This is the new and Rewritten version of my old story Jaune's new family. This had a different story arc and a new working pairing.
Warning: This chapter includes mentions of child abuse/neglect.
Outside the borders of Vale~Village of Patch~Xiao-long/Rose residence~10 Years before Beacon~10:30 at night
Ruby Rose and Yang Xiao-Long lived with their father, both mothers MIA, Summer Rose presumed dead. Most would think that with a loss of two wives that the father, Taiyang Xiao Long, would be overprotective of his daughters. In reality instead of seeing his daughters as the last pieces of his broken family, he sees them as constant annoying reminders of his dead wives.
Taiyang would love nothing more than to see his daughters done away with so he can wallow in his sadness. Taiyang knows that he can't kill his children... directly. So instead he deprives them of food, water, and basic human contact. The only actual time that either Ruby or Yang had seen the outside was under the basement door crack and through and open front door. All the windows in the basement he shoved them in were blocked off with thick sheets of metal he built into the concrete foundation.
Both Ruby and Yang were deathly pale, comparable to printer paper. Through the scraps of cloth they called clothes, you could count their ribs. They had sunken eyes that held no mirth, they held nothing at all really, just dead orbs that they use to look into the same dark, dank, cold basement they see every waking moment.
They didn't get lucky enough for their father to ignore them and maybe remember to throw food into the basement, no. When Taiyang was particularly stressed he would relieve his anger on the two, thankfully he didn't do anything sexual to them. He would never risk people finding out that he abused his kids, even worse if they found out that he sexually abused them. So he just locked them away hoping that without them his memories of his past wives would leave him.
One fateful day it all changed for Ruby and Yang. After a beating like they usually got from their 'father', he made mistakes. He left a couple of his 'tools' in the basement. Taiyang also didn't notice one of Yang's arms was unchained, and she was close enough to reach the 'tools'. Also he forgot to lock the door upstairs, probably thinking about going to one of the bars to drink away memories. All of these added together made it an easy way out for escape.
Yang was close enough to the tools so she grabbed a hammer and started bashing the rusty chains and broke them. She did the same to Ruby's chains and dragged her. She stumbled up the steps and weakly opened the door, dragging Ruby through. She dragged Ruby to the kitchen and grabbed as much food as she could and shoved it into a grocery bags. When she got back to Ruby she started to drag her when she noticed lights out the front door.
Startled she started to drag Ruby as fast as she could towards the back door. She unlocked and opened it right when the front door started to open. She grabbed Ruby and dragged her as fast as she could towards the forest that was behind the house. she was halfway through the backyard when there was yelling and their inebriated father stumbled out the back door.
Because Taiyang was drunk he stumbled and tripped over a bump in the grass and fell down. This gave Yang enough time to drag her and Ruby into the forest and escape their father.
The one thing that Yang did not plan for was the Grimm, she had never really known about them except whenever they came snuffling by the blocked windows. Yang and Ruby were lucky enough to miss all the Grimm in the area and escape into the forests between the kingdoms.
Forest between Kingdoms~10 Years before Beacon~7:00 in the morning
Ruby woke to the sound of shuffling leafs and breaking twigs. Even if it was midday barley any light came through the canopy roof, it was even worse with it being early morning. That left visibility to almost a 0, the only indications that there was something there would be the small flashes of red from all around them.
Ruby turned to her sister and tried shaking her awake. It was all for naught as Yang was like a hibernating Ursa when it came to her sleep, she was only waking up on her terms. This left Ruby to deal with the problem herself, which meant that with her situation would be running while dragging Yang at the best possible moment. That would be nigh impossible since their were Grimm, specifically Beowulfs surrounding them.
She did the only thing she could think of, which was grabbing a sturdy looking stick and standing somewhat protectively over Yang. This didn't seem to do anything and most likely would lead to her just getting more injured before being killed.
