AN: Here! We! GO! Another part of The Apprentice! In this one we see Jaune make a somewhat recovery, Blake and Ruby take time to lick their wounds and Jaune and Yang have a rematch that gets electric! So if that sounds good here you go and thanks for reading! And as always enjoy.
Jaune woke up to the feeling of having been run into by a bullhead. His eyes flickered open as pain lanced down into this face; it felt like he was lifting iron walls as he forced his eyes to be open. The sharp blinding rays of the sun hit him, as he heard a steady beep!
Of a mechanical device along with the harsh, irritating smell of antiseptic. It took Jaune less than a second for him to figure out where he was as the boy moaned. Moving his limbs, arms filled with iv wires, that pumped multicolored fluids in and out of his arms. His body felt like hell; it was like he had been run over by an eighteen wheeler as he opened his eyes.
"Where am I?" Jaune asked, looking around he was in a hospital that was for sure. But looking around it was not Vale's no-
"School? I made it back to Beacon?" Jaune asked as-
Images flashed in his mind flames fire the sound of screaming tortured steel blood pain-
"Ruby!" Jaune yelled, lurching up his heartbeat began to jackhammer his eyes bulged out there she was! In the bed next to him silent sleeping her thing from resting peacefully an equally massive amount of Iv's running in and out of her own flesh-
"Jaune!?" He knew that voice he snapped his head to the left as he saw a pair of amber eyes glowing.
"Blake!?" Jaune asked as Blake ran inside the infirmary a small basket of fruit in her hands. She sprinted forward, picking up her scroll.
"Weiss! He's up!" Blake said as she shouted into her scroll. The now not faunus in hiding ran forward her hands flying to Jaune's chest, that was still covered in a thin hospital gown. Jaune groaned he had a splitting headache that felt like a hammer was splitting his forehead.
"What happened? Where's Roman?"
"He got away..." Blake said both teens looked at Ruby they knew that it was Ruby's fault that Roman had gotten away and they were both none to please but that-
A loud wham! Filled the air as Jaune and Blake snapped their heads to the side. In the door was a panting disheveled Weiss. Her blue eyes that were ordinarily radiant like diamonds were red and puffy; large black dark circles had formed under her eyes from an evident lack of sleep. Her hair was a mess... easily put into a semi-neat bun her dress usually a pristine steam pressed as messy and wrinkly and-
Weiss stormed over to Jaune moving with such force and purpose that her partner gulped.
"Weiss-
"You are ok." Weiss's hug was soft. Surprisingly so she wrapped Jaune in a light hug, making sure to wrap her arms around him. Weiss hugged her best friend and partner tight. Her nails digging into the back of his gown. Weiss let out a sigh of relief her body shook as it let go of a massive amount of tension.
Jaune cautiously hugged her back not knowing what to expect; he thought that by now Weiss would be screaming at him. Yelling at him for being a reckless idiot, but she seemed relieved? Like a weight had been lifted off of her shoulders as-
"You, idiot." Weiss whimpered her nails digging into his back.
"Weiss?"
"You should have called us."
"I..."
"We would have come to help you, you didn't have to help Ruby on her own," Weiss repeated herself Jaune paused he did not know what to say he looked up at Blake who just mouthed play along.
Jaune nodded as he held his best friend back.
"I'm sorry?"
"You, fool! We could have helped you! I... you almost died!" Weiss hissed her body, shaking like a live wire was put in it.
"It's ok."
"It's not!"
"I'm ok Weiss I'm ok," Jaune said he did not feel ok, really he felt like he had been running over by a Deathstalker and that his body was barely being held together by stitches.
"You are not ok! You almost died! I had to watch it! I had to watch as my partner was bleeding out on the damn tv and do nothing! Do you know how that made me feel!?" Weiss shouted tears begin to form in her eyes as-
Another wham! Filled the air, this time, Yang and Pyrrha walked in. Yang's eyes locked onto him, and she crossed the room, taking three steps at a time.
"Yang-
"Thank the goddess." Yang wrapped Jaune in a tight hug, pressed his face firmly into her chest. She pulled Jaune up into a hug lifting him half of his bed, his face smashed into twin mounds of flesh.
Yang sniffed his head taking in his scent, rubbing his head as she wrapped him tight.
"Yang! You are holding on a bit tight-
"Are you ok!? Does it hurt!? Do you need some medicine!?" Yang demanded dropping Jaune back to the cot as her hands shot forward, reaching to Jaune's chest, opening his gown as her hands began to trace down his font.
"Does it hurt anywhere!? Do you want some ice or pain killers-
"Yang!?" Jaune shouted his face turning beet red, the result of a woman touching his chest making Jaune fluster as-
"Xiao-long enough! I know that you are happy to see Jaune as well but do not use that as a reason to cop a feel!" Weiss hissed pushing Yang out of the way before having Jaune fix his own gown.
