It was the next morning and Jaune decided it would be one of the rare occasions that he'd sleep in. He had nothing to do today and after reforging Kakiri with assistance from Ruby, he felt like he earned it. He was enjoying the peace until life decided to throw a wrench into his plans. That wrench being the one and only Nora Valkyrie.
"Wake up, Fearless Leader!" She shouted as she belly flopped onto Jaune. He had the air knocked out of him and was knocked off onto the floor. He was groaning as he stood up and just stared at Nora as she sat on his bed in her pajamas with a proud smile on her face.
"Nora, why? I never sleep in, so why would you wake me up?" He asked tiredly and bummed that he was woken up.
Nora tilted her head and thought for a second before she shrugged, "Because I never get to wake you up. So I can't resist to do it when I can." She said with her usual smile. Jaune wiped a hand down his face and sighed, it was too soon to deal with Nora with this much energy. He hadn't even gotten his coffee yet. He looked to see Pyrrha already dressed and at her desk reading. He could also hear the shower going and realized that's where Ren was. "By the way, Jaune, what happened to you yesterday? You just disappeared and didn't come back til late. You weren't off on another adventure without us again, right?" She stood on his bed and pointed an accusing finger at him.
Jaune just rolled his eyes before grabbing the tip of her finger with his index and thumb. As she looked at her finger confused, he smirked and pulled her legs out from under her. She fell onto the bed again and Jaune was on top of her with a pillow. "Wanna wake me up, huh?" he said with the same smirk before he started beating her with the pillow. Nora tried to get out from under Jaune but she couldn't and she couldn't reach for a pillow to use as her own weapon. She quickly looked to Pyrrha who was watching with a smile on her face.
Nora quickly held her hand out to Pyrrha, "Pyrrha! Help me! You're my only hope!" Pyrrha looked at Nora then Jaune before she picked up her own pillow and threw it at Jaune like she would her shield. Jaune looked up just in time to have it hit him in the face. He fell off Nora and onto the floor, again. He looked at her from his spot on the floor, she was trying not to laugh.
"Traitor." Was all he said before Pyrrha started to giggle and shrugged.
He quickly looked up and saw Nora jumping into the air with the pillow above her head. "Nora Bomb!" is what she shouted as she was coming down. Jaune's eyes widened and he quickly rolled under his bed before Nora landed on him. While she was distracted he rolled under the bed right next to his, which happened to be Pyrrha's, and waited. Nora was tip toeing around his bed until she was between Jaune's and Pyrrha's.
"Oh, Jaune!" she said in a sing song voice. "Come on out, I won't hurt you." She started to lean down to look under his bed but as soon as she did, Jaune's hands shot out from under Pyrrha's bed and grabbed her ankles. She yelped in surprise before Jaune started to pull her under Pyrrha's bed. As soon as she was under the bed, Jaune started to tickle her relentlessly. All you could hear was Nora laughing like a madwoman and Jaune chuckling evilly. Soon Nora's hands shot out from under the foot of Pyrrha's bed and started to pull herself out while she was still laughing. She looked to Pyrrha again. "Save me!" she was trying to say through her laughing fit.
She started to get pulled back under with Jaune saying in a cliché evil voice, "There's no escape for you, Miss Valkyrie." Nora started to claw at the carpet trying to stop herself from being pulled back down into that tickle hell.
"No! Please, Jaune, I'm sorry! Please, forgive me!" She shouted in a last attempt to be freed. She stopped being pulled and she relaxed slightly. Until a sudden yank pulled her back under.
"Never!" was all Jaune shouted before he started to resume his tickling. Pyrrha was just laughing at the two. Ren soon exited the bathroom and heard the laughing but couldn't see his teammates. He looked to Pyrrha with a raised eyebrow and all she did was point under her bed. Ren just sighed and shook his head slightly with a small smile on his face. Soon the laughing stopped and Jaune climbed out from under the bed. He was dusting himself off with a smile on his face. He then went to get his clothes for the day.
