Disclaimers: I got sued for $500 last chapter due to not putting up a disclaimers, because that's how important it is for me to make sure that no one on the internet believes that some no life on here owns a popular series that everyone would know about if they clicked on "Anime/Manga" then "RWBY".
Kappa.
Jaune wasn't afraid of too much.
He was anxious about heights.
He had a natural reluctance to die.
He was understandably wary of paranormal stuff.
However, all of those things he listed would cower in fear in front of the girl that is known as Yang, as she held him up by his shirt.
Like what his great grand pappy once said "Hell hath no fury like an angry woman."
"I'll ask once more." Yang said with an emotionless visage.
"What did you do to my little sister…?" Yang said with a voice that betrayed her expression.
"W-what are you talking about? You can't just ask out of nowhere what I've done with your little sister, since I've done a lot of things with her!" Jaune answered wrongly.
The lack of context merely made her slam Jaune against a wall with enough brutality that Cardin felt some sort of good karma as he was walking towards the nurses office.
"YOU DID WHAT?!" She screeched, causing Jaune to wonder how unfair karma was.
"Yang! Stop! You're hurting him!" Ruby yelled as she can already see Jaune's soul slowly coming out of his lifeless body.
"How DARE he do anything of that sort of action towards you! I don't care who or what he is, I will make sure he NEVER wants to do that again!" She yelled.
"I don't even know what the fuck I did! I am a victim here!" Jaune said to try and defend himself.
Luckily his team was nearby and decided that having a crippled team leader probably wouldn't help them.
"Yang, calm down, I'm sure this is all a misunderstanding." Pyrrha said, though she didn't sound too sure herself.
"At least make it sound convincing!" Jaune yelled as Yang loosened her grip a bit, but still staring him down with the power of a thousand suns.
"I'll ask this, what were you doing during your "spar" with Ruby?" She asked in a low voice once more.
"You're mad at me for THAT?!" Jaune asked incredulously. "If anyone should be mad, it should be ME! The entire time, she just ran around, not letting me catch her and here you are getting mad at ME when I couldn't even lay a SINGLE hand on her?!"
Jaune was still suffering from a sort of PTSD from his many attempts of trying to catch Ruby.
Yang blinked, a bit surprised at his answer.
"W-wha?" She asked.
"We were sparring and I broke after the umpteenth time of trying to catch your little sister, because she wanted to say "Hey, I have a semblance so let's make Jaune's life a living hell by teasing him with chances to try and get me, because I want to be just as annoying as an Abra from Pokemon!" Jaune answered without trying to hide the disdain in his voice.
Yang did not let up though.
"So the entire time you decided to try and get a handful of my sister, eh?!" Yang asked, with some fury returning.
"Yes! Because I couldn't even get a single hand on her to make it a spar, it ended up as a game of tag! Why don't you try to fucking do something like I did without getting frustrated in the process?!" Jaune yelled as he pushed Yang's arm away.
"I feel like there's some context missing here, but for the life of me, I'm just going to watch. I don't need more years of my life shaved off from trying to fix this." Ren said as Nora was holding up Jaune banners to push him forward.
"Go, Leader! A few weeks in and you're already on the older sister! You really know how to get em!" She said cheerfully as Ren sighed.
Pyrrha, being the only voice of reason that had the energy and mentality to do so, decided to break this apart.
"Yang, Jaune was just trying to do his best in a spar so that he can try and get Ruby after many failed attempts to do so. You can't expect anything else since it was a spar that both agreed to have. Now please let my partner go or we'll be late to our next class." The Spartan said reasonably.
Yang merely glared at Jaune, not trusting him to have done anything pure as a "simple spar", but let him down anyways.
"I'm watching you, Sunshine, so you better be careful of what you try to do." Yang said as she walked out.
Ruby let out a sigh of relief, glad that it didn't get any worse, before smiling and saying goodbye to her other friends.
"Sorry about that, I don't even know why she was mad myself, but see you guys in the next class, don't be late!" She said with a cheerful smile as she quickly went to catch up with her sister and other team mates who left early.
"Thank's Pyrrha, though you could've cleared that up much faster than that, you know?" Jaune said as he fixed his clothes.
"You're right, I could've." Pyrrha said simply as she walked towards the exit. "Now quit complaining, so we can get to the next class, oh glorious leader."
"Sarcasm is unbecoming of you." Jaune said dryly, as he followed after her.
"That's the pot calling the kettle black." Ren said as Nora boo'd at there not being more action.
