, her eyes instantly widened, on his left was white zangetsu and on his right was ichigo arc, and behind them stood all the other twelve shinigamis, he pointed his sword at her and gripped his forearm tightly. "i am never alone." he said before he was engulfed by an blue pillar of light with dark flames around it. "wha-what is this form?" she gasped as she watched the blue light pilar disappear releasing an large gust of wind, she raised her arms to cover herself, and when she lowered her arms she locked her wide eyes with now completely scarlet ones.

"the final getsuga tenshou." he said, his form was completely different, his eyes were red, his hair was now long and black and his clothes transformed in a bandage-like carapace covering his legs, torso, right arm and reached up until his nose acting like an mask, he was emanating an smoky black aura around him and from his right arm.

"this is a technique where i pull all the remaining powers from the last shinigamis, and release them completely, if i use this technique, their power, their essence will vanish completely, thats why its called final." he said simply, salem gritted her teeth and glared back at him. "impossible, YOU CAN'T DEFEAT ME, AN LOW HUMAN WILL NEVER REACH MY LEVEL!!!" jaune ignored her angered shouts and raised his arm, the dark smoky aura formed an sword on his hand, he glared at the one responsible for all this mess once more before he said. "mugetsu." he exclaimed lowering his arm, sending an torrent of black flames that cut salem in half and consumed her body completely.

...

"he did it..." weiss muttered stupefied. "HE WON!!!" ruby jumped cheering loudly. "HE DID IT!!!" nora shouted excited while ren stared contently at the screen.

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"he killed her..." blake said, eyes completely wide. "THAT WAS AWESOME!!!" sun shouted while the other citizens happily cheared and celebrated the defeat of the grimm woman, but none of them was happier then pyrrha.

...

"salem...was defeated?" ironwood asked stunned while glynda nodded dumbly, they heard an low chuckle and turned to qrow. "we finally did it summer..." he squeezed his flask and crumbled it completely before he threw away. "...we finished this war, our daughter won't have to get through all that mess like we did." he said lowly, staring at the sky, the other two teacher stood silent in respect for him.

...

jaune slowly fell down and landed, his bandage-like carapace started to crack, he knew he wasn't far from his limit, he needed to head back to vale quickly, he turned in vale's direction and flash stepped away, in the middle of the way, he saw the group of white fang that fled from vale after the attack. "i think i have time to take care of this."

...

"lets go! lets go! the injured first." ironwood said guiding the hurt people inside the bullhead, glynda helped the people with minor injuries while qrow sat down in front of his niece and her friends who refused to enter on the bullhead, at least not while their blonde friend didn't came back.

"when he come back i'll take him to you, you all can go now." qrow said but they shook their head. "we won't go anywhere without our fearless and now super badass leader." nora said and ren nodded. "and we won't leave them back." ruby added and the others nodded.

Qrow then glanced at yang who was looking away. "and you firecracker, why don't you go ahead for them to take an better look at your arm?" yang looked down at her bandaged stump and her body started to shake, that's when three hands fell over her, one was ruby's while the other was from weiss while the third one was from blake, all of them smiled sympathetically towards her, her body stopped trembling and she took in a deep breath. "im fine, if ruby will stay here, i'll stick with her." yang said and qrow let out an sigh.

"how long do you think we have to wait for him to show up?" nora asked but ren shrugged. "i don't know." he replied. "but pyrrha might know." blake said. "yeah." sun continued. "these two really seemed in touch, specially their lips." he grinned and all of them turned to the bright red pyrrha. "i-i don't know either." she said avoiding the smug grin on the face of some of her friends.

After that, it didn't took long to an figure to land in front of them. "sorry for the wait, i had to deal with something on my way back." he said releasing an bruised and unconscious adam taurus on the ground, drawing shocked looks from both blake and yang, he stopped looking around paying attention to his surroundings and all the destruction on it, but the stupor didn't lasted long since his attention shifted to the spartan that just wrapped her arms around his neck. "i was so worried." she said, his expression softened and he started to stroke her hair soothingly.

"im here, and i won't leave you, i promise." she pulled back and stared at him, an bright smile formed on his face, she opened an smaller one of her on and locked gazes with him, the time seemed to have stopped around them, they brought their faces closer and when they were about to met.

