Of warriors and teenagers

Chapter I: Absolutely natural

Jaune Arc never really thought of himself as an extraordinary perceptive person.

Well, to be fair, he never thought of himself as extraordinary in anything else either. But living in a school designed to train Huntsmen and Huntresses such as Beacon tends to give even someone like him a sense of expecting the... well, unexpectable. Being surrounded by so many ridiculously overpowered and at the same time often random individuals can make you a lot more observant for any oncoming danger. Over the past few months he managed to stay out of any major incidents within the school boundaries. Maybe except for his little backstory with Cardin. Or this „food-fight" in their second semester. Or Yangs rampage when he tripped and accidentally grabbed her hair...

In retrospect, he might've gotten himself into a few more ... inconvenient ... situations than he initially thought. But since he was capable of learning from his mistakes, that was all about to change. He would be prepared for everything Beacon could throw at him from now on. That was what he told himself while turning off his alarm clock in the morning.

This was before something had been ironically thrown directly at him and collided with his poor stomach at full speed of course.

Now, Jaune liked to think of himself as a very calm and collected individual, so his reaction was completely appropriate to the situation he was currently in. He absolutely not screamed the place down and tried to shove the intruder of his personal space off, only to get punched in the face in return. Please, he wasn't that pathetic.

Who are you trying to convince, yourself? Tell you what, it's not working at all.

If not for his Aura, his nose would've been broken for sure. Or the fact that he was more than used to getting punched in the face due to his sparring matches with Cardin. This way, it only freaking hurt. He got the message though and gave up his hopeless and very short-lived battle to achieve freedom in fear of getting punched again.

Damn you, Jaune, and your need to tempt fate. Was all he could think while trying to regain his senses through the pain emitting from his stomach.

„Morning Jauney"

Cried the – now classified as human – cause of his pain, all the while making theirself comfortable on his still aching mid-section. Only now did his still really tired and really dazed brain recommend him to open his eyes, which he slowly obeyed. In front of him – or on top of him, depending from the angle you looked – was sitting no one else than...

...Jaune sighed. Or tried to. And started coughing because of his still burning stomach.

„Morning Nora" he finally brought out. How could anything in the world ever prepare you for the amount of energy and randomness that is Nora Valkyrie.

Nora grinned like a maniac in return. To be fair, it was more or less the way she always grinned, so nothing more maniac than anytime else. At least he hoped so. At this point, Ren was still the only person who could truly see changes in her temper through her smile.

„How you're doing, oh fearless leader?" she finally asked.

Jaune decided to skip the part of asking why she had to punch im in the face, why she shouted her greetings in his ear or why she was even sitting on him in the first place. He already knew her answer. She would pinch his nose and say „Boop". According to Ren, she showed her trust through actions like these.

Yay. He felt so trusted right now.

Getting his mind back to the problem at hand - or at stomach, heh, heh... yeah, he should stop spending time with Yang - he decided to play nice and hopefully avoid any more attacks by the red-head.

„Never felt better, how about you?"

If possible, her grin got even wider.

„I'm great" she exclaimed while throwing her arms in the air and looking at the ceiling, before turning her face back at Jaune.

„You know why?"

Damned, did I forget anything? Jaune wondered, slightly panicked, before gulping and stammering his answer.

„I'm afraid not". At that, Nora's face seemed to fall just in the slightest little bit.

„Do you know what day it is?" At this, Jaune turned his head to his alarm clock.

„Saturday?" he wondered aloud. Why would he even set his alarm on a saturday? Wait, did he set his alarm? He didn't remeber doing so.

„Nora" he started, turning back to the hammer wielding creature of doom.

„Did you set my alarm clock on 5:30 for today?"

Seemingly surprised by his question, Nora cocked her head to the side.

„Why, of course I did, since you forgot to do so yesterday." Jaune could only groan at her response.

„Why would you do that?"

„You really don't remeber?" Nora asked in return, and he could've sworn he heard a tiny little bit of sadness in her usually so bubbly voice.

Just what on Remnant is she talking about? The knight twisted his mind in hope of finding an answer but to no avail.

„I'm sorry Nora, but I have no idea what you're talking..." the rest of his response was stuck in his throat by the sight before him. Nora suddenly appeared to be completely crushed. She gave him the full package, with teary eyes and a quivering lip and all. Monty Oum, did she get lessons from Ruby?

"But I thought you wanted to come along for the X-Ray and Vav release in Vale."

His eyes widened.