"Shut up, Ren. I don't need this from you right now, I just dealt with a massive blow to my pride today." Jaune said as he looked down.
"Oh? When was that?" Ren asked.
"Around the time Cardin managed to hit me. I was doing so well too." He answered.
"Well, he is a team leader too, so he has to have something at least." Ren said trying to reassure Jaune that he didn't do too bad.
"Alright, fair enough, thanks." Jaune said as a grin returned to his face.
"Just doing what a bro does." Ren answered as their team exited together.
Later that day
Jaune can be seen being abnormally quiet as everyone ate lunch together.
This dissonant serenity really bothered his "friends" as he would usually make a cynical remark, a stupid statement or even something sarcastic when they were talking.
"Hey, Jaune is something wrong? Yang didn't break your voice box while she was bullying you, did she?" The ever adorable Ruby asked, as Jaune looked up at her.
"He hit me." Jaune said with no emotion in his voice.
"What? Who did?" Pyrrha asked, a bit worried about her partner's behavior.
Someone like Jaune was getting this strange over being hit by someone?
"I got hit by Cardin!" Jaune exclaimed. "That can't be! I'm like the main character if this was a series! Me getting hit by Cardin would be like Johnny Cage beating up Scorpion and Sub-Zero!"
"Um, Jaune, I have some news for you about the Mortal Kombat X game." Ren said a bit nervously.
"Oh yeah, I never got to play it, what's up?" Jaune asked.
"Johnny Cage does beat up Scorpion and Sub-Zero, at the same time." Ren answered.
"… What the heck is this world coming to? That's like Dan beating up Ryu!" Jaune said.
"Yang, what are they talking about?" Ruby asked, having gotten lost in the conversation.
"Nerd talk, sis. Something that happens frequently among boys." Yang answered.
"Hmph, I don't see what you 2 are going on about, since Johnny Cage A-List is a higher tier than almost every version of Scorpion and Sub-Zero." Weiss huffed.
There was a deafening silence, as everyone except Blake, Nora and Ruby stared at her.
"W-what? Why are you all staring?" Weiss asked with a blush.
"What you just said seemed to have destroyed their mental perception of you, so they are currently recovering from what you said, while their mind is quickly fixing said mental image of you." Blake answered.
"S-sorry, you just don't seem the type to… um…" Yang began.
"To have fun. Oh my god, Snow Princess, if I knew about this sooner, I wouldn't be trying to raise Pyrrha into the gamer girl of my dreams!" Jaune said bluntly, earning him a smack from an annoyed but blushing Pyrrha.
"What do you mean "raise Pyrrha"? I'm not some sort of pet!" Pyrrha yelled.
"Why are you making the assumption that I'd ever even get with a peasant like you?" Weiss asked seriously.
Jaune merely stared at them both, before answering.
"Because currently, I'm the only guy in this school that you know that is single and isn't an outright jerk. Naturally, after the exposure effect takes place, one of you females will be attracted if not more than one, so yeah, I'd like to say the basis of my claim isn't unreasonable at least." Jaune said as he put on a pair of glasses.
Blake, being the only one who understood what he was saying, was the only one to respond to his statement.
"That may be true, but you also need to remember that our current group of friends isn't going to stay the same like this, most likely, some other guys will become a part of this group and you won't be the only guy in our group that has the chance to attract one of us." She politely said, flipping another page in her book.
"W-wha? But don't you guys feel any sort of loyalty to your first male friend?" Jaune asked.
Everyone except Ruby answered immediately.
"No."
Jaune fell in depression.
"First my pride as a fighter and now my pride as a male…" Jaune said gloomily.
Ruby, the only one who was lost in the conversation, patted Jaune's back with her million watt smile.
"Don't worry, Jaune! I'll always be your friend even if you everyone else hates you!" Ruby said.
"Aw, Ruby, you're so sweet, maybe I should go the Ruby route… The Blake and Pyrrha route has nothing but pain and sadness for me…" Jaune said, before Yang appeared behind Ruby, glowing with an evil smile and dark aura.
"Or, I can make my ancestor's proud and leave your innocent untainted beauty to blossom by itself!" Jaune immediately answered.
He would love to go toe to toe against Yang to see who the more dominant blonde is, but he knew then and there that Yang wouldn't be playing fair.
Sometimes, it sucks to have such a glaring weakness all because of anatomy.
Eventually the bell rang with Jaune not feeling any better and everyone went to class for yet another lecture.
JNPR Dorm
Jaune was laying on his bed, playing some Pokemon to pass the time, as everyone else did their own thing.