"I wasn't! You know that I would not-
"I know that you would not do that on purpose, not that you would not do it," Weiss said rolling her eyes as Jaune blushed Pyrrha walked up blushing a bit before rubbing the back of Jaune's head.
"I was worried about you."
"I... I'm sorry."
"You do not need to apologize; this was not your fault." Weiss spat as she Yang and Pyrrha gave Blake a baleful glare. The faunus took the glare in stride taking a breath as Jaune froze.
"Weiss? What's wrong? Did I do-
"You did not do anything, Jaune." Pyrrha hissed her eyes squinted close she was glaring daggers at Blake as was the rest of his team as-
"None of you should feel ashamed. If there is any shame to be assigned, it falls on me." The calm irritated voice of Raven said as she stalked into the room. The head of security of Beacon walked in, shaking her hands as she sighed.
"Jaune. Let me say thank you; you save my niece." Raven began the older woman looked tired, not as bad as Weiss but still very tired; she yawned once a few dark rings on her eyes as she yawned.
"I wish I could have saved you before, but I am not bonded with you so I could not make a trip to your location. I will bond with you later but! In your defense, you did well, and I thank you for my niece's life."
"I... I owe you my sister's life. I won't forget that ever." Yang said without even a hint of humor in her voice.
"Thank you? I was just doing my job-
"A noble reason if there ever was one but still. Good reasons seldom get extraordinary results. Beliefs cloud actions Mister Arc." Opal said, silently walking into the room sipping a mug of something steaming. The elder silver-haired grey-eyed woman smiled at Jaune as she nodded once to the boy. Glynda and the nurse Sandra followed Opal. Glynda looked like she had not slept in half a week, and the nurse was already shaking her head.
"Jaune! You idiot!" Once again Jaune's face was smothered in a woman's chest Glynda picking him up squeezing once.
"You, idiot! You fool of a nephew! What is wrong with you!? What if you got hurt!?"
"I did not get that badly hurt-
"On the contrary Jaune, you were on the verge of death," Sandra said the raccoon faunus said as she pulled out her clipboard.
" You have six broken ribs, one punctured lung, each leg broken in at least two places on in three. You had a severe concussion minor cranial bleeding and a shattered skull." Sandra read off the injured as every jaw in the room except for the knocked out Ruby's dropped.
"How is he even moving?" Yang asked her gaze changed to wonder as Sandra gave the very medically accurate gesture of shrugging her shoulders.
"Aura? I honestly don't have any other reason. You suffered all of those injuries, even taking a shot to the gut before you succumbed to blood loss. I think that your aura saved you in the process but honestly, it's a miracle that you are alive." Sandra said she was as honest as she could. She had no real reason to say Jaune was alive besides the fact that a miracle of aura.
"So, he should be dead?"
"Yang!"
"She is right Weiss. Jaune should be dead, hell the fact that he will not suffer long term harm is a literal miracle." Sandra really could not emphasize the miracle part of that remark, Jaune should be dead right now. Not grievously injured not on death's door he should be dead in the cold hard ground not on the road to making a full recovery.
"Well, I'm not dead-
"And a miracle that is! Jaune I know that you want to help people I know that you want to be a hero but please... you need help, you need your team. You are my partner. I am your leader; you can't just go on missions when a woman leans on you!" Weiss spat at Blake who sighed as she rolled her eyes.
"Blake? What is she talking about-
"Nobility is a good trait Jaune but do not take us as fools."
"Ma'am?" Jaune asked as Opal took another long sip from her mug-
"Jaune we know that Blake was the one to convince you to go into Vale with her. We know that she was the one who convinced you to infiltrate the Fang base. While we do not condone the actions taken, they are in the realm of a hunter in training authority so I can not be that mad." Raven said, rolling her blood red eyes as Opal nodded in agreement.
"You are both at fault here. Blake should not have encouraged you, but you should not have gone along."
"Ma'am! It was not Jaunes' fault!"
"As nice as it is to see you defend Jaune he is not some flower Weiss, Jaune is a human being capable of making his own decisions, Weiss." Opal reprimanded Weiss as Jaune gulped.
"I could not just let her go alone, what kind of hunter, what kind of friend would I be if I let my friends go into danger without me?" Jaune's answer worked like a charm the room seemed to soften as Opal Glynda Ravne, and the others gave him a warm look at the headmistress sighed.
"That is true, I suppose. If you had let Blake go into danger and not cared about her in the slightest, I would have severe second thoughts of allowing you into my school. While not perfect, you made the best choice that you could."
"The best!? He almost died!?"
"Glynda he is your nephew. Of course, you are worried about him. But he is also a hunter in training. As unfortunate as his death would be, he knows as well as you know that it could happen at any day. Mister Arc is not under the illusion that he is not in all likelihood going to see old age, isn't that right, Jaune?" Opal asked Jaune paused he never really gave much thought to his own death.
He always thought that he would live fight and then die fighting Grimm he never really put the effort into thinking that would happen if he got to grow old.