"ahem..."

both parted away with an light red blush and looked to the general standing in front of them. "i hate to interrupt your tender moment, but i need to ask, did salem really died?" ironwood asked and he nodded. "you won't ever hear about that witch again." he said in a cold tone and ironwood nodded. "then i must thank you, in name of all remnant, you saved more lives today than you can possibly imagine, although you got me curious with something, why did you wanted to transmit on live everything that happened?" he asked.

jaune then looked at the civilians. "well, after what happened here, i knew people were going to be afraid of what might happen to them, so i decided to put all cards on the table, i showed everyone the true villain behind the curtains, so people knew who they should be more scared of." Jaune said.

"And then you proceed to defeat said evil and showed them that they won't have to worry about it." Ironwood conclude and jaune nodded. "I have to admit, while it was risky, i have to say that it was also brilliant, im sure if ozpin was here he would be proud of the student he let slip past into beacon." he said propping an raised eyebrows from the shinigami. "what do you mean?" ironwood let out an low chuckle.

"of course you don't know, during one of my conversations with ozpin, he told me about the two most promising first year teams of beacon, he told me about each one of you until we landed on you mr.arc." he said pointing to jaune. "he told me how you managed to get in with fake transcripts." he said and jaune blinked twice before he blurted out. "HE KNEW?" ironwood nodded. "the first thing i did was ask 'if this boy with no training faked his way into beacon, why didn't you expelled him already?' ozpin's only reply was 'because he may have an weak body, but his heart and his mind are in the right place, i have high expectations for him'."

jaune just took in the information, not even on his best dreams ozpin would have high expectations from him. "i didn't understand what he meant on that day, but now i can see." he stepped closer and put an hand on jaune's shoulder. "you did well jaune arc, for what you did, we will be eternally thankful." he said taking a step back and performing a salutation, just like ironwood, all the other soldiers saluted him.

"wow, it's an great honor, thank you gene-" suddenly his eyes shifted back to blue, his hair came to blonde with the extra length vanishing, the aura skirt and the bandages vanished as well leaving him with an destroyed jeans, the dark aura that leaved his body gathered in a small sphered before it took form of crocea mors.

"GHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!"

an deafening scream of pain shocked them, the blonde knight fell back on the ground screaming and convulsing in pain.

"JAUNE!!" they all screamed.

"GET AN MEDIC HERE NOW!!" ironwood commanded, the teenargers gathered around the screaming blonde, his body was having continuous spasms, his back was arched and his eyes were wide with tears flowing off them, to jaune it was like his whole body was covered in magma, his skin was burning, he felt like he would melt at any second.

"JAUNE WHATS WRONG!?" pyrrha kneeled and held his head, tears pouring her eyes, jaune's eyes shifted to her, he tried to hold the screams to say something but it was useless. "open up!" an pair of atlesian medics came to jaune's aid, the backed up except for pyrrha who refused to leave him. "miss, please back up!" the woman said but pyrrha didn't budge.

"pyrrha, please let go!" nora said while qrow and ironwood came in and pulled her but she struggled against their hold. "NO! JAUNE! JAUNE!" she called, in the middle of his convulsions he looked back to her, his aura started to become unstable flaring and shifting spasmodically.

"it doesn't work, we already injected enough anesthesia to take down a elephant, but his body is rejecting it!" one of the medics said, his aura shone brighter to the point that the medics started to back up covering their eyes. "GHAAAARG...PYRRHA!!" he called her e pyrrha pushed qrow and ironwood away rushing to him and kneeling on his side.

he gripped her hand tightly, she put both her hands around his as tears poured her eyes. "i'm here jaune, im here!" she said, her hands started to glow faintly red, her aura started to flow into his body, both auras started to mix until jaune's white aura became pinkish and settled down slowly, his screaming became faint and weak before it stopped, he felt his world slowly going black, the last thing he saw was the red haired spartan crying and calling his name.

...

"GHAARGH" jaune shot up breathing heavily, he took several deep breaths before he calmed down, he looked around, he was in a plain field lying below a large tree, his eyes started to roam around trying to discover where he was.

