Shout out to Jaune Black Smudge for his ideas for this story look back in Ruby and Weiss's chapters for flashbacks I added. Also new chapter lineup for after this chapter. Yang, NPR, Port, Oobleck, Glynda, Velvet, Cardin, Ozpin. I do not own RWBY.

"Jaune"- flashback

Chapter 4- A cat's tears

You were one of the kindest people I've ever met.

You treated everyone equally, regardless of race.

When I first saw you I had two thoughts.

Weak and pathetic.

In the forest when I went over the edge of that bridge you tried to grab me.

Even Yang, my partner, didn't do that.

Then I saw you in combat and dismissed you once more.

When I saw you reading those comics of yours I thought even less of you.

Now I know you were teaching yourself to read. Your education, what little you got, having been sabotaged from the moment you were born.

I wonder which of us had a worse childhood. I'm honestly not sure I want to know.

When Cardin was bullying Velvet I looked at him with disgust. Another human treating a faunus like a lesser being. We all condemned him, but none of us did anything. We had more than enough strength to make sure he stopped yet we ignored it. You ,the weakest of us, stood up to him. He beat you and bullied you and I knew. Yet I did nothing about it. Me, the girl who was picked on all her life for something beyond her control and I allowed you to suffer.

HOW COULD I DO THAT? WAS I THAT WILLING TO FORGET MY PAST I'D ALLOW ANOTHER TO BE SO CRUELY TREATED

In Forever Fall's I followed you and Cardin. I heard how he blackmailed you. I watched him beat you and saw how all you cared about was your friend's being left alone. Then you saved him from the Ursa rather than leaving him to die.

I don't think I could have done that.

I would have left him to die. You didn't.

More proof you're a better person than me.

When you told us about your fake transcripts I forgot all the good you had done and saw only the lie that got you into Beacon.

I'm such a hypocrite.

After all I had lied about so much. What gave me the right to judge you?

I didn't think about the fact you were an untrained civilian you was willing to die in order to protect people.

We were cold to you. Yet you acted like nothing changed.

It's sad that I couldn't tell how it was because you were used to even worse treatment.

Our childhoods weren't happy ones, but I had some friends and the Fang.

You had no one.

I SHOULD HAVE SEEN THE SIGNS

Who knows how things would have turned out then?

When we went on a training mission about ten days after you told us you lied to get into Beacon thing went wrong fast. At least twice as many Grimm as we should have seen appeared. You had a plan that would have worked. We didn't listened and just fought the Grimm in a disorganized mess. Weiss would have been torn to pieces if you hadn't stopped that Beowolf.

You nearly died without us having the chance to apologize. Not that I should have held your lies against you.

Then I snapped at Weiss after our day at the docks and reveled my true species and my past in the White Fang. I met up with Sun and was telling him my past when you showed up.

"So that's what you look like without the bow." That voice. "Jaune?" I couldn't believe he of all people found me and that he wasn't surprised to see my cat ears. "You know this guy?" Sun asked me. I nodded in reply the addressed Jaune "How did you find out?" If one of my team told him it shows I can't trust them. "I suspected from the number of times I've seen that bow move on its own but Weiss's rant about you hiding thing's a few hours ago confirmed it." So that spoiled. "She didn't say it outright but she let a few clues drop unknowingly." That was marginally better. "So what do you plan to do?" he would probably tell my team where he saw me. "Depends on what you want." My look of disbelief spurned him on. "Seriously I understand keeping secrets, but I do think you should let your team know you're okay." I shook my head at him. "No, not until I prove the Fang are innocent, besides what would you understand about how faunus are treated." The coldest look I have ever seen since Adam appeared on his face. "More then you will ever know." I felt the hair on my neck stand up at his tone. In a second he had a warm smile back on his face "Just be careful, and remember you always have your team." Jaune then turned around and walked off. Sun then blurted out. "So to the docks."

I later found out you told Ruby where to find me. You must have heard Sun.

I can't thank you enough. If Ruby and Penny hadn't come I would have died, or if I lived I wouldn't have returned.

Then the breach occurred and you saved me again by convincing your team to check on us. I don't want to think about what would have happened if you hadn't.

Yet when you went to rescue innocent's we still scolded you even after not listening to your plans again. As if the last time we did that turned out so well. We were lucky no one was severely injured.

You comforted me on the rooftop that night. I couldn't believe the Fang would go that far. So many innocent dead. You kept reassuring me it wasn't my fault. I think if you hadn't shown up I would have killed myself.

The festival occurred and then it looked like Yang broke Mercury's leg for no reason. Yet when I turned on her you stood by her side.

When Cinder and the fang made their move I found myself fighting Adam. I couldn't let go of my old feelings for him, he was the closest thing to family I had, and that cost me and Yang.

A sword in the gut for me.

A lost arm for Yang.

I got out of there and made it to the courtyard only to hear Pyrrha tell Weiss over the scroll that you went to face Cinder by yourself. Then your fight started playing. You even managed to clear Yang's name during it.

When your arm was cut off my heart dropped.

When the arrow pierced your heart my entire body went cold.

Then you blew the entire tower off the map.

You said I'd get over it easily.

YOU IDIOT, HOW COULD YOU THINK THAT I WOULD EVER GET OVER YOU.

I fell for you hard after you comforted me on that rooftop. Some would say my lack of affection as a child made me latch on to you. I don't care what they say. I never made a move because of your infatuation with Weiss. When you got over her I didn't make a move out of respect for Pyrrha.

I wish more than ever I did now.

I love you Jaune Arc. It's too late to tell you that now.

I thought of leaving after that considering what I had cost Yang but that would dishonor your memory.

Adam once more made a move to get me back to the Fang.

I had stomped any feelings I had left for the Fang out after your death.

They played a role in your death. They will pay for that.

My answer for Adam was Gambol Shroud in his throat.

We made a grave for you in Beacon not that we could put anything in it.

I stay by your grave during most of my free time. I camp by it most nights.

All seven of us want to be buried by you when we die.

Death once scared me but now it doesn't any more.

I won't throw away my life, but I won't run from death.

After all, once I die I can confess my love for you.

Blake is one of my favorite characters due to her backstory and KnightShade is my favorite pairing so I couldn't help but add it in some way. The next chapter may take a while due to focusing on the next chapter of Teigu, Man's Best Friend. Until Next Time.