"Hey, Si- Oh my goodness! What happened to your face?!"

Nice to meet you again too, Jaune. Do you want me to ask if you still scream like a girl?

"I had a little 'accident' you know how these things go."

For the love of all things, Jaune, find the subtext. Don't take it literally like you usually do.

Jaune gulped, "Oh. One of your 'work' related accidents?"

I chuckled, "It seems sending you to Beacon was a good thing after all. You finally understand subtext!"

Jaune pouted adorably, "Hey, I'm not that stupid!"

I raised a cheeky brow, "Oh? I beg to differ."

Jaune crossed his arms, almost as though he'll counter any argument I make against him, "How so?"

"You asked me for some forged papers to get into Beacon, even though you had no prior training, and not to mention you don't look like the type to fight. You do know I could've said no and that'd be it. You would have had to find a different person to do the job for you and I doubt you would've gotten off easy. I'm talking about getting into shit that I did when I was at the bottom. I'm talking package deals, business meeting security, running all the way across town, then running back to-"

I coughed into my hand, I didn't mean to go off on a tangent like that. Plus Jaune was looking rather glum with each and everything I list.

"So's how's Beacon? What has it been like three to four weeks since you started?"

I felt as though I forgot to do something before he went, can't place my finger on it.

Jaune peaked up at the shift in topic, "Yeah about three weeks. It's good. I like it. Met some nice people, doing good in some classes so far, I'm a leader of a team, the food's nice, I-"

"Hold the hel- hold up! You? You're a leader of a team?"

Jaune squirmed his hand around his neck, "Y-yeah, Team JNPR, but it's no big deal."

"Seems like a pretty dandy big deal to me. Congrats, Bro. I didn't think you'd become a leader. Any cute girls on your team?"

"I… uh… ye-" Jaune stuttered.

It was cute how he still hushed up at the mention of any cute girl. Still though…

I wrapped an arm around the back of Jaune's neck, "Just remember I'm the cutest girl you'll ever meet. You got that Jaune?" I put a little pressure on his neck and ruffled his hair.

Jaune stuttered, "G-got it, sis."

"Say it like you mean it Jaune!"

I pulled him into a hug and rubbed my knuckles in his locks of hair.

"Ow. Stop that, sis." Jaune wasn't really hurt, I could tell.

"Say it."

I stopped my knuckle assault and replaced it with just my fingers going all around his neck. I could feel his suppressed urge to giggle.

"You're the cutest girl."

"What? Who is? I can't hear you."

I continued my tickling and did it at a faster rate, I lowered my hands ever so slightly to eventually get to his weak points.

"Y-you. Aha- S-stop." Jaune was starting to bawl in laughter.

"I'm not gonna stop until you say it!"

"Ahahaha- Yo-you're the cutest- aha- girl!"

I lowered into a large weak spot, his belly.

"Come on! Finish it!"

"Aha-You're the cu-ahaha- cutest girl I'll ever meet,-ahahaha- big sis!"

There we go. Instead of stopping I picked up my assault and tickled him as fast as I could. He let out an endless stream of laughter as I continued. This went on for a couple of minutes, until I suddenly stopped. My fingers ached from tickling him so much.

Jaune coughed a couple of times to get the tickles out of his system. He also drank some water to get back some the precious moisture he lost from laughing.

"So what'd you call me here for, Sis?"

"Aww. You don't think I just want to hang out with my little brother?"

Jaune stuttered, "Well if you wanted to do that-"

Predictable as always Jaune, you take everything at face value and usually don't question it. I hope that doesn't change for you, as most people would like others with pure intentions.

"I was just kidding, Jaune. Well kind of."

I do wish I had more opportunities to hang out with you like we used to.

"Oh."

"We can talk more about Beacon and the cute girls on your team later."

"Just my team?"

I smirked, "Oh? Are there any more cute girls you would like to talk about?"

He blushed as predicted, "Can we just get back to your thing?"

"Sure, sure."

I pulled out the heirloom from a box on the side, "Tadaa."

