Jaune lays down on his bed that he gained once they got their foothold in Mistral, his mind occupied with heavy thoughts. It had been a week since RWBY got back together and he has never felt worse. Seeing them celebrate the fact their team was whole, hurt him. How could they celebrate that? They knew damn well that he lost his partner and the only person who supported him in everything. Even Ruby was too busy celebrating to even care. Ren and Nora had each other and they had no real need for him at this point. He grows angrier and angrier as he follows this train of thought, up to the point where he gets up and heads outside, equipped with nothing but his weapon and his pants. He heads to a little training area and starts up the program for training, setting it to the highest possible difficulty he could before going to work. He fights for hours, so angry that he barely notices the cuts appearing on his body from the training bot's weapons.
Yang can't help but follow the sound of metal clashing. She walks towards the sound, dragging her team along with her since they happen to be walking back to their rooms after the party. They all end up intrigued by the sound and they open up the door to the training room to find a bleeding Jaune surrounded by dozens of crushed, maimed, and massacred bots.
"Jaune!" Ruby screamed out and rushed down to her friend, hitting the emergency stop button on the panel on her way.
Jaune looks at her, his eyes more like a dull grey than their usual bright blue, "What do you want Ruby? Can't you see I'm training?"
"You call this training? It's like you're trying to get yourself killed!" Ruby shouts. "I can't believe you'd do this after all we went trough together."
"All we went through? All WE went through?" Jaune laughs soullessly.
Yang walks up behind her sister, a neutral look on her face despite her quickly growing frustration. "What's the problem, Vomit Boy? Why are you getting my little sis worked up?"
Weiss and Blake walk up as well, each nodding their agreement.
Jaune's laughter stops and he slowly looks them all dead in the eye. "You don't know me or anything I go through. All I am to you is Vomit Boy, or Dolt, or whatever you want to call me. I'm just the weak, goofy blonde guy, right? You could care less what happened to me, hell, you just care because Ruby does."
"You know that's not true, Jaune!" Ruby responds with passion.
"Just ask them yourself, Ruby. Ask them the truth." Jaune's voice remains cold and unfitting to what they know him as.
Ruby turns to her team, "You guys care about Jaune, right?"
Blake looks towards the ground, her mouth shut, and Yang seems speechless. Eventually Weiss speaks up.
"We only deal with Jaune because you're friends with him Ruby. We don't really care about him all that much." She speaks with her usual chill.
"What about you, Yang? He helped me even when you wouldn't." Ruby looks to her older sister, her eyes showing her desperate for reassurance.
"I'm thankful for that, sure, but he was rather useless, wasn't he? I mean, he is just Vomit boy." She cringes slightly and looks away.
Ruby looks back towards Jaune, "I still like you, Jaune. Even if my team doesn't care."
Jaune chuckles lifelessly, "You'll survive just fine without me, Ruby. I'm the weak one, right? I'm just VOMIT BOY!" He sneers as her emphasizes the nickname.
"Who do you think you are, talking to my sister that way?" Yang approaches him, her fists ready to go.
"What are you gonna do, punch a guy without aura or cry and run to your room for weeks? Cause both mean you're just as weak as I remember. Calling me weak is a bit hypocritical since you whined and moped around after your team's resident coward ran away and you lost your arm due to a dumb decision." Jaune replies, an evil smirk looking out of place on his face though his eyes seem to ne growing a purple hue.
Yang clenches her fist and blows up at him, punching his chest and sending him flying back with a small explosion while Ruby screams and rushes to check on him. She tries to help him up and he just pushes her away, getting up and coughing up some blood before grinning evilly at Yang.
"You just confirmed it. I hope you're all satisfied with yourselves." He says as he begins walking away from them with a small limp, clutching his bruised chest.
"Wait, Jaune!" Ruby rushes after him and blocks his way.
He looks down at her with a small glare, "Move, Ruby. I'm leaving, and you can't stop me." As he says this, small purple sparks begin to come off him. His eyes are deep purple at this point and his aura is regenerating.
"No, I can't let you go off and kill yourself." Ruby respond, standing strong
Jaune pushes past her and Yang blocks his path instead.
"I'm sorry for punching you, Vomi- I mean Jaune." Yang says.
"Just fuck off, Yang. You can't stop me from leaving and you're only doing this for Ruby." He growls, moving to shove past her.
Yang grabs his arm and she screams in pain as she feels the most painful shock of her life, the electricity frying the circuits in her arm and burning her hand badly whilst ruining her hair and knocking her unconscious. Jaune continues walking back towards his room and Ruby watches him go while the rest of her team rushes Yang to the infirmary.
Jaune grunts as he slips on his armor, leaving the hoodie behind and just rolling with a long-sleeve tee underneath. He puts the new Crocea Mors on his back before crushing his scroll and grabbing the pack he prepared in case they got a mission. Seeing as he had everything her need he set off into the night, leaving nothing but his hoodie and his crushed scroll on his bed for them to find in the morning. He wasn't going to be seeing them for a long time and he sure as hell knew where he was going. A dark look grew on his face as he headed into the city, he had a certain Scorpion faunus to find.
Author's note:
Hey guys, Rockstar potato here. I just want to give thanks if you're reading this story of mine. I finally built up some motivation to write again since I felt that Jaune (my favorite character) wasn't getting what he deserved in RWBY so rather than bitch and moan, I'm writing a fanfic. This story will be dark and I will admit that updates may be sparse, but I'm not giving up on it. I will say that a Beta/collaborator would be awesome since I'm not sure I can make this go where I want to, on my own. I'm always happy to reply to comments and PMs and I love constructive criticism, so feel free to message me or whatever. Enjoy your day or night since I have no idea when you're gonna read this.
P.S. This story will be really dark and angst at moments so don't expect a good-guy Jaune story.