"I've never thought about it, really? I guess I'll die fighting Grimm? Maybe if I'm lucky, I'll have a kid or two, but I don't have plans to retire."
"Jaune."
"Weiss?"
"Jaune, you are my partner. You are my best friend. You are going to live a very long life. You are going to have many children, and you are definitely going to retire after we graduate, do I make myself clear?" Weis's tone broked zero arguments as Jaune felt his neck tighten as he gulped loudly.
"Weiss?"
"You will not die before me, or any of us. We are a team we live together, and we die together. I know that you want to be a hero but no more solo actions, ok?"
"I... yeah, you are right. I'm sorry for making you worry partner. I won't do it again, ok?"
"See to it that you do not, if you make me worry about you again I will chain you to your bed and not let you leave the room until we graduate ok?" Weiss asked as Yang flashed a shit eating grin as she licked her lips.
"Oh? I thought that I was going to be the one to tie Jaune to the bed?"
Whap!
"Hey!"
"Get your mind out of the gutter," Raven said slapping Yang on the back of her head as Jaune laughed, Yang shot her mother a death glare before Sandra sighed.
"As I was saying you are on bedrest. Weiss do not let him leave his bed for the next few days. His aura is going to heal him but make sure that he takes it easy ok?"
"Rest assured that he will not be leaving his bed other than using the bathroom and bathing."
"He might need help bathing are any of you willing or able to do that?" Sandra asked as Weiss, Pyrrha and Yang suddenly blushed a bright red-
"Oh come on it's not like I'm asking you to sleep with him. He might need some help washing surely you can think beyond your hormones for once."
"I... I don't think that that would be a good idea!"
"I agree! Weiss has a point! Jaune can most likely wash-
"I'll do it! Hell, I'll wash him every day of the week! Just let me and him have some alone time in the bathroom, and I can make him squeaky clean!"
Whap!
"OW!"
"Stop talking about Jaune as if he only exists to serve you; I raised your better than that."
"When you were actually around that is, not like you were the one to take me to school."
"Did you say something child of mine who I birthed in great pain?"
"Yes, I said that you were an absent parent."
"I was always there!"
"From the shadows!"
"That still counts!"
"Enough! Thank you, nurse Sandra Ma'am's. We will take Jaune back to his dorm where he will rest, wither he wishes to take it east or not. "
After that, Jaune had to relax for the next few days a task that was somehow ridiculously easy and near impossible. For the first day, Jaune did nothing sat in his bed played on his scroll. Weiss brought him food three times a day breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
She made sure to take all notes for him and also made sure that he knew what he was missing in class usually by giving him a lecture about what it was that was taught in his absence.
When he was alone in the room which was often Jaune slept, he had literally nothing else that he would do besides look at the videos on his scroll. Jaune did learn some facts about what happened.
Apparently, it was a televised event, everyone in the school and most of Vale saw Jaune and Ruby shooting at a massive robot while trying to take down Roman Torchwick and not be shot to death in the attempt.
A brave image and one that did wonders to help his hunter career but it was not without cost...
"What did you have Ruby drink?" Raven had asked him her voice clear in Jaune's head as it was in the infirmary. Raven spoke bluntly never taking time for considering the other person feel just getting to the point as fast as possible, like a blade to the heart she was always direct and final.
"It is some of my special dust that I keep on me," Jaune replied before the subsequent explaining shock of him being on drugs which raised a worried look from Sandra bemused form Raven, irritated Opal and a livid Glynda were clamped down by Weiss and thankfully her sibling Winter arrived just in time to explain things in the way that only an adult could as they calmed down.
"So this drug... it speeds up healing?" Raven asked as Jaune nodded.
"It stops bleeding to be exact. It acts as a stopper for the blood, making it almost impossible to continue losing blood while under its effect, and it also closes wounds."
"Fascinating and you claim to have made this all on your own," Opal asked as Jaune shook his head.
"Not on my own, I had help in learning dust. I did not just make this."
"What I meant was that it was your invention? You might have been taught by others, but this was something that you made?"
"Yes. If that is what you are asking, then yes it is. I made this myself, and I was the one to test it."
"How did you test this? Such a drug would only be used in the direst of circumstance, where did you find a subject?" Raven asked as Jaune let out a deep sigh.
"I often used it on myself all of my drugs are self-tested I got hurt. I needed a way to heal fast, and like all, I was my guinea pig." Jaune's explanation did work more or less as he laid back in his bed content to just let the day pass him by as he rested quietly.
Jaune had woken up to pain, tubes, and wires in him; he groggily opened his eyes moaning in pain. His life was then crashed by friends, family, and adults...
Weiss was the least calm of them she had not liked seeing her partner on death's door and-
"They put it on tv." Jaune groaned in the Sapphire dorm as he sighed this was a disaster...
Weiss was having a good day.
