The breakfast next day was held on Taiyang's house. But this time they made Jaune cook, what was usual for the teens, and even Yang's father loved his food. The day was sunny, and Ruby showed his very detailed project for Patch's Spring Festival. It was the biggest party in the town, involving lots of food, drinking, music and games, so the redheaded reaper was really excited for it, and it was contagious enough to make everyone excited.

"So, of course, the first order of the day is to actually acquire all the food." Ruby explained with a big smile.

"Wait, what?" Weiss asked as she was not used with acquiring food. Probably the very concept of not having food served to her was a bit alien to the heiress.

"During the day we go fishing, hunting, collect wild fruits and berries, anything tasty we can find. So tomorrow we can have the biggest party in the story of Patch!" The little red hood said with her usual energy.

"Isn't that dangerous with the Grimm and all?" The heiress questioned the logic over that, and the fact that all sounded boring and probably tiring. Even dirty.

"The groups are always escorted by Hunters, so we rarely have any incidents. Besides, with you all here, I am sure this year's festival will be the liveliest ever. We will all have fun and enjoy ourselves." Taiyang added and they relaxed a little.

"Why I can't go too?" Taiyang complained like a child as he was informed by the village elders he was to remain in the village, on guard duty. "I want to go with my little princesses!"

"Dad! Your 'little princesses' can take care of themselves. Besides, with all the Hunters and the militia escorting the gathering groups, the town needs someone that can take care of it if something happens." Yang said to her father, receiving an incredible silly pout from the gown man, something that only Ruby could find adorable.

"Ugh, OK, OK. Remember to be careful you all." He said before pushing Jaune closer and whispering in his ears. "No funny business with my daughters, Jaune. I like you and would hate to send you back to your parents in a matchbox. Your mother would never forgive me."

Jaune just nodded in agreement.

To cover more terrain, they divided in trios. Zwei, Nora and Ren decided to go fish, while Ruby took Weiss and Blake to grab some fruits and mushrooms, while Yang took Pyrrha and Jaune to hunt. Certainly the two girls didn't planned this beforehand as Jaune questioned his use in hunting as he didn't had long range weapons, but soon he discovered there was a good reason he was there.

And that Yang was really passionate in her kissing.

"Wow… while I really liked it, now I am afraid your father could be around." Jaune said as he hugged Yang but kept his eyes on his surroundings.

"My dad is very responsible with his duties. If he was asked to stay in the village, he will stay in the village. Besides, I can't just let P-money have all the fun." She teased and winked at Pyrrha, which rolled her eyes and smiled. She found it funny she actually didn't felt jealousy. Maybe was how the situation unfolded for them.

"OK, I would love more than stay here and kiss my girlfriends all day, but I think it would be bad if we came back empty handed." Jaune affirmed but Pyrrha gently held his face and kissed him too.

"Not all day, yes, but we might have all morning, at least." Pyrrha said with a seductive smile, and as Jaune felt Yang gently hugging him, he knew there would be no rest for him that day.

Luckily Yang really knew her way around the forest, and despite a brief encounter with a Beowulf pack (brief was their existence too), the three returned just as night was approaching with three deer and a few rabbits. Jaune now knew why he was there aside the kissing as he carried two of the deer, one in it shoulder, and Yang and Pyrrha carried the wild rabbits.

The kissing and hugging in the morning made it all worth it, though.

They laughed and talked happily as they found the rest of their friends already in the village community hall. Nora was on top of one of the tables telling the children the fantastic tale of how she fought to bring the biggest fish ever. Jaune could only believe it as a fish the size of a cow rested in one of the tables, its face weirdly looking surprised, like the fish itself couldn't believe it. Ren just couldn't bring himself to correct her this time as he saw the pleased faces of the children.

Ruby and Blake displayed proudly their vast assortment of colorful berries, nuts and other wild fruits as well as beautiful, big mushrooms and even some roots. Weirdly, Weiss was nowhere to be seen at that moment, and when asked about her, Ruby murmured something about a mud pool and not being her fault.