"you're really stubborn don't you..." jaune flinched at the familiar voice and turned around facing an familiar monochromatic zanpakutou. "...jaune." white zangetsu grinned.

"zangetsu!? you're here? wait, does that means i'm in dangai again?" he asked and zangetsu shook his head. "no, this place is where the souls of the original shinigamis rest along with their zanpakutou." he said.

"really?" jaune asked incredulous and zangetsu nodded. "see for yourself." zangetsu said.

coming towards him were thirteen people clad in shinigami robes just like his, except that they all had white robes over the black shihakusho. "these are the past shinigamis, the ones who gave you strength on your final battle with salem." jaune stood silent looking amazed at them.

"hello jaune, im retsu unohana and this is minazuki, it's a pleasure to meet you." the woman with dark braided hair said and bowed slightly along with her zanpakuto who had an snake-like body and had an green cape covering most of it.

"you look strong, lets fig-" the tall man with spiky hair using an eyepatch was saying until unohana gave him a punch on his head but still maintaining an sweet smile. "i mean, im zaraki kenpachi." he said. "and i'm nozarashi!" an small girl with pink hair clinging on his shoulder said.

"PADAMO-ehem-i mean, it's an honor to meet you young man, i am genryusai yamamoto, and my zanpakuto is ryujin jakka, although, he's a bit shy, he doesn't like to show up to new people." said an elderly man with a looooong white beard.

"yo, im ichimaru gin, my good friend shinsou is making company to ryujin jakka, so he can't be here now, but it's nice to meet you anyway." said an man with silver hair and a fox-like grin plastered on his face.

"it's an great honor jaune arc, i am sajin komamura, and this is my partner tengen." bowed respectfully an wolf faunus along with an tall red-skinned man with blue hair and fire on his mouth.

"heyyy, im shunsui kyoraku, nice to meet you jaune, these are my dear friends katen kyokotsu." said lazily an man with brown hair tied in a ponytail and with an stubble on his jaw, on his side where two girls clad in purple and with an eyepatch one with an childish appearance while the other had an more mature form.

"it's an honor that you meet me, i am mayuri kurotsuchi, and this is my useless assistant ashisogi jizo." said an white man with blue hair raising what looked like an yellow baby with butterfly wings.

"it's really nice to meet you jaune, im jushiro ukitake, and these are sogyo no kotowari." an man with a gentle smile and long white hair said with an pair of little boys with blue hats on his side.

"soi fon, don't forget because i won't tell you twice, and this is suzumebachi." an girl with short dark hair said with an small bumblebee girl flying around her.

"toshiro hitsugaya, it's a pleasure to know you jaune arc, this is my partner daiguren hyourinmaru." said blankly an short boy with white spiky hair with a tall man with blue hair and an ice 'x' across his face.

"i am byakuya kuchiki, and this is senbonzakura." said a tall imposing man with dark hair who was looking down to him, on his side was an man clad in brown and purple armor with an japanese mask and a long ponytail.

"nice to meet you jaune, im rukia, rukia kuchiki and this is my partner sode no shira-SODE NO SHIRAYUKI!!" an short girl with black hair and an strand falling down on her face was saying until she caught vision of her zanpakuto making out with white zangetsu. "give us a break okay, none of us gets in the way when you and ichigo are having your private affairs." white zangetsu said and resumed to make out with the pale blue haired zanpakutou leaving an extremely red rukia silent.

"let them be, they don't see eachother in a whole year." ichigo said putting an hand on rukia's shoulder, she huffed in annoyance and crossed her arms. "whatever." she said making ichigo chuckle.

He leaved rukia and stepped closer to jaune. "jaune right? im ichigo, ichigo arc, and i think you already know our zanpakutou." they shook hands and jaune nodded with an awkward smile. "yeah, i had one painful year to know him well." he said and ichigo chuckled again.

"he was pretty rough in your training, but i would say that it was worth it, don't you think?" jaune nodded. "if wasn't because of this power i wouldn't be able to save pyrrha, i don't even like to imagine how the situation would have ended if i haven't awakened this side of me." he said a bit gloomy, but ichigo then patted his shoulder. "then it's good that you awakened it right?" he asked with as small smile.