"Come on, Weiss Cream! Let's get a damn move on!" Yang said, waving her leader forward Weiss sighed following Yang down into the standard rooms of Beacon.
"I am coming you brute," Weiss said with a small smile forming on her face. It was time for the teams of Ribbon and Sapphire to bond for a bit. Jaune and Blake were out, and surprisingly Ruby was also out doing something or the other and-
"Whoa! Check this out! Weiss! Get in here! You are going to want to see this!"
"What is it, Yang? It can't be that important-
"Jaune's on tv!" Weiss raised an eyebrow as she began to increase her pace to the dorm Jaune on tv? That seemed to be interesting.
Why are you on tv? Weiss thought as she walked into the common room, Yang and Nora were crowding a large tv in the center of the room.
"What is so fascinating that has everyone crowding-
"OH! Get him, Ruby!"
"You can do it, Jaune!" Yang and Nora cheered as Weiss pushed them aside, rolling her eyes.
"Out of my way you two what is so-
Crack! The familiar crack of Crescent Rose filled the air Weiss paused as she saw Ruby riding on Jaune's back the partner best friend of hers was riding a yellow motorcycle as the two-
Crack! She fried again the footage obviously shot from a news drone went wobbly was a missle broadsided it!? The two were chasing a Paladin down the freeway and-
"What are you doing!?" Weiss screamed both in equal parts anger and resignation as she rolled her eyes. Seriously! Both of them fools! How could they be doing this in public!?
"You, fool! You are aiming for the dome! Go for the weapons systems!" Weiss shouted more irritated than any other emotion. Jaune and Ruby were skilled, and it was just a high-speed chase with deadly ballistics weaponry, If Weiss didn't want Jaune to be involved in this then she would not have wanted him even to be enrolled in Beacon in the first place.
As the two rolled down the freeway, Weiss rolled her eyes she was going to chew Ruby's' ear out for this! Involving Jaune was better than fighting alone but seriously! She should-
"He jumped!?" Nora yelled the mech leaped over the side of the overpass as Jaune and Ruby-
"Follow him!" Ruby yelled as Weiss froze her and Yang stopped cheering and frowning as Ruby just-
"What!?"
"Follow him! Over the bridge!"
"What!?"
"Ruby, no!"
"How!? He jumped!? What do you want me to-
"Forward!" Ruby said putting away Crescent Rose as she leaned forward and pressed down on the throttle of the motorcycle as they two floored it off the side of the freeway following after the Paladin-
Weiss heard the crack! The terrible, awful cracking sound of snapping bones, the sound of snapping bones and the horrendous sound of tearing twisted metal filled her eyes.
Weiss felt every last bit of breath leave her body as she gasped, she saw it, saw the bike hit the floor. She saw it break apart and burst! She saw Ruby hit the ground her aura flashed, but she was spared most of the force as she skidded off like a pebble on a lake.
Jaune hit the ground with a splat. His legs popped like there were compacted can pressed down by a foot. His legs popped bone erupted from both his aura shattered and broke and he hit the ground with a dull mad, messy wet thud! Weiss felt her body go stiff-
"No..." Weiss said as Jaune hit the floor his legs broke and back twisted and went still. For two long horrifying minutes, Jaune stayed still; there was no breath in the room as Jaune was still he and Ruby laid still no moving not breathing just sitting before-
There was a twitch, Jaune's legs twitched followed by his arm and another leg he groaned spitting coughing up blood as she began to sit up-
"Mom! Come on! Answer! Answer!" Yang was yelling into her scroll walking pacing on the far side of the room as she yelled into her scroll Weiss felt her body snap, her mind shook off the panic that was racking her body gripping her like a boa constrictor and squeezing her with all its might.
Weiss pulled out her scroll she called the infirmary, informing them of two trauma patients that would be on their way.
"Two trauma patients, both with multiple contusions broken bones, and internal hemorrhaging. They will have lost a lot of blood when they get to the room so please have transfusions ready. Jaune can take blood from, so that is less important Ruby need B negative-
"Ruby?" Jaune's voice, his weak crackling voice came over the speakers as Weiss found herself struck. He was getting up!?
"Miss Schnee? About the patients-
"Stay down! You idiot!" Weiss hissed her body starting to revert into a panic state as-
"Jaune?" Ruby asked both of them were alive standing up and-
"Freeze!" Ruby yelled as Roman Torchwick looked back to her rolling his eyes even on the camera his irritation and annoyance shone through.
"Stop!" Jaune yelled as Ruby charged!? She ran at Roman forcing Jaune to follow her-
"Stay down! You fool!" Weiss yelled as the single most one-sided fight in all of history took place. To call it, a fight would have been a joke; Roman did not even try. He seemed more interested in getting away from them rather than killing them.