Pyrrha was doing her homework, while Ren was helping Nora with hers.
He on the other hand was going to do his homework as soon as he got into class, by copying off whoever he knew would be finished with it.
Of course, he had to be sneaky about it, since his own team mates have decided to make it a goal for Jaune to fail class, by making sure he can't copy off any of them during class.
This lead to some desperate situations where he had to guess what the answers are from the limited knowledge he had, but that was another story altogether.
That wasn't the current problem though.
The current problem was how Pyrrha kept glancing back at him with a look of… hopefulness?
Longing?
Some type of emotion like that?
Though this might seem like your standard "girl develops a crush over a boy", it really wasn't.
Jaune spoke up. "You can always do your work tomorrow, if you really want to play some more games."
Honestly, who knew Pyrrha would develop such an interest over video games like that?
Pyrrha however merely looked away with a huff.
"I don't know what you're talking about. Unlike you, I have work to do and can't bother myself to slack off." She said not at all similarly to a certain Schnee.
Jaune responded by turning up the volume of his game, making sure Pyrrha can hear the music and pokemon battles.
Pyrrha could only fidget as she continued her homework.
She really wanted to play, but at this point, it was her pride on the line!
She can't prove Jaune right!
A world where Jaune was right is a world she did not want to live in!
While Pyrrha was stuck in her own mind rambling, Ren spoke up.
"Hey, Jaune, which game you got?" Ren asked as Nora began doing what Ren said to do about her homework with vigour.
"Oh, I got X, can't really afford ORAS right now." Jaune answered.
"Hey, what shinies you got?" Ren asked.
"Oh, you know, standard mainstream pokemon shinies everyone wants, Charizard, Latios, Gyarados." Jaune replied.
"Sounds nice, want to trade or battle soon? I have work, but I can do it whenever." Ren asked.
Jaune smirked, knowing how this conversation happened as he answered.
"Yeah, sure man, I'd love to play more games with you, how about you Nora?" Jaune looked over to the orange haired Valkyrie.
"Sure, Jauney! Ooo! I want to play some Castle Crashers! NO! Maybe Super Smash Bros? No wait, Mario Party!" Nora already getting hyped up began speaking.
"Oh, wait right there. No. Mario Party is a game that ruins friendships." Jaune said as Ren nodded.
"But it'll be fuuun, I'm sure if we play together, our trust won't break that easily!" Nora whined.
"The moment you steal all of my coins, I swear, I will replace you with Ruby…" Jaune said darkly.
"Fiiiiiine! How about Mario Kart?" Nora suggested.
"The moment you get a blue shell and I'm in first place, I swea-" Jaune began.
"How about we just play a team game? Nothing too competitive?" Ren suggested, not really too keen on letting Jaune and Nora interact like that.
"Sounds fine, we can all take a break right now, except Pyrrha who has to finish up with her homework." Jaune said with a big grin.
"Alright, sounds like everyone's happy, have fun with that, Pyrrha." Ren said with an amused smile.
"Yaaaaay! Team JNR game time while the P does work!" Nora said excitedly.
All the while, Pyrrha could do nothing, but continue doing her homework, crying.
Omake
Pyrrha readied herself.
She had managed to endure Jaune's first brutal test, but now she is accustomed to it.
She can take anything he can do now and keep going.
There was nothing that he could do to her that she isn't used to now.
While Pyrrha was pep talking herself, Jaune was looking over his game lists to see what would be a fun game for him to watch Pyrrha play.
As he scrolled through his list of games, his eyes fell upon a rom online.
Superman 64.
Jaune could only grin as Pyrrha was oblivious to the new kind of torture he was going to put her through.
Whoa, a chapter that was posted in less than a week? Does this mean something?
No, it doesn't. I just randomly had the time and effort to be able to write this.
But other than that, here's some feedback.
1: I did not notice that anything I bold on here will not be bold on the website. Weird.
2: Got some feedback for Jaune's semblance/who he should have a relationship with. You all seem to want some adorable Ruby action and as for semblance, there were some interesting options. Such as making Jaune more of a berserker than what he already is or something that'll go hand in hand with his personality, like his dark mindset on the world or his bloodthirsty tendencies. This all gave me a sort of idea, but I won't be copying any of what you guys said completely.
3: I'm in bronze 1 on League after winning 8/10 of my provisional. I'm depressed. I don't even feel like trying to make myself feel better by getting out of Bronze. So while I try to fix that SOMEHOW, I'll try to not be as slow on getting these chapters out. No promises.
Anyways, that's all really.
Rojo out!