Jaune answered with a short nod. "yeah, and also, thank all of you for helping me on the final battle against salem." he said, he watched as some of them raised eyebrows, others chuckled, others laughed and byakuya sighed.

"jaune arc." he turned to the stern man called byakuya. "the power you used in the end against salem, indeed had the remainings of our strength, but these leftovers were nothing compared with your energy, you could've defeated her even without our energy." byakuya concluded. "but it was better this way, if he used only his energy he would've lost his powers just like me." ichigo said propping an curious expression from the blonde shinigami.

"you lost your powers?" ichigo turned back to him and answered. "in that time yes, but thats an story for another day, after you used the final getsuga tenshou, your energy hit zero and disabled your transformation, the only thing that blocked the accumulated pain from the training you had in dangai, you were going to get through a lot of pain for a few days, you were lucky that your girlfriend was there." ichigo explained.

jaune's face lit up slightly. "s-she's not my girlfriend...at least not yet, but what pyrrha has to do with it?" he asked and retsu stepped in.

"she soothed your soul, the backfire from the training was causing you a lot of pain, but the pain was in your soul, not on your body, that's why the sedatives didn't worked, an cure for the soul isn't the same for the body, but there's nothing more soothing for an pained and disturbed soul then love." she said smiling sweetly as the boy blushed again.

"when that girl let her aura into you, your soul connected with hers for an moment and you could feel all the care and affection that she had for you, that helped to ease your pain and consequently make it stop, you entered in a minor coma as consequence, but nothing serious, when you wake up it probably would have past one week or two, ohh and don't forget to thank your girlfriend for doing that, if she didn't you would probably have died of pain, or you would feel that pain for days straight, but i think it's like they say, love can fix even the more damaged soul, don't you think zaraki?" she asked turning to the tall man who looked away.

"if you say so." jaune could swear that he saw his face starting to get red, but maybe it was only his imagination. "KENNY!! YOUR FACE IS ALL RED!!!" or not.

"well, continuing, just like retsu said, you're actually in a state of minor coma, you would just sleep through it, but we thought it was better if we brought you here to do this." ichigo said and jaune arched an eyebrow. "do what?" he asked, ichigo stepped back, all the shinigamis bowed to him and followed. "thank you for finishing what we started."

That let jaune startled, and surprised as well. "W-what are you talking about?" He asked and genryusai followed. "many centuries ago, we started a war with aizen, we fought him and his espadas, in the end we killed all of them, but we made an mistake." he explained.

"we were so focused in aizen and the espadas that we forgot about salem." toshiro continued.

"she waited until the remaining shinigamis were weak and defenseless to attack." soi fon said ashamedly.

"we couldn't avoid being defeated by her." shunsui said sadly.

"we made part of our mission, we killed aizen, but salem was still alive." jushiro said.

"we died leaving back an unfinished mission." byakuya said.

"an mission that we didn't had hopes to be finished, humans are strong and smart, but not enough to face salem." gin said, his grin lowered for just an frame of an second.

"there was no hope." retsu said looking down.

"we knew that sooner or later, she would conquer the world." zaraki said.

"it was an immutable fact." mayuri added.

"at least, that's what we thought." sajin said.

"when you showed up you changed everything." rukia said opening an small smile.

"me and rukia had an son before dying, we never knew that the shinigami powers would remain in the bloodline, but when we saw you we knew that you could defeat her, we knew that you could finish what we started, and now thanks to you, our souls can rest in peace knowing that salem is no more." ichigo said.

all of them started to vanish slowly. "thank you jaune arc, for finish what these shinigami couldn't." ichigo said, jaune's eyes widened as he watched them slowly fading away. "thank you for everything." they all said in sync as their bodies vanished.

...

"ughh..." jaune groaned lowly raising an hand and resting it over his eyes rubbing them gently, he pulled his hand away and opened his eyes, staring at the grayish blue ceiling, he let his head fall to the left and saw an wall with the exact same color as the ceiling along with an big horizontal window showing the clear morning sky along with the clouds passing closely to it.

Jaune tried to stand up to get closer but an weigh on his right arm prevented him from doing it, he shifted his gaze and it landed on the red haired spartan dressed in more casual clothes, just an simple black shorts and an plain red blouse, her hair was free from its usual ponytail, letting it cascate down her cheeks as she let out small soft breaths.