That makes sense his M.O. is that not murder, fighting Beacon students is terrible enough killing them might bring a whole new world of hurt on him. Weiss reasoned as even if Roman did not kill them, he beat them both within a solid inch of their life, cracked bones followed by twin gunshots fired leaving Jaune and Ruby broken and bleeding-
"MOM!" Yang yelled as a portal opened a the nightmare seemed to be finished...
"Jaune." Weiss broke Jaune out of his daydream as he turned to face the shining blue eyes of his partner as she walked inside the team Saphire dorm.
"Yeah, Weiss? What's up?" Jaune asked as he looked up from his scroll Weiss had walked in flanked by Yang and Pyrrha. The later two silent as Weiss gulped once walking up to him as she sighed.
"Jaune. We need to talk."
"About?"
"You... your drug, the one that saved Ruby's life do you have any more of it?"
"No. That was my last vial. I save them for desperate, usually why?"
"Jaune. From now on. If you are not with the team, I must ask that you prioritize your own life."
"No."
"Jaune..."
"I came here to save lives if I did doing that, then I am doing what I came here to do."
"Jaune. I do not care about that I care about my teammate, my friend's life."
"Same here, Jaune. You can't just throw your life away... even if it was for Ruby, you could have split the vial, right?"
"I could have, and it might have helped us both, but saving Ruby was my priority."
"And what about you!?"
"I'm secondary." Weiss looked ready to burst a gasket as-
"I agree. Jaune what you say makes sense." Pyrrha spoke up as Weiss and Yang looked at her as if she had grown another arm.
"Pyrrha!?"
"Yo! P-money! We had this talk!"
"I know, but... after some thought, Jaune."
"Yes, Pyrrha?"
"I will be honest with you. I do not want you in Beacon." The room's mood already on edge dropped like a led balloon. All eyes fell on Pyrrha as Jaune gulped.
"Pyrrha? I thought you didn't mind-
"I changed my mind. I do not think a man should be a hunter."
"P-money! My dad is better than most huntresses! He could kick your ass!"
"That is beside the point partner. Jaune I do not think that men should be hunters. That is my belief, and I will not change my mind."
"I see... so you don't want to be on a team with me, then do you?"
"On the contrary, there is no one else I would rather be on a team with. While I do not agree with his choice, I believe that any job that you choose to do must be done right. A huntresses goal is to save the lives of others, even at the cost of your own. If you dye saving the life of another than your life was not lost in vain, and you should be proud of that fact." Pyrrha said bowing to Jaune a small smile on her face as Jaune returned it full force.
"You get it!"
"No, she does not! Pyrrha! This is a sexist attitude that I will not tolerate on my team!"
"Be that as it may, it is my opinion; I will not simply change it because you tell me that I am wrong. Jaune has a right to be here; I will not try to remove him from the school. If I would, I could, but that seems wrong... if he wishes to be here then fine. But he should be expected to do the same work as any huntress, and sometimes that work means dying."
"P-money I know you like honor, and all but that is ridiculous! He could have saved him and Ruby without any risk to himself!"
"Maybe, but like Jaune said he did not know who to save, nor did he know if it would work. He picked the option that would guarantee the life of another and that actions are always the correct one, in my opinion." Pyrrha finished her speech with a calm smile her melodic tone making Weiss's teeth ache.
"Pyrrha your opinion is appreciated but-
"But nothing! Jaune, you should have split the vial!"
"I didn't. And in the future, I will do the same. I thought Ruby was going to die. I will not let her die. Even if I die to stop it."
"AH! You! You are the first person to make me want to put them through a wall like this!"
"I thought you like me?"
"I do! But you are just so trusting that-
"Enough! We did not come here to yell at one another. Jaune I will be keeping a much closer eye on your until the expedition. You will not be accompanying us on the Grimm extermination."
"Because I'm a guy?"
"Because I said so. You are still too weak, and that is my decision as to your leader."
"Fine. If that's what you order, then I will follow it. You are my leader and my friend. I trust your decision."
"I... thank you Jaune. I know that I seem... pushy? But I do want only the best for you, you do know that right? I only want what is best for you right?"
"I do, but I also know that I need some sleep. I'm going to bed. I have a combat class soon, and I want to get a good night's rest before."
"It's still sunny out."
"That's fine, just be careful ok?" Weiss said ignoring Yang's comment as Sapphire spread out the various members going to their beds as Weiss took out her scroll. Winter was leaving soon, and she wanted to wish her goodbye.
"I just wish that you did not come during this... but you did help us out," Weiss muttered before sighing and taking a nap...
"So, you do care?"
"Go to hell Schnee I don't care what you think of me." Jaune's sister Catherine said as Weiss sighed, walking in lockstep with the Arc combat instructor. Weiss had the vast unfortunate of having to walk with Catherine to combat class, and she was trying to be nice...
"You do know your brother missed you in the hospital, right? He would have loved for his sister to be there to root for him and wish him well, you know?"
"If that idiot can survive a fall from an overpass he did not need me to wish him better. His skull is thicker than the ground he fell on he was fine."