Jaune looked at it for a solid second, "What is it?"

Dammit Jaune, "Look at the symbol. Recognize it?"

"Hey, it's our symbol, neat."

"Do you not recognize this?"

There's was even a painting of it in the living room for Oum's sake. At least connect some dots.

"Nope." He popped the p.

"Lost family treasure. Worth a lot. Some reason held the secret to our previous success. Nothing yet?"

I'm starting to feel sorry for his teammates.

"Uhhh…"

"Lost heirloom."

"Oh yeah that thing!" He snapped his fingers together, "What was it again?"

"Did you never pay attention to great grandpa Lemon's stories?"

"No? Was I supposed to? They were mostly random stories after all."

"I know they were, but have to pay attention sometimes for the little details. Like say an heirloom supposedly worth billions of Lien, enough to put us back into the game. To which I mean the rich territory." I felt as though I had to clarify the last bit to Jaune.

"What makes it worth billions?"

Of course the only time you ask a sensible question is of one even I don't know the answer to.

"I don't know why."

"What was that about paying attention?"

"Do you want me to tickle you again?"

"N-no."

"Guess I'll find out when I present this to great grandma Raisin. She'll probably know something."

May Oum rest great grandpa Lemon's soul. I'm sure he would've been ecstatic to see this old thing again. I could envision his eyes popping out of his socket.

"So where did you find it? Or.. uh.. how?"

"During one of my jobs, same one that messed up my face. I didn't find it myself, one of my associates did."

"Huh. Guess they're pretty reliable, right?"

If little Neo and Roman seemed to think he's reliable, then he's okay in my books.

"Hmph. Yup, he sure is."

Now who should I nudge him towards first? Chocola or Lavender. Chocola has that cool woman vibe going on, something of which her daughter inherited. Whilst Lavy is the bunny faunus, if they're seen together it could improve relations with humans and faunus.

Or I could mischievously have him do both at the same time. Nothing wrong with having a couple of desserts in your hands.

Jaune seemed to cough as he noticed my scheming, "You're cooking up something mischievous aren't you? I hope it's not on me this time."

"Not this time, Jaune. Not this time."

I pat his shoulders to reassure him.

"So what else happened at Beacon?"

"Do you really want to know?"

"Yeah, we have a lot of time to kill."

"Well I had my Aura unlocked by one of my teammates."

I smacked my forehead. That's what I forgot to do.

…..

"Coco, sweety, can you gather any dishes and bring it up here?"

"Got it, Mom."

It would appear that Coco went into the back as soon as Jaune and I came into the building. Nice to know that she's here today. Now that I think about it, I don't think I've seen Velvet around this place. Weird.

"Hey, I remember this place. When I was little you used to take me here when I was feeling down. I used to order something all the time here I can't remember what it was."

Jaune placed a finger on his chin. I remember what it was he ordered, but I'll give him a couple of seconds to figure it out.

"Hey. Dandy. You must be Jaune, Dandy here talks about you a lot." Nice that Lavy is here. She leaned a bit closer towards my brother to get a better look at his features.

"Oh, she does?" He blushed at the prospect.

I ruffled his hair in response, "She's exaggerating. I don't brag about you that often."

He gave a slight chuckle.

Lavy pulled back a bit and looked at me, I saw a small grimace, but then a quick smile. Something I had to get used to very quickly, "You too look a lot alike."

"Of course we do, we're siblings, duh." I placed an arm around Jaune's neck and beckoned him to sit down, "Order whatever you want, I'm paying."

Jaune looked at the menu without hesitation, greedy little one aren't you?

"I'm trying to remember what I ordered when I was little."

Come on Jaune it's not that hard, even I remember after all these years. As he stared long and hard at the menu, my attention shifted to Lavy.

"As you can see, my little brother is pretty simple minded." This garnered a chuckle out of her. With a chuckle like that it's hard to imagine how she hasn't found another man.

"Hey! I'm not simple minded!"

"Yeah you're right. Even a simple minded person could remember what they ordered."

Jaune grumbled and looked back at the menu. I'll smack you over the head if you can't remember, bro.