He couldn't help as an small smile formed on his lips at the sight of the girl he loved so much sleeping peacefully and clinging on his arm, an image of his last moments ran through his head, her face was filled with an terrified expression as he cried out of pain, she must've kept him company while he was off, just how long has he been off?

"hmm...jaune...?" He watched as the spartan shifted a bit, slowly opening her eyes and saying in a sleepy voice. "hey pyrrha." he said lowly, her eyes widened instantly. "JAUNE!!!" she instantly jumped on him wrapping her arms around his neck. "i was so worried." her voice was trembling, just like herself.

Jaune wrapped his arms around her and stroke her hair soothingly. "i'm here and i'm fine, don't worry." he said while she cried silently with her face buried on the crook of his neck, he held her for what felt like an eternity, but soon enough she stopped, propped herself on her elbows and wiped away the tears that stained her face.

"you okay?" he asked in a soft tone. "shouldn't i be the one asking this? you've been out for two weeks, what happened?" she asked 'two weeks, just like retsu said' he thought shortly. "i can answer that, but can you take your elbow off my ribs first, its kinda uncomfortable." he said sheepishly.

Pyrrha looked at her own position, she was laying over him, her face lit up as she got out of him sitting on the edge of the bed. "i-im sorry." she only heard him chuckling, she turned to him, her face still scarlet. "don't be, i don't mind, it's just that some parts of my body are still sore, but my arm is free if you still want to use it." he patted his right arm, pyrrha's face managed to get even redder, was this guy really jaune arc?

"the clock is ticking." he said with an playful smile and started to slowly retreat his arm, but was stopped by the red haired girl that landed on it, her face was so red that she could make a tomato get envy, she was tense just like an wooden plank, he sighed and started to stroke her hair soothingly, that seemed to help her to relax a bit.

"where are we?" he asked. "one of general ironwood's battleships, we're heading back to vale after we went to atlas to get supplies and gather more personal to help with vale's restoration." she said and he nodded, even though he couldn't understand why his stomach didn't try to spill all its contents already.

"jaune..." she called, he looked back at the spartan who had an concerned expression. "what happened to you?" she asked and he took a deep breath. "well, how can i start..." he wondered while she fixed her eyes on his.

"what happened to me was an consequence of using my shinigami powers for the first time." he said.

She then raised an questioning eyebrow. "what is shinigami?" she asked and he sighed. "right, you don't know about that, i think i'll have to tell you from the beginning to make sense, but it's an loooong story, do you want to hear it?" she nodded and he sighed again. "well, it all started when you put me on that rocket locker..."

...

Jaune explained everything to her, how he met white and zangetsu, his year in dangai, his training and about the other shinigamis, pyrrha was terrified to know how much he got through in one year but also happy with his development, but she stood silent hearing his story, eventually she relaxed completely on his arm and unconsciously rested her own arm over his chest.

"...and after ichigo said his farewells along with the other shinigamis i woke up." he concluded his story and hear an small sniff, he locked his gaze on her who had slightly wet eyes. "pyrrha? what's wrong?" he asked softly.

"you got through too much just to save us, you shouldn't have done it." she said weakly. "don't say that, i would get through that all over again if it meant protecting you." he said wholeheartedly with a warm smile and an red crossed her cheeks. "w-well, not only me." he raised an eyebrow at the statement.

"i mean, after what happened, you became the savior, you saved every single person in remnant, i think you finally became the hero you always wanted to be, some people even started to call you 'the hero of remnant." she said.

"yeah, i think so." he said with an small smile, although this smile was more uncomfortable then she thought it would be. "what's wrong? i thought you would love to know that you're now the hero of remnant" she said and he looked away. "i'm really happy with that, it's just that...i don't think i deserve the title of hero." he said

That propped an confused expression from her. "and why wouldn't you deserve it? you saved everyone in remnant from salem, how can you not deserve to be called a hero?" she complained.

He stood silent for a moment before he answered. "thats because i didn't do this to save them." he said shocking the red haired spartan. "i trained for an whole year, getting through nearly impossible challenges, i came back and killed salem along with her minions and freed the world from her influence, but during the whole time, i never thought in doing this to save the people of remnant, to be really honest, they practically never really crossed my mind." his words only furthered the shock evident on pyrrha's face.