"You are awfully dismissive of a near-fatal injury that your brother who you do claim to love suffered, I would expect more care from his family."
"Oh, spare me your false words Schnee, your crocodile tears are bad enough. I do not need you to act as you cared for him. He's a pawn a tool for you nothing more." Cather hissed her posture stiffening her skirt shifted like something was pulling it as Weiss sighed. Pinching her nose and tilting her head up.
"Trying to look down on me? That will be hard when I am taller than you."
"No, I am just wondering how such a caring and compassionate boy can come from a family of asses; that's all."
"Watch your mouth, Weiss! You are my student, still!"
"You teach combat class, and I am almost undefeated, who can you justify threatening me?" Weiss raised a lone eyebrow not backing down an inch as the older woman let out a snarl.
"Watch your tongue Schnee I might just want to rip it out."
"Threatening a student for making points? Very adult."
"You are the worst of your family; you know that? Your mother had the good grace to be an ass and hate my own in public. You pretend to care. You are an actor a bad one at that. Good enough for the fool I call a brother but not even close enough to fool me."
"You know that for someone who will make the argument that we are not, all the same, you are judging me based on the actions of my mother. My father is not a bad person-
"He is a male."
"Are you saying men cannot be evil? What about Roman?"
"I'm saying that they are naturally compassionate; it is in their nature to be kind. Do not try to put off years of a family feud by one new more considerate head of your rotten house? "
"You know Jaune trusts me, right? I sleep in a room with your brother every night, and I have never once done or said something to shake his own confidence in me."
"If you so much as looked at my brother in that way, let alone touched him, your head would be on my desk as a paperweight."
"Do not think I would let you have such a good reason. Jaune is my friend, nothing more."
"He is too good for you."
"You really do not want to get to know me? You want to hate me; is that right?"
"I know enough to know that Jaune met your became your partner and has almost died three times."
"You just said that he could take it."
"I know he can! But that does not mean you should! If you have a bulletproof helmet on, do you just shot yourself in the head to get an itch? No! That is insane! I care for my brother."
"Not according to him." Weiss let her words sink in as Catherine paused her eyes went wide as saucers as her mouth gaped.
"What did you say?"
"I said that Jaune himself told me that your whole family or the women at least do not care for him that much." Weiss let her words fall of her tongue as Catherine looked like she had been stabbed.
"I... what? Why?"
"Oh, I don't know... something about training?"
"Training? We trained him from a child! We did our best to train him in the way of the sword!"
"Even when it was clear that he would not use a sword."
"That is the Arc way! It is a tradition!"
"Was it tradition for Bleu to get a custom sniper rifle grenade launcher? Or for Clair to get twin pistol scythes? Was it traditions for every other member of the family to get expensive custom built weapons when they did not wish to pick up a sword."
"You do not know what you are talking about!"
"I know that Jaune said he felt like you hit him awfully hard when you spared with him. It was almost like you were trying to make him learn something, to teach him a lesson, perhaps? That hunting was not right for him even if you had to beat that lesson deep into his own skull?"
"You are treading dangerous waters, Schnee. You do not know what you are talking about!"
"I know that he told me that he had bruises on his arms every night. And he felt that he was not getting a training session but more of a beatdown. I wonder why? Is beating Jaune better than helping him?"
"You were not there! He is my brother, and I was doing what I thought was best for him. My mother-
"I should have known your mother as involved. I see why Jaune ran away as he did."
"You are an insolent wench; you know that?"
"At least Jaune thinks I'm family unlike you."
"What did you say!?"
"I did not stutter," Weiss said as they two of them turned into the final stretch walking to the combat arena as Catherine fumed.
"This is not over Schnee."
"I would not dream of it," Weiss said as they walked inside as the women seethed...
"The first match! Jaune Arc!"
"Oh, boy." Jaune yawned pumping the air as he boxed shadows.
"Who's next?" Jaune asked already taking out one of his satchels catching it in his hand yawning loudly as the wheel spun rotating rapidly as-
"Versus! Yang Xiao-long!"
"Fuck me." Jaune moaned as he heard a low laugh and the cracking of knuckles.
"After this sure," Yang said, putting a hand on his shoulder as she lead Jaune into the arena.
"Ok! You both know what to do. Ring out, aura drop or however the hell you do this. Don't kill or permanent harm the other and begin!"
Catherine said as Jaune backed off, jumping back, expecting an attack as Yang stood still smiling, she opened her arms as a low evil grin left her face.
"Come on Jaune! Just give it up! You know you want me!"
"YANG!"
"Sorry, mom!" Yang whimpered Raven glared death at her child as Tain tried to calm her, rubbing her back as Summer who was sitting by Ruby not looking at her daughter who was looked squarely down to her feet.
"Jaune, you can do it!"
"P-money!? I thought I was your partner!?" Yang looked betrayed as Jaune say it.