Jaune was soon snatched by the old people to help cook, as apparently Taiyang didn't spare compliments over his cooking, and the boy could only oblige. He was happily helping preparing the foods for the day after Festival and talking with Pyrrha, Ruby, Yang and Taiyang. That is when a pair of male hands covered the blonde brawler's eyes.

"Guess who?"

"Cobalt?"

She turned around to be greeted by a tanned boy as tall as Jaune, but more muscular, and with almost white bleached hair. He was wearing a tight black t-shirt, grey cargo pants adorned with several golden chains and some type of ugly plastic sandals. Yang smiled and gave him a hug and then a punch on the shoulder, making Taiyang AND Jaune stare in displeasure.

"Cobalt! Since when you are here?"

"Just arrived. It was hard to find somewhere to land as some rich douche airship is taking the entire landing zone." He spoke while winking at Yang, which laughed and rolled her eyes. "So, come on, our friends are really wanting to know all of your exploits at Beacon."

With that he dragged Yang away to a group of local friends the blonde had, mostly also on spring break from their respective schools. Jaune groaned as he saw Yang laughing with the Cobalt dude, but reminded himself that he was her boyfriend, and that the blonde girl was the one that said she loved him. He resumed chopping the meat as he felt Taiyang nudging his ribs.

"Jauney boy, how you feel about murder?" Jaune opened his eyes wide as he turned to look at Taiyang growling at Cobalt.

"Daddy! What I told you about murdering boys that manifest even the slight interest in my sister?" Ruby shout-whispered. Jaune groaned at the idea that Cobalt was indeed interested in Yang.

"Hey, baby Rose! I didn't saw you before. Maybe you need a lower table?" Cobalt shouted at Ruby while the groups except Yang laughed. The young reaper started growling at him now.

"But accidents happen." Jaune held a bit of laugh looking how serious his friend looked as she spoke the veiled threat, and relaxed a little. He was in their hometown, after all, and Yang was bound to have friends there, and even if some of them had the 'hots' for his girlfriend, he knew she would reject their advances.

"Hey Jaune, how about we make some rabbit stew for dinner?" His other girlfriend, Pyrrha asked with a smile, and he nodded with a smile back before realizing something.

He had two girlfriends, so what exactly was avoiding them from getting two themselves?

"Jaune, you barely slept this night. What is bothering you?"

Pyrrha looked concerned at the knight as he left a small groan. He wondered if he should tell his girlfriend he was worried about his other girlfriend. It finally struck him hard that the relationship he was pursuing for was really complicated to deal with, and there was probably no one around he could really talk about it. He kissed Pyrrha and tried to move his thoughts to the back of his head.

Ruby stated that Cobalt was one of Taiyang's disciples, and was studying in Haven, and that he and Yang were old friends, but that the blonde girl never gave him a chance beyond being friends. Jaune tried to repeat his friend's words in an attempt to keep his thoughts where he put them.

"Nothing important, just me being stupid. Let's go to town and have fun. Today is a day for happiness." Pyrrha smiled and hugged him before getting up from the bed and dressing.

Jaune just hoped today would go better than the day before.

Hope was fleeting.

Cobalt was all over Yang, following her with the girl's entourage of local friends, but being too touchy to the knight's taste. Because of this and Taiyang's ever watching eyes, the knight couldn't find a moment to speak alone with her, and he also knew he couldn't ignore his other girl. So he focused on Pyrrha, to her happiness, trying to keep in mind that he could trust her.

He also put his mind on the work, as he helped the villagers to set up the big bonfire that would be lit for tonight's party. The time passed quickly before a bell rang loudly, indicating the start of the Festival. During the day there were many games to be held, and Jaune saw himself to be dragged to the first one.

Outside the walls, into one of the farms, a strip of mud land waited for them. Several watermelon sized rocks were lined around, and the purpose of the game was made clear on the spot. Taiyang grabbed one of the rocks with ease, and stood in a circle made with smaller rocks. He easily threw the heavy rock a hundred meters away from the circle and received loud cheering. Ruby used her Semblance to zoom in the rock and plant a flag with Taiyang's mark on its side.