"That's today" he practically shouted and managed to bring a smile back to Nora's face, who eagerly nodded at his question. Without thinking, Jaune raised his arms and hugged the orange-haired girl, all the while laughing like a maniac himself. He waited for this release for months. Ever since the producers of the comics anounced a new spin-off for the X-Ray and Vav universe along with a reissue of the very first comics from some 40 years ago, Jaune was determined to get every single edition. While talking to his teammates and team RWBY it turned out that Nora, Ruby and Yang were enthusiastic readers of the franchise as well and so they decided to go to Vale together.

And now, if not for Nora he would've totally forgotten one of the most important days in his nearly eighteen year old life. That's why he was currently hugging the redhead to death.

...

Now that he thought about it, she had been extremely quiet ever since his little surprise hug started. Turning his face down to look at her, only to see her looking directly back at him with her trademark grin, Jaune suddenly realised just how close they were. He blushed profoundly and let go of her immediately, before stuttering some incoherent excuses. Since when did he start to randomly hug his friends? That was totally unlike him. Were Nora's antics starting to rub off on him?

Hearing her teammate stutter, the ginger-headed girl in question started to giggle again.

"You're grip was way more firm than I thought, oh fearless leader. Seems like you're training is paying of." was all she seemed to have to say to the matter.

"Huh?" Came Jaune's very intelligent response. Did he actually get lucky and she wouldn't throw him out of the window or break his legs? Now that he thought about it, it would be rather weird if Nora of all people would have a problem with others being close to her. Then again, she used to be pretty random most of the time, but she usually only got clingy with people she knew. And trusted, according to Ren.

Once again, Yay.

"And don't worry, your behaviour is absolutely natural for someone your age."

"..."

"..."

"What!?"

Just how many turns was their conversation going to take? And even more important, how on Remnant did it take this turn to begin with?

"That's what Renny always used to say to me when I was hugging other people and their reaction was somewhat weird." Nora finally replied, all the while still smiling.

Jaune mentally facepalmed. That absolutely sounded like something Nora would do. He would spare himself the attempt to explain the reasons for his sudden outburst to her. Right after this thought however, another realisation hit him.

Ren. Pyrrha. Why did no one of them say anything the whole time? There was no way the both of them could've stayed asleep during their little exchange. Looking to his left, Jaune was surprised to see that Ren was in fact still asleep, probably getting used to sleep through Nora's antics years ago. Turning his head to his right he managed to get a look of a very peeved looking Pyrrha. Wow, whatever was she so angry about? However, the moment she noticed him looking at her, she smiled warmly again. Huh, strange. He smiled back and wanted to greet her, only to realise that Nora was still talking.

Whoops, seems like I'm getting better in tuning out her rambling as well.

Luckily, what she said seemed to be of no importance in the end since she spotted Pyrrha getting up and with a shouted "Pyrrha" proceeded to tackle the spartan down.

"Good Morning, Nora" Pyrrha replied warmly. "I hope you slept well."

"You bet" the hammer-wielder replied happily. "I just woke up Jauney for the X-Ray and Valve release today, but he was so soft and warm that I had to stay on him a little longer."

"Sorry for have woken you up, Pyr." Jaune chose this moment to apologize, before Nora's words sunk in.

"Hey!"

"It's quite alright, I wanted to stand up early and train anyway." Pyrrha replied, seemingly in a much better mood than just seconds before. How she managed to stay so friendly and calm while being tackled to the ground was completely beyond Jaune. Nora, however, didn't seem to be too eager about keep sitting on Pyrrha anyway.

"I don't know, somehow you're not as comfortable as Jauney. I guess you're just not as soft." she mused aloud.

"Hey!"

Pyrrha looked back at Jaune, still seemingly unaffected by the girl on top of her and started to smirk.

"Well, we're working on it." she finally replied.

It was his time to crack a smile now. Oh you bet they were.

Every.

Single.

Evening.

He never felt that much pain than after the first week of their trainig. Except maybe for the second one. But now, after a few months, all his work finally started to pay of and he was certain that it would continue to do so. Especially when all of their future training sessions will be as intense as the one yesterday evening. In the end, Jaune was so tired that Pyrrha had to carry his weapons for him to prevent him from collapsing. The moment he finally hit the bed, he was out like a light. Which might be why he forgot about the release in the first place.

"No way!" Nora interrupted his train of thoughts again.

"I don't want to lose my pillow" He would've objected on being called a pillow, weren't it for the once again erupting pain in his stomach.

Nora, now on top of him again, stared down on him completely serious, pointed a finger at him and declared:

"You, Jaune Arc have hereby to proclaim that you will never be as uncomfortable as Pyrrha."

"..."

"..."

And just like that, Beacon kept throwing things at him that he clearly wasn't able to dodge. Probably never would be. He looked at Pyrrha for help, but she seemed to be completely content with watching him in his dilemma and just smiled back at him. In the end, it was a male voice coming to his help.