Now! He thought tossing a corrosive bomb right at her Yang spun an arm right away she friend a loud bang filled the room as a cloud of toxic dust emerged hanging heavily like a burst sack of flour Yang shot to the left, not at Jaune like a rocket. Making sure to avoid the cloud but keeping Jaune in her sights.
"Come on, Yang! Don't you wanna attack?"
"Want to yes, will I? Also yes! But not how you want me to." Yang took another defensive pose as she raised her fists.
"Come on, Yang! Not strong enough to take down a boy?"
"Oh, I'm plenty strong, but you need a more... gentle touch." Yang said with a wicked grin as she began to walk?
Yang walked forward to Jaune arms held wide like she was going to hug him?
"Yang? What the hell are you doing?" Jaune asked as Yang smirked she had him figured out. She knew how to deal with his bombs, but the odds of Jaune just charging her and taking her out was slim but still in the realm of possibility. She needed a way a quick and easy way to defeat him and what better way than to hug him?
If I hug him, he can't get way walk to the end of the arena after giving him a nice face first view of the girls before I drop him off and bam! I win me a man! Yang thought as she continued her slow, inexorable advance.
Jaune paused, backing up as he saw Yang walk, not run up to him. Arms held wide a wide, crooked smile on her lips as he paused.
The fuck are you doing? Jaune thought as he tossed two more bombs at her. Yang blasted them out of mid-air before continuing her walk shooting to the left waiting for the dust to clear out as she smirked.
"That the best you got?"
"Come at me and see for yourself! You won't get anywhere walking!"
"Nah, I can come for you just fine like this," Yang said as she took her time.
Jaune was running out of options Yang was circling him like a shark did a seal missing a flipper.
Jaune's satchels were running dangerously lown only ten more corrosive and five shook ones left. The others were a bit too... extreme for friendly fighting, and Yang just kept walking...
It's like she is just fucking toying with me! Hell, she is toying with me dammit! Jaune thought as he began to think harder soon he would run out of ammunition Yang had more ammo than he had satchels once he was out Yang would charge, and it would all be over.
I can win this! I just-
"What's the matter Jaune running low on ammo? Don't worry, I'll make sure to finish you with a bang." Yang licked her lips as-
That's it! Finish her with a bang! Jaune had a plan it was, but it might just work.
Jaune took a deep breath before finally deciding to go all in.
"Take this!" Jaune yelled as he threw all of his satchels at Yang. Jaune tossed every last one at her, making Yang pause.
"Going out big, huh? I like it!" She yelled as Jaune pelted her he tossed all ten satchels at her making the girl blast them apart in massive clouds of green!
Yellow and green slashed as a cloud of toxic dust that filled the majority of the arena came out-
"Not so fast!" Yang put her fists to the ground, launching herself into the air with a bang! She knew Jaune would try something crazy probably darting out of the dust to tackle her or some crazy ring out plan.
"Not so fast lover, boy!" Yang said as she soared up, Jaune was nowhere to be seen, not on either side of the dust cloud as Yang smirked.
"I got you lover! Here I come!" Yang screamed she knew that Jaune was in the middle of that could probably darting through it as Yang spun once in the air her body become a flaming meteor as she slammed into the down with a massive BOOM!
Yang slammed into the ground, like a red meteor, crashing into the ground with a massive thunderclap that broke across the room causing the dust cloud to evaporate in a wall of fire! The dust shot up coating her in the now dissipated powder making the entire air thick with the thin irritants Yang saw Jaune standing in the center smiling ear to ear as he-
"Hah! I-
"Got you," Jaune said as he tossed five of the stun satchels in the air, the deceives sailed lazily as Yang sighed.
"To easy!" Yang hissed as she raised her arms ready to blast Jaune's hopes of being single out of the air on one swift motion!
"Same here," Jaune said as Yang shot them and the arena became alive...
Jaune had taken a risk, making the massive dust cloud was one thing, making Yang become baited into slamming down like a meteor was another. Yang had covered her body in the thick caustic dust and now that she and the air were covered in it?
"Boom," Jaune said as yang fired the satchels burst and the arena exploded. It was like a lightning storm erupted in the middle of the stage. The air so thick with caustic that when the catalyst hit it? It exploded like a storm had appeared, harsh flashes of yellow lightning shot into the air firing out as the dust began to ignite. There was a static charge that filled the air Jaune felt his hairs stand on end before his entire world erupted int a cataclysm of yellow light.
"What!? Jaune the f- AIIIEEEEE!" Yang screamed all that alight stuck down to the nearby focal point Jaune suit kept him from conduit the dust as Yang being the most eager conductor the conduit AKA Yang was struck down by over three dozen angry bolts of lightning as she screamed!
Jaune winced Yang looked like no she had become a living lightning rod; every ounce of dust seemed to collect on her as the lightning struck her aura went from full to nil in a second!