"i trained, i fought and i win not because i wanted to protect the people of remnant, during my whole training i crossed with many hardships, but when i needed to overcome them i realized what i was really fighting for." he said an soft smile adorning his face.

"then if you weren't fighting to save remnant, then what were you fighting for?" she asked and he chuckled lightly before turning to her and closing the distance between them and planting an soft kiss on her lips, even if she was surprised, she still kiss reciprocated the kiss, he parted not long after but kept his gaze locked on hers.

"you." he said simply making her eyebrow arch slightly. "all i did, i did for you." with this simple sentence her face lit up in a red tint, but her eyes seemed to get a glimmer that looked just magical. "i almost lost many times during my training, but every time i fell down you would come to my mind, and i would get up right after, all i got through in dangai and on my battle with salem, i did only for you."

At this point pyrrha had already turned into an new level of red, so dark that was almost black. "b-b-but w-w-w-why w-would you d-d-do this only f-for m-m-me? i-i mean, im-" she stammered in her words but he silenced her with a soft peck on her lips. "i did it because i love you pyrrha." he said, right now he could see smoke coming from the top of the spartan's head.

"f-for how long?" she asked and he opened an small smile. "since the ball." he said, her face was still completely red, but now she was eyeing him with curiosity.

"during the ball, when i saw weiss alone after neptune refused to go with her, i thought i would finally have a chance with her, but it was when i saw you heading out of the party, i thought in go see weiss but i just couldn't take seeing you like that." he said with an nostalgic smile while she listened intently.

"after we had our talk and you headed out, i stood there thinking, i wanted to go in there and talk with weiss and maybe have a chance with her, but you wouldn't leave my mind no matter how much i tried, so when neptune came i told him to go talk to weiss while i headed back to the dorm to get my new outfit." He pushed a strand of hair behind her ear with a soft smile.

"in that night i realized two things, the first was that i get completely and utterly fabulous in a dress." pyrrha couldn't help but chuckle at the memory of jaune using an dress. "and the second was that i couldn't stand to see you sad." he said.

Pyrrha couldn't help as an small smile formed on her lips. "after that day i started to notice you more, i tried to shrug it off thinking that it could never happen, i imagined that we would finish beacon and you would find an guy just as badass as you to date, but every time i imagined you with another guy, i started to get gloomy and angry." For one moment, pyrrha thought he was going to pout like a kid, she almost giggled at that.

"i tried to push these feelings away saying things like 'she's just my partner, why am i even against her being with other guys' or 'its just my mind, she could never see me this way', and many other things, but i couldn't help but fall for you more and more, every time i looked at your smile i felt happier, every time you laughed i felt like my heart was about burst inside my chest, it didn't took long for me to realize that i was completely head over heels for you." he let out a small chuckle.

"just imagine, me, jaune arc, the boy with no skill who faked his entry in beacon was in love with pyrrha nikos, the goddess of victory, the invincible girl, someone who was completely out of my level...but even with that colossal gap between us, i couldn't help but feel completely attracted to you, you put me under your spell, and i didn't even wanted to break free, because even if you were out of my league, i was happy in just being near the girl i loved, even without telling it to her." he said sheepishly.

When he looked back at her, he saw her eyes slightly wet. "ah, sorry, i didn't mean to make you sad or make you cry-" he was stopped when her lips locked with his, he was surprised for a moment, his eyes were wide, but soon enough he reciprocated the kiss with the same intensity she was putting on it, she pulled away, her emerald orbs locking with his sapphire ones.

There was a comfortable silence lingering between them, until pyrrha broke it. "i'm not sad, i couldn't be happier." she said with an bright smile.

"ever since i met you, i started to have these feelings, i started to think on you often, whenever i was near you i got nervous, when you opened that goofy smile of yours i felt like i had millions of butterflies on my belly, i never met anyone who made me feel like this before, someone who made me feel special like you did, someone who saw me just as me, your ability of simply ignoring my status and every other thing that made my social life so difficult was one of the things i came to grow most fond of you, how you always cared for me as your friend and teammate, it always made me so happy." she said.