All the eyes seemed to stop moving and zeroed in on her and Yang's position. The only movement in the clearing was Yang's breathing and her shaking in fear. At that moment a Beowulf started to move towards her, picking up speed until it was sprinting at her. The Beowulf's full body had just appeared from the treeline when another figure appeared, this one was inherently human. As this person practically appeared out of thin air in front of Ruby, she squeaked, as the person held up something akin to a weapon's silhouette.
He was in front of the Beowulf as it dived towards him and Ruby. Faster then the eye could see he smashed the weapon into the Beowulfs body, turning it into red and black mist. That only seemed to anger the other Grimm as they also dove out of the bushes. After that it was all just a blur of red mist.
As soon as the last Beowulf died the figure turned to them, Yang had woken up in the middle of the fight but was too scared to actually move. When the figure fully turned around they noticed it was indeed a male, though he looked to be around Yang's age of 7. Without warning Ruby jumped at the figure; hugging him. He caught Ruby without any issue and held her while she cried and profusely thanked him. When she seemed to calm down she looked aver to Yang who was staring frightfully at the boy.
"You need not worry yourself, I am of no danger to your safety." He spoke in a calm and soothing tone, slightly deeper then you would find on an average 7 year old. This seemed to calm Yang down some, if only a little. Yang slowly stood and walked over to Ruby and pulled her into a hug with a lost look in her eyes, staring into the forest.
"Who are you?" Yang asked and in response got smacked in the back of the head by Ruby.
"Yang! You're supposed to introduce yourself before asking for a name." She then turned to the figure and smiled.
"I'm Ruby Rose and this is my sister Yang Xiao-Long, well half sister." Ruby spoke cheerily. The boy in return smiled and spoke in the same soothing voice.
"My name is Jaune Arc, may I ask as to why you both are out here in the forest?" The newly introduced Jaune inquired. Ruby the ever cheerful child answered.
"We came from our house." All Jaune did was raise his eyebrow at this. "We left because our dad was a meanie." Jaune seemed to catch on and nodded before speaking.
"Would you like to come live with me? I came from around the same situation." Yang seemed skeptical at this, which Jaune noticed.
"My parents and sisters were not as excepting of me as a family should," Jaune started, "They did somewhat of what what your father did to you except they tried to get rid of me permanently." This seemed to humble Yang.
Ruby got a sad look on her face and jumped at Jaune trying to tackle him in a hug, though Jaune didn't seem to notice her dive hug.
"Where do you live then?" Yang asked. Jaune smiled as he replied in his ever calm tone.
"I live not to far to the north of here, I have a hut on the edge of a cliff." Jaune motioned towards what was presumably north. "If you would care to follow, you need not worry about the Grimm, they avoid the area." He started walking towards where he motioned carrying Ruby on his back Yang reluctantly following.
Forest Between Kingdoms~Jaune's Hut~10 Years before Beacon~2 in the afternoon
Jaune's hut was a simple 3 room house with no plumbing, though it did have electricity through electric dust crystals. The outside was unassuming except for the fact that the back deck was leaning over the cliff the house sat on. The inside was simple and rustic in a sense, the most advanced part of the house being the electronics room and forge, the forge being in a separate building.
When asked as to how he built and could afford such a building he answered 'saving a few odd villages from Grimm attacks'. It seemed to sate the girls curiosity for a while. He showed them to the only bedroom in the house and put Ruby in the bed where she fell asleep almost instantly. He had motioned for Yang to get into the bed as well which she reluctantly did after sending a mistrusting glance towards him.
Little did any of the three know, this would change the lives of all three them. As individuals. As children. As a family.
End Prologue
End of the prologue of the remastered version of Jaune's new Family. As you notice this is starting out differently with a slightly different story, but the premise is still there from the original.
As a note I would like to point out as to stop confusion in further chapters, Ruby and Yang will look to Jaune as a father and Jaune will look at them like daughters using the terms Dad and daughter/sweetie respectfully. Even though Jaune and Yang are the same age and Ruby is only 2 years younger, the point stands symbolically.
-Baothghalach