Lavy leaned in closer and whispered, "Don't worry. My little Velvet used to be a bit stubborn too. Too focused on one thing to even bother to remember another."

"How did she snap out of it?"

"I gave her a camera."

I raised a brow.

"She started taking pictures of things she made sure she wanted to remember. She swore it made her smarter and she went on from there. She started out small, like her toys, then to random animals on the streets, then in the matter of many years she knows how to take beautiful pictures just by noticing the right amount of things."

I nodded to the nice story, it was cute and sweet.

"It's why she became a Huntress as well. It's so that she can take pictures of the places she'll be, whether it's the natural beauty of nature, the devastatingly captivating destruction of the Grimm, or even just for the fun of it."

"That's one heck of a reason. Still a better reason than my brother's."

It was Lavy's turn to raise a brow, to which I shook my head. Even I don't know what is going on in his damn head. Like why the hell did you want to become a Hunter in the first place?! Going to a prestigious academy isn't something you do for street cred or something like that. It's something you have to be into and work hard to get into.

Yet, if it wasn't me who would do it for him, someone else with a much higher price demand would do it for him. I couldn't just let him be owned by someone else, because of something like faking transcripts. They'd probably have him do something like message runs at first, later they'll have him kill a man to prove that he belongs, that or they'll kill him for being a coward and for not killing another person.

I'm thinking too far into this. I did what I did because he's family. We look out for each other thick and thin.

The door to the kitchen opened.

"Hello, welcome to Choco- Whoa Dandy is that you?! What happened to your face?!"

Coco, never stop being you. Except when it comes to my face, "Work related accident. Happened a couple of a weeks ago. Fire related, if you can't tell by the bandaged half of my face and burnt hair."

"Sorry, I was just wondering what happened." Coco lifted her sunglasses up a bit and crossed her arms. The pink frilly apron she was wearing made it somewhat cute, so I'll forgive her.

"Sorry. I usually don't like it when people immediately ask about it. I know it's obvious, but still… lead into the question… I guess?"

The little version of Chocola nodded in understanding, before Chocola actually came to the front.

"Hey, Dandy, nice to see you. And hello, Jaune! It's so nice to see you again!"

"Oh! I remember you!" Of course he remembers Dandy, but not his so called favorite thing to order.

"Yep! You were so tiny and cute back then, now you've grown big and tall. You used to order the Chocola Pudding Supreme with an added side of hot chocolate."

"That's what I ordered!" Jaune snapped his fingers at his memory suddenly flooding back into him.

Chocola then motioned towards Coco, "This is my daughter Coco. She started helping me right about after Dandelion stopped bringing you along."

Hey don't blame me. This guy went through a very weird emo phase.. or was it edgy phase? Was it both? No matter, he didn't want to do things because of the emo-edgy days. After that he sort of became the awkward goofball he is today and forgot about your shop because of the previous phase.

"Nice to meet ya. I'm Coco Adel."

"Jaune Arc… Hey, aren't you a second year or something. "

"Yep, leader of Team CFVY."

"Nice. I'm the leader of Team JNPR."

Coco smirked, "Just so you know, try to be a little more subtle about your flirting."

Jaune shook his head, "Huh?"

"Come on you're playing the obvious 'common connection' flirt. I've been hit on by enough guys to know if they're flirting or just if they just want to talk like normal people."

"I-uh.."

"I'd give it a four for effort. I will let you know I don't date guys younger than me. Now older guys, that's fair game for me.

Lavy, Chocola, and I laughed at the little scene in front of us. Hopefully your mother doesn't mind younger guys.

The doors to the front opened, good he's here now. I can finally get to wo-

"Hi, Tyler. Good to see you again. Who's that right next to you?" Lavy seemed to innocently ask.

Little Neo what're doing here? You're gonna screw everything up!

…..

Good place to stop, no?

Wanted to try something with this chapter and this is the result. How'd I do on a different perspective? Too similar or did it have a very distinct difference?

So, what'll happen next? See ya next time.