Yang was electrocuted shocked fizzled turning into a bolt of yellow and spat back ten feet her face black as soot her hair broken and frayed aura in the red-
"Winner! Jaune!" Catherine said a natural smile on her face.
"That was a damned good fight Jaune, I did not think you could do that I am impressed," Catherine said a genuine smile on her face her brother did well and-
Yang stood up her body shaking coughing up thick black soot. She gagged standing up on shaky legs, her hair... he once proud luscious blonde hair was black as pitch her roots frayed and split clean down the middle.
"My... my hair..." Yang said her eyes wide as saucers tears flowing down her face; her hair was brittle hard and black to the roots. No long soft or luscious nut hard brittle and the color of her mothers.
"Yang report here for-
It snapped... fully half of Yang's hair snapped become dust, half of Yang one lush main evaporated falling into thick black dust onto the ground that soon flew off into nothingness fully half of Yang's hair vanished as she looked like she had been shot! Yang blink in sheer disbelief her eyes fluttering before a low squeak left her mouth before-
HEAT. Jaune felt the pure wave of heat that flowed from Yang her body became a literal bonfire her eyes flashed a bloody red her knuckles cracked; she looked at Jaune even without aura her semblance seemed to have kicked on powered by sheer force of will and RAGE.
"Ummm, Yang? Are you ok?" Jaune asked backing off as Yang' head snapped to face him her body shaking tremors of rage going through her body as-
"ARC!" Yang screamed her voice filled with bloody murder as
Jaune whimpered.
"Yes!? No hard feelings, right!? Friend!"
"YOU ARE DEAD! Do you hear me!? D! E! A! D! DEAD!"
"UM! Catherine! Please! Help me!" Jaune said as his sister looked at him, then at Yang then back at him and-
"You can have two minutes," Catherine said, looking away from them as Yang growled.
"I only deen half of one!" She screamed as she began to sprint.
"Yang!? Yang?! Back up!"
"Get back here, Arc! I am going to strangle you!" Yang screamed as she began to sprint after Jaune. The boy screamed as Yang started to chase him arms outstretched as she sprinted after him.
"Yang!"
"Jaune!"
"Yang, wait! We can talk, right!?"
"You are dead!"
"Weiss!" Jaune screamed as Weiss rolled her eyes, shaking her head as she sighed.
"Jaune! Just run out of the arena! She can't follow you out!" Weiss the ever center of reason said as-
"I"ll follow you until you die! You are dead!"
"Pyrrha!?"
"Jaune a woman's hair is critical to her, you know?" Pyrrha admonished hiding a laugh behind her hand as Jaune whimpered.
"Break his legs, Yang! Show him what happens when you mess with a woman's hair!" Nora screamed as Jaune and Yang proceed to run in circles Jaune screaming Yang growling threatening bodily harm.
Catherine just back off smirking as Yang chased Jaune the boy squirming in and out of her Jane proved to be oddly limber squeezing in and out of Yangs' slides and tackles. Jaune proved to be a slippery enemy as-
"Stand, still!"
"You are going to kill me!"
"Not that hard!"
"You are going to kill me!"
"Just let me fucking kill you! Ok?!"
"NO!" Jaune screamed before Yang finally got enough aura to shoot her gauntlets, tackling Jaune into a corner! Yang pinned Jaune down after tumbling twenty feet she ripped off his bird mask her face half black half pale sweat having washed off some of the shoot she looked like an opera mask as she growled her eyes blood red as-
Yang kissed him. She slammed her lips down at once, kissing Jaune hard on his own. There was a gasp from the stand as Jaunes eyes went wide as saucers muffled scream left him as-
"Yang Xiao-long Branwen! What do you think you are doing!?" Raven screamed as Catherine drew her blade.
"Get your hands-
Any talk was stopped as Jaune wrapped his arms around Yang's head, his legs wrapping around her back as Jaune began to kiss her back. Catherine paused, as any doubt that the kiss was consensual was thrown out the wide the two tees made out kissing roughly as-
"Yeah! Go, girl! Get your man!" Nora wolf whistle loudly as she leaned over the stns nose bleeding and hand gripping Ren so hard he thought that his aura might break!
"Nora-
"Yang!?" Ruby squealed as Summer blushed Tai smiled, sighing heavily and Raven rolled her eyes.
"Why does my daughter have to be the dunce?" She asked as Yang apparently somehow having grown tired of waiting lifted a still kissing Jaune up and walking him out of the arena.
"Where are you going!? You need evaluation!" Catherine yelled as Yang ignored her cries sprinting carrying Jaune back to the dorm room slamming the door closed and locking it shut, tossing Jaune onto the first bed she could and then pouncing on him never once breaking her liplock and tore his and her own clothes off...
AN: So there we go! Jaune and Yang are now together at the cost of her hair! The Mount Glen expedition is next! And soon we will see just what happens when you pick the easy road in life! All this on the next The Apprentice! Bastion is up next then either BRave Sir Robinson or something else... Untill next time!