"Who's never gonna be what now?" asked the final member of his team.

"Renny" was all reply he got before he as well got tackled by the orange-haired body of madness. However, looking his way, Jaune could clearly see the smirk the stoic boy send at him, and had to refuse the urge to roll his eyes. Was everyone going to make fun of him today?

Probably.

However, since Nora seemed to be occupied with crushing Ren and babbling about her morning at the moment, Jaune took his chance to stand up and slowly make his way to the bathroom...

"Oh, and Jauney" just to stop dead in his tracks. Damned. He nearly made it. He slowly turned around once more to face the young Valkyrie, only to find her in front of him. Like, directly in front of him. Grinning. He stumbled back two steps all the while getting red in the face again because of just how close she was to him.

"don't forget, it's absolutely natural." And with that, the red-haired devil closed the door.

Wha...? Is she saying things like that on purpose?

Jaune was standing at his side of the door for at least a minute, opening and closing his mouth before his brain rebooted. He finally managed to do his usual morning routine before leaving the bathroom, so Nora could get ready as well. Thankfully, she spared him any out of place comments this time and just closed the door.

Turning back around to his other teammates, he was faced with two faces of amusement and curiosity. Pyrrha clearly still fighting the urge to laugh, while even Ren couldn't completely suppress the smile that crept on his face. He was the first to talk.

"Tough morning, Jaune?" At that, Jaune could only groan, before letting himself fall on his bed.

"How do you keep up with her all the time? I just had to do so for around five minutes and nearly lost it." He probably would have, if not for his calmness and collectedness.

You're trying it again. Still isn't working.

"Oh, you know..." Ren interrupted his thoughts with a now clear to see smirk on his face . "... when you're around Nora for a while, feelings like that become absolutely natural."

Jaune deadpanned at his stoic friend, whose smirk didn't leave his face and glanced at his partner, who barely managed to suppress her laughter on their friends attempt to be funny.

"And here I thought Yang's jokes were bad." at this, and at the sight of Ren's face falling, Pyrrha lost her fight and started to laugh quietly. Jaune himself managed to crack a smile himself while looking at the ceiling.

"I'm completely serious." came Ren's unexpected response, at which Pyrrha finally bursted out into laughter and Jaune soon followed suit after taking a surprised look at the now seemingly slightly bewildered boy. Letting his laughter die down slowly into a content smile, the knight let his thoughts wander while waiting for Nora to return so they could get breakfast and meet up with...

... his eyes widened in shock, as he realised who he will meet up with in a few minutes.

Was he totally crazy? There was no way he was able to survive a whole day alone with Nora, Ruby and Yang. That's practically asking for your own funeral. He groaned once more, before hearing the bathroomdoor burst open, revealing a completely dressed and ready to go Nora.

"Come on, oh fearless leader, time to get pancakes."

Taking a look to his two remaining teammates, who still seemed to be happy not to be the center of Nora's attention, he sighed one last time before getting up. Today was supposed to be one of the best days of his life after all.

"Allright Nora, let's get going."

"Yay" came the immediate response, before she shot out of the room at incredible speed. Seriously, was she taking lessons from Ruby?

He was able to shoot one last glance at his comrades giving him thumbs up's and encouraging smiles before he closed the door and followed his friend down the hall towards breakfast.

I guess there just are a few things, that not even Bacon can prepare you for.

Back in the dorm room, two people remained sitting in their respective beds, still thinking about the rather unexpected way this morning played out so far.

Finally, the read headed girl turned to look at her black haired teammate with a still amused but slightly worried glance.

"You think he's gonna be alright?"

The black haired boy looked back at her with an unreadable expression, seemingly thinking about her question, before it turned into a twisted smile of sorts.

"Probably."

A/N Hello everyone and welcome to my very first fanfic "Of warriors and teenagers". If you're currently reading this then you managed to fight yourself through the whole story, which I'm very grateful for. However, at this point I'd like to ask a few favors of you. First of all I would love to know whether you liked the story or not. Did it make you laugh? Or did I completely ruin any funny part of it with futile rambling? Secondly, since english is not my native language, I would appreciate any hints on any possible misstake I made throughout the story, from grammatical errors down to wrong comma placement or weird phrases that you just wouldn't use in english. (The same of course refers to this Autors Note or even the description of the story). And last but not least, do you think I should continue writing on this story? Or is it completely awful and should've never be published in the first place? And if I should continue it, should I do so with continuing the "storyline" which I accidentally set up myself? Or with just doing a few disconnected drabbles like I originally intented to? I'd really appreciate any form of help and opinion on these matters, though I do hope that you will go easy on me and not tear my story into peaces without actually giving any advice on how to do better. That being said, thank you all very much and have a nice day.

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