"That pig is mine!" The big man shouted as he celebrated. The fact the prize was a live pig just made the games funnier. Yang moved next and grabbed a rock and threw it on the air before punching it. The rock landed just beyond Taiyang's, and the crowd cheered again as the man put his daughter on his shoulder. "This is my sunflower!"

Several men and women of the village tried their luck, but most fell short of even coming closer to the Xiao Longs. Cobalt was at the moment the closer one, with his rock landing a few meters short of them. Jaune wasn't able to hide a small smirk, just glad the boy wasn't in the lead. The knight didn't really felt like participating. He didn't want to transform that in a competition. But of course his friends had other ideas.

"Come on, you have to try too!" Nora bugged him, and Jaune groaned.

"Yeah, come on, show what we Beacon kids can do!" Ruby supported him, making him smile at her cute enthusiasm.

"Jaune, I am pretty sure you can at least do an impressive showing." Pyrrha supported her partner, and Jaune scratched his head. He really wasn't in the mood for that, but it was hard to say no to one of his girlfriends.

"Come on Jauney, you might not get the pig but I might give you something nice later." Yang approached for the first time that day, smiling and winking at him, making the blonde boy feel a bit relieved. Until Cobalt decided to chime in.

"Hey, if you are going to give scraggly here something special, I want it if he doesn't beat me."

"I assure you Jaune can beat you." Yang said playfully, and Jaune groaned. He didn't care about the boy's remark, but the brawler was rooting for him, and he couldn't for the good of himself let that implied trust down.

"Well, since you all want to see me making a fool of myself." He grabbed a rock and analyzed the now rock filled mud strip and the throwing circle. "Hey, Taiyang, just to be sure of the rules, I just need to throw the rock from the circle, right?"

"Yep, very simple rules. The best rules aside no rules." The tall man left a hearty laugh out and the knight chuckled.

"What if the rock bounces?"

"It is very deep mud there. It won't. Where it lands is where it stays."

Jaune nodded and looked at the field once again, and left the rock just a few steps away from the circle and walked towards the opposite direction. Everyone wondered what he was planning to do as he took some distance and stood a few meters away from it. Then he make a short run before flipping with his hands on the rock, using the impulse to spin with the rock in hand, landing on the circle and using the extra impulse to launch the rock. The rock flew but hit a rock that was already in the mud and bounced, then again in another rock to finally land just in front of Cobalt's rock.

There was a moment of stunned silence.

Then there was Nora.

"That is why you are our great leader! That. Was. AWESOME!"

"Wait, that can't be fair!" Cobalt protested, but Taiyang laughed loudly and patted Jaune in the back, almost knocking the knight down.

"He followed all the rules. The fact he used them on his favor just show muscles aren't the solution for everything."

"And that deserve a small reward." Yang gave a small peck on the knight's cheek, making him blush, the crowd cheer and Taiyang growl at him.

The Spring Festival was usually Yang's favorite day in Patch. It have lots of game, food and the village was the liveliest possible for such small settlement. But now she wasn't very happy while she walked around the village's plaza, and the reason was twofold.

First, she couldn't be with her boyfriend as much as she wanted since Taiyang was keeping her close, more than usual for some reason. That made the knight spend a lot of time with Pyrrha by his side, and she envied the redhead. She was on the verge of telling her father of her arrangement with the blonde and the Spartan if she wasn't sure he would kill Jaune on spot.

The other thing is that the blonde boy was giving her weird looks from time to time. She was used to him enough by now to know he was unpleased with something. She was hoping it was just that he, like her, wanted to spend more time together. But with her friends around and her father, finding an alone moment with him and Pyrrha was turning to be challenging.

"Hey, blondie, what did you say we have a private party somewhere?" Cobalt wrapped a hand on Yang's waist, surprising her. She looked at him and then saw Jaune making a sad face and walking off the main plaza. She grabbed the boy's hand and pushed it away in a very painful way.