At her words, her own smile seemed to get wider, just like his. "but at some point, i didn't wanted to be just your friend anymore, i wanted more, i wanted to be with you all the time, i wanted to go out with you, i wanted to hold hands with you, i wanted to kiss you and in the end of the day i just wanted to be able to lay down on my bed and snuggle with you, just to feel you close to me…" her smile faltered slightly.

"...but i was afraid, afraid that you would reject me, afraid that if i told you what i felt we wouldn't be friends anymore, and i would lose the person who gave me everything i ever really wanted and even more." her eyes started to get watery again. "i couldn't bear that thought, just imagining the situation made me sad, it almost made me cry whenever i thought on it, so right now, i am happy, im overjoyed, i'm perfect! i'm nowhere near sad, because right now, i'm with the man i love telling him how i really felt during the past year and how much i love him despite he being that clumsy, goofy and dense idiot he was during an good part of the year." tears of joy rolled down her cheeks.

Jaune couldn't help as he released some tears of his own as they both chuckled. "i love you pyrrha." he said with a wide smile. "i love you too jaune." they kissed again, both were in cloud nine, their minds were misted with euphoria, they finally let out what they felt and were accepted by each other, that made both teenagers almost burst in happiness, but they preferred to focus on the kiss.

It started passionate and sweet, but as the time passed it started to get more deep and heated, pyrrha could feel jaune's tongue brushing on her teeth as if it was asking for permission to enter, she gladly accepted and soon they started an fierce wrestle of tongues, their simple and loving kiss had developed into an heated make out session.

Jaune unconsciously started to flip their positions, so he was now hovering above her without breaking the kiss at any moment, his nails digged on the bed sheets to prevent them from going anywhere they shouldn't, he wanted her, he wanted so badly, the feeling of her soft lips pressing on his own, her warm tonge dancing around his and her strong yet delicate hands that started to wander over his bare chest, those things were almost sending him over the edge, it took him all of his self control to not rip off her clothes and ravish her on the spot.

They reluctantly parted away to get some much needed air, a strand of saliva still connecting their tongues, jaune took a moment to admire the girl laying bellow him, her disheveled scarlet hair cascading down her face, her slightly flustered cheeks, her cream soft skin covered in sweat, her long shapely legs rubbing together, her athletic but still curved body, her tantalizing cleavage and his favorite trait about her, her gorgeous emerald eyes, filled with lust and want, did she wanted this just as much as he did?

His answer was pyrrha pulling him back to their make out session, not wasting time and inserting her tongue on his oral cave, not that he minded, he was loving this, even though his self control was getting paper thin. "mhmn.." pyrrha moaned into their kiss as jaune started to grind his hips on hers, but she continued to kiss him heatedly for a few moments before she gathered enough strength to push him away breaking their kiss, jaune would question if wasn't for pyrrha lifting her blouse revealing her bare breasts in their full glory, as soon as she took off her blouse she pulled jaune back to her and continued from where they stopped.

Jaune couldn't help as one of his hands started to wander on her waist, climbing up until he reached to her right breast, he cupped it and gave a light squeeze, prompting an moan from the spartan, jaune then went for her neck planting soft kisses trailing down until he reached her left breast, he brushed his tongue around her erect nipple before he started to suck on it, she let out an loud moan and put her hands on his head, entwining her fingers on his messy blonde locks.

He continued to suck it feverishly occasionally biting her nipple prompting loud moans from the spartan while his right hand gave attention to the other breast, pinching and twisting lightly the erect nipple, he kept on that rhythm until his left hand started to trail down her body, dragging his fingertips across her skin sending an tingling sensation across her whole body until his hand entered her shorts and landed on her moist womanhood.

"ahh...jaune!" he started to move his index and middle finger in circle motions while he stroked her clit with his thumb, pyrrha felt like her mind was turning into putty under his ministrations, she couldn't think about anything else besides everything that he was doing to her and the pressure that was building within her core.

"jaune... i'm almost... there!!" she panted, jaune's mouth let go from her nipple with an wet 'pop', he pulled himself up and returned to make out with pyrrha, he felt her hips bucking in his direction as his fingers worked his magic on her lower lips, it didn't took long to pyrrha let out an muffled cry on their kiss as her body tensed, her fluids soaking his left hand, jaune parted away from her and watched as she panted heavily.

