Pyrrha had always been very studious, she had always been very focused at the goals set in front of her, and never deviated from that course. Indeed it was because of this discipline that made her into the star athlete that she was. All of this was exactly she couldn't figure why she had such a hard time paying attention in class lately, her thoughts kept drifting to her friends in Team RWBY and what had happened.
It had taken about two weeks for Team RWBY to settle back in to their normal schedule after what had happened in the Vale docks. From what it sounded like, Blake ran away for a couple of days, met up with a guy named Sun and were tracking the White Fang together. For whatever reason they were pursuing them, it seemed to have worked because they managed to stop a major heist orchestrated by none other than the White Fang accompanied by the fugitive Roman Torchwick who had been seen all over the news for other robberies.
It did seem a bit odd to Pyrrha though, until now all the news reports showed that biggest target of the robberies had been small little Mom and Pop Dust shops, nothing nearly the size of Schnee Co. Dust Cargo shipments. The Dust in those shipments were mostly used to charge Vale's power grid, what could someone possibly need that much Dust for? It was not only that, but the fact that Roman and his thugs had the power to undertake such a heist is what worried her even more so. Pyrrha's brow furrowed as she tried to think of a reason why this could be happening.
Jaune, who was trying his hardest to pay attention in class mostly failing, looked at his partner, who he had insisted that she sit next to him because he said it was important for his morale. Jaune thought he had been particularly clever with that and reminded himself to get a high-five from Ren later, however unenthusiastic Ren might be about it.
When Jaune looked at Pyrrha he noticed that there was something off with her today because she wasn't diligently taking notes like she normally was, he wondered if anything was wrong and decided to speak up, "Hey you okay Pyrrha?" he asked as quietly as he could, which admittedly was not that actually that quiet.
Pyrrha, startled a bit from being taken out of her deep thought responded by giving her partner a forced smile, "Ya I'm fine." She tried again to focus on the class they were in currently, Principles of Combat Techniques taught by Professor Goodwitch. The class had its on and off days, Pyrrha enjoyed the days where they were actually able to duel instead of having a lecture like today.
Jaune was put off a little by that seemingly cold statement and wondered why women always did that, it wasn't like he was trying to interrogate them or anything, he decided to try again "Because if I can do anything to-" Jaune was unable to finish the sentence as Goodwitch spun around threw the piece of chalk she was writing with which beamed Jaune straight in the forehead and pointed to the bolded 'NO TALKING DURING CLASS' on the board, then continued with the lesson. The rest of the class wasn't sure if they should laugh or be afraid, Jaune was sitting at least 30 feet away from her and she had hit the her target dead center.
Pyrrha couldn't help but give off a muffled chuckle, Jaune looked dumbfounded at what just happened. Pyrrha gave him a pat on the back before returning her attention the board, still with a smile on her face.
Jaune frowned, he didn't like being the fool on display for everyone's amusement. As much as he had tried to stop that from happening since coming to Beacon, it hadn't worked out particularly well.
Plus Pyrrha was the last person he wanted to think he was an idiot, she was his partner after all not to mention the most beautiful girl he's ever seen, as Jaune's eyes flicked back to his partner he was still not quite sure how he had won that jackpot. But still, how could Pyrrha not think he was idiot? She knew that he wasn't even smart enough to get accepted into Beacon legitimately, and on top on of that she felt that he was doing so poorly that she had to intervene. Pyrrha had said it wasn't like that and that everyone needs help from time to time, but with the amount of time she had already spent on him to make him up to par with the standard that is expected of team leader qualified as more than just 'time to time.'
Jaune wasn't a complete moron, it was obvious that Pyrrha didn't think he was up to snuff to be Leader of Team JNPR yet. All he had to do was prove her wrong, which was made harder by incidents like getting hit with chalk by a teacher in the middle of class.
As Pyrrha was trying for the umpteenth time to adjust her attention to Professor Goodwitch she noticed the red and white duo of team RWBY passing notes, well more of Ruby passing notes to Weiss then poking her until the heiress would get agitated enough to look. Weiss looked at the note and then angrily scribbled something back that was still probably perfect calligraphy and gave it to Ruby.
This continued until Professor Goodwitch noticed that class time was up "All right students, we will stop there for today, remember that we will have another dueling session on Wednesday, class dismissed."
"Hey what do you think was going on with Ruby and Weiss? Discussing what happened a few weeks ago?" Pyrrha asked Jaune as they gathered their things to leave for lunch.