"Cobalt, I told you many times before I just see you as a friend. So, keep your hands to yourself and you won't lose it." Yang smiled and winked.

Luck for her Nora was being over energetic again, defeating many of the burly men in the village in a game of arm wrestling, and challenged Taiyang for a match. That was her excuse to leave everyone behind watching the match to find Jaune.

It took a little searching but she found the boy sitting near the Schnee aircraft, playing with Zwei. She approached unnoticed and listened the boy was talking with the little dog, like the canine was able to understand his plight.

"What should I do, Zwei?" The small dog barked. "Yeah, I trust Yang. I know she wouldn't do that, but yet I just feel… distressed."

"So, why don't you talk to me?"

"You are right, I should just do… YANG?!" The boy almost jumped as he saw the brawler standing in front of him.

"Not doing me so soon, lover boy. So, tell me, what is troubling you?" She gently asked as she sat by his side and petted Zwei.

"It is just… Ugh… I don't know how to deal with this…"

"Jaune, dealing with what?"

"Jealousy… I know you aren't interested in that Cobalt guy, but seem him all over you made me jealous, and I don't know how to deal with it when I have two marvelous girlfriends and I can't think what right I have to not want neither of you finding other people to love…" Jaune was cut when Yang deep kissed him, calming him down.

"Jauney, we are working because… I really like Pyrrha. If it was someone else, I probably would not have gone with this. I don't feel jealousy towards her because both of you make me happy and make each other happy. If anyone else was to get in our love triangle because of me, this person would need to make you happy too. Cobalt is a friend, a dumb one most of the times, but just that. If any girl, or boy, that isn't Pyrrha tried a move on you, I would feel jealousy too." She felt a bit of happiness knowing what the problem was, since she never expected Jaune to feel jealousy. "So, don't feel guilty, OK. We will work on this, the three of us, together."

"Thanks sunshine." He kissed her back this time, and she felt even happier. "Now, better we go back to the party before your dad decides to search for you and discover you are alone with a boy, one that likes to be alive."

She giggled and got up with him, giving him one last kiss while they were alone before returning to the party. There they found a curious scene of Cobalt stuck in a pole by his shirt, a familiar lance stuck in it. The duo approached Pyrrha, the Spartan sporting a smug smile on her face.

"Pyr, what happened?" Jaune asked, barely able to hide his satisfaction at the scene.

"Well, he tried to hit on Weiss… And Blake… And finally me. I decided better stop him before he tried that on Nora. For his own safety, of course."

"Of course." The knight nodded.

"Eh, he can use some time to cool down. So, who wants to eat?" Yang suggested, but mostly dragging them to the food stands.

Taiyang Xiao Long was many things, but blind he wasn't.

He knew when his daughters arrived that Yang was unusually chirper, but only when a certain blonde boy was close. He could see the blushing, the stares, the way she would subtle approach the boy and touch him, especially when she thought he wasn't looking. He knew something bothered her when the boy looked down.

Again, he wasn't blind.

Taiyang always knew someday his daughters would fly off the nest. And he was determinate to not allow them to. And not with someone who had just admitted to have girlfriends. No, he would one day find a man worth of his daughters, and while Jaune Arc was a good boy and son of old friends, he wasn't the one. Because a man worth of Taiyang's daughters would have eyes only for them.

Following Yang was just an act of a concerned parent, as it would be his next one.

"Qrow, we have a situation with Yang. A code B. Stop laughing you old crone! Who is the boy is not important! Fine, Jaune Arc! Yes, Sarah and Michael son! I know she would do that! Wait, what? She did what? Look, I will take my chances! It is my princess their son is trying to seduce! Fine, you can try your way first! OK, OK. I will pretend to not know until you are ready. Thanks man." Taiyang finished his call and returned to the party, and saw Pyrrha and Yang chatting happily with the knight, and growled. "Soooooon."