"So, Jaune. What did happen to you yesterday?" Pyrrha asked now that he was awake now and not tickling Nora to death.
"I went to the forge to fix my sheathes." He pointed to them still on his desk. "Ruby showed up not long after that to work on Crescent Rose. After we were both done, she helped me improve my weapons."
At this point, Nora was slowly dragging herself out from under the bed. She was breathing raggedly but slowly turned to Jaune, "You…you haven't improved them in a while…what did you do?" she asked tiredly.
Jaune simply put his clothes on his bed before he went over to his desk. He put his right glove on and applied pressure with his middle finger and Kakiri's handle deployed. He drew it and showed his teammates. "We reforged Kakiri into a broadsword." He surrounded its blade in fire to show them. "And it looks so badass." He said with a smile.
They all looked at it and agreed. "But why, Jaune?" Ren asked. "You seemed fine with the short sword version. Why change it?"
Jaune just smirked before dismissing the flames. He drew Fukiri and attached it to Kakiri before doing the same with Dokiri. He turned around to show him his latest sword. "I needed to add a new sword to my collection. Jinkiri."
All three just stared in awe. Nora quickly got up and ran before stopping in front of Jaune just staring at the bastard sword. "Wow. Jaune, it's so big. It's so long and so thick." she said this out loud in a mesmerized tone.
Jaune was about to say something until their door flew open and Jaune reacted on instinct. He held his new sword to the throat of the intruder. Who appeared to be a wide eyed Weiss, just staring in shock at the blade at her neck. Jaune just sighed before he rested his sword on his shoulder. "Oum, Weiss, be careful. That could've gone bad. And why the hell did you kick our door in?" He motioned to the door. All Weiss did was just stare until RWBY's door opened up and the rest of her the team came out.
"What is going on? Some of us were trying to sleep." Yang said slightly annoyed.
Jaune shrugged, "Don't know. Weiss just kicked our door in and I almost tested my new blade on her." The other three girls looked to see his new sword. They were all shocked, Blake and Yang to see the new blade and Ruby to hear Weiss almost got hurt. Until everyone went back to looking at Weiss. She finally seemed to come back to reality.
She cleared her throat nervously, "You were being loud. I was going to ask you to be quieter. But when I was about to knock, I heard Nora say something…. indecent. So my mind, jumped to a conclusion and before I knew it, I kicked your door in." She finished sheepishly and looked away.
Jaune just looking at her while her teammates were in disbelief. "Uh, I was just showing my team my new sword that Ruby helped me with." He looked over to her for a second. "I'll be baking you those cookies today by the way, Rosebud." He said with a smile and she had a light blush but smiled regardless. Jaune turned back to Weiss. "Besides, as I've stated before, there is nothing between me and Nora beside sibling love. Nothing romantic."
Nora walked up next to him and hugged him, "Yeah! Jaune is just my brother and Fearless Leader! I love him but not like that, that would be weird!" She looked up to him with her head tilted slightly, "Right?"
Jaune nodded, "It would be pretty weird." He turned back to their sister team. "So, we good?" They nodded. "Great. Let me and Nora shower so we can all meet up in the cafeteria for breakfast." He was about to close to the door but stopped. "And please don't kick our door in again. What if next time I'm naked?" This caused the girls to blush at that before he closed the door. Jaune put his swords away and showered before dressing in his usual clothes.
The day went by normally. They relaxed mostly and just enjoyed their time off. Around midday, Jaune baked Ruby her cookies and she thanked him profusely. Both teams went to the library later to have some fun. Jaune and Ren paired up to play some shogi with Nora and Ruby watching and adding some unique color commentary. While Weiss and Pyrrha had a game of chess right next to them. Blake was reading close by watching both games and Yang was trying to amuse herself by trying to distract the four people concentrating on their respective games. They pretty much ignored her, until Yang hugged Jaune