"That would be my guess." Jaune responded having paid attention to the ordeal as well because he couldn't focus on the lecture either. "Do you-" Jaune stopped and rephrased his question to a statement to seem more confident "-I mean I think we should ask them about it, it seemed important enough to make Weiss angry." Jaune deduced putting his hand on his chin.
Pyrrha gave a short laugh "Ya, but what doesn't make Weiss angry." …wait, she had just said that out loud hadn't she. Dammit.
"I suppose you're right." Jaune agreed as he zipped up his pack, he was the only one he knew who actually carried one, most students took notes on their scrolls but Jaune always preferred normal paper.
Pyrrha smiled at Jaune as he swung the backpack around his back. She definitely appreciated that she could entrust Jaune with little bits of information like this that she wouldn't dream of telling anyone else. Since Jaune had confided his darkest secret to her, she felt like she could be less guarded around him. Even before then Jaune always had a good aura about him, which is one of the reasons she picked him to be her partner. It was not as if she had any malicious intent behind what she said, but you have to watch every word you say when you are famous, something she wished she never was.
Once they were both ready to go Jaune gestured with his arm for Pyrrha to go ahead of him, "Ladies first." To this Pyrrha just playfully rolled her eyes and proceeded to exit the lecture hall.
Team RWBY and half of Team of JNPR gathered at their usual table and had already started eating by the time Jaune and Pyrrha entered the dining hall. Jaune had stolen Pyrrha's binder was trying to run away with it while Pyrrha chased him.
Pyrrha finally caught up to Jaune and yanked the out of his hand from behind, this sudden movement surprised him and caused him to turn and lose his footing making his back collide with the ground. Pyrrha, having been running close behind Jaune also tripped and fell on top of him with a thud. Noticing the embarrassing position they were in as she lay on top of him she immediately shot up completely red in the face, "I-I'm sorry!" she said as she helped him up.
"I-It's okay, I should have w-watched where I was g-going," He responded almost shaking while scratching the back of his head. Jaune knew that looking where he was going had little to do with him falling, but he was too flustered to think of anything else. Jaune then quickly got into the lunch line while Pyrrha dusted herself off.
"Honestly, how have those two not had sex yet?" Yang joked from back at the table having watched the whole thing.
"Maybe they don't want to ruin their friendship." Ruby said in response to Yang rhetorical question.
"How do you ruin friendship with sex?! That's like saying ice cream is ruined by putting sprinkles on it!" Yang nudged Blake in the ribs, who then looked up quizzically, not having paid attention to the conversion.
Ruby glared at her sister, now she wouldn't be able to eat ice cream for at least a week.
"Well I think they should" Nora added, her voice rising, "I mean they both clearly care for each other and pretty much go everywhere and do everything together! How could Jaune possibly think that friendship was the only thing that is going on here?! He definitely should have figured this out years ago!" She crossed her arms in a huff.
"Nora, we've only been at Beacon for a few months…" Ruby replied confused, being the only one besides Ren not to catch the hidden meaning behind Nora's statement.
"Right. I knew that." Nora took a big bite out of her sandwich to keep herself from talking, Blake looked up from her book and gave her a knowing smirk.
Weiss' face was in her palm, she still couldn't believe how crass all of her friends were. "Can we please stop talking about this" Weiss groaned.
Yang raised an eyebrow "Ya and talk about what princess?"
"I don't care, anything." Weiss said while she massaged the bridge of her nose with her thumb and index finger, she had long since stop caring about people calling her that nickname.
"Okay." Yang seizing the opportunity "This one time, I caught Weiss staring at Ruby in the middle of the night while she was sleeping and-" Yang was stopped by a lunch tray that had been rocketed at her face.
It was at this moment that Pyrrha and Jaune arrived at the table. "So" Jaune sat down with his tray of food, "What is everyone talking about?" Pyrrha finished.
"NOTHING!" Weiss said a little too fast.
Yang made a comment under breath about how they even finish each other's sentences.
"A-Actually," Ruby spoke up taking her focus off Weiss "Now that we are all here I think there is something we should discuss." Everyone looked at her in response. "I think we need to find out what's going on with that Torchwick guy and the White Fang."
A/N All right first chapter of first fic ever complete! As you can tell I am a huge Arkos fan, I have the first 6 chapters planned out so far, but we will see how this goes.