Silence lingered between them as jaune watched pyrrha recover her breath, suddenly, jaune felt one of her hands grip his hardness, he let out an lustfull groan and turned back to pyrrha who had an soft smile directed to him. "i want you jaune, please make me yours." she said softly, he let out some shallow breaths and followed. "are you sure?" he asked only once and she nodded. "i've never been so sure about something in my whole life." she said wholeheartedly, he opened an small smile of his own. "okay."

He helped her to get rid of her shorts and her red panties, so she was now completely naked in front of him, jaune felt his erection throb painfully at the sight, he himself was already naked, he would ask about that later, along with how he didn't noticed that until the present moment, but for now, he was more focused on the matter at hand.

He positioned himself on her entrance and looked at her for confirmation, pyrrha was lost for an moment, she was wondering if all men were on that size, of course she wasn't an specialist, the only real thing she saw before was when she used to take baths with her father, and that was a long time ago, that and the ones she saw on videos on the internet during one of her...researches, but even so she was fairly sure that not all men were that gifted.

She shook her head for a moment to dismiss these thoughts and nodded for him to continue, jaune slowly started to insert himself on her, she hissed slightly at the sensation of her walls being suddenly spreaded for the first time, he progressed slowly until he was fully inside her after ripping what was left of her damaged hymen after so many years of training.

"you okay pyrrha?" he asked giving her some time to get used to his size, she only nodded, a few tears running down her cheeks. "i couldn't be better." she said with an bright smile, jaune lowered himself and captured her lips while pyrrha wrapped her arms around him.

They made out for a few minutes before jaune parted away. "can i start?" he asked and she nodded weakly. "just be gentle, this is my first time doing this." she said meekly looking away, jaune couldn't really believe in his ears, he thought that there was no chance that his gorgeous partner wouldn't have ever done that with another guy, but no, she was still virgin. "wait, does that means that i'm you first guy?" he asked clearly surprised. "the first and last one i'll ever have." she said giving a soft peck on his lips, his lips curved into an small smile. "i love you pyrrha nikos." he said. "and i love you jaune arc." she answered and both resumed to their kissing while jaune slowly removed himself from her, and when he was nearly out, he started to go all the way back inside, jaune let out an grunt while pyrrha hissed slightly at the friction that his movement was causing.

He started slow and steady, but soon he started to pick up the pace, the pained sensation from earlier was now turning into pure pleasure as he penetrated her, his breaths started to become more labored while she moaned, soon he picked up his pace and started to thrust even faster, the lustful feeling inside them grew with each thrust while they moaned eachothers names, sounds of flesh slapping echoed on the room, jaune's pace intensified even more as the minutes passed, not that they had any notion of time at the moment, they were way too occupied with the present for that, they kept on it for what felt like hours, but soon they would hit their peak.

"jaune... i'm almost..." she managed to say between her moans. "yeah... me too." he replied hoarsely, he started to thrust in a frantic pace, faster and faster, pyrrha's voice grew louder as his thrust hit her sensitive spots.

"pyrrha... i'm... cumming!!" he grunted slaming his hips on hers and letting out his load, the sensation of him finishing inside her was more than enough to throw her over the edge with an loud moan, her eyes almost flipping back, jaune let his body fall over her's, feeling her light spasms of pleasure, jaune flipped to the side and pulled pyrrha closer, she rested her head on his chest with an content smile as he pulled a blanket over them.

"that... was amazing." she said taking her breath. "i know, it really felt amazing." he said, not in a much better state. "i love you jaune." she said locking her eyes on his, he gave her an quick peck on her lips and said. "i love you too pyrrha." both of them started to drift asleep when...

"hey p-money, how's vomit bo-HOLY DAMN!!" they both heard yang along with some gasps from their friends. "goddamit" both teenargers grunted, there was going to have loads of teasing for them to handle from now on, well, at least they were together, just like it should be.

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aaaand done, if you managed to get here without puking or crying at how bad this was (sorry, i have low self-esteem) then congrats, let me know what you think about the story and if you want see some jaune centered RWBY prompts my tumblr is @danurso

Thanks for wasting your time reading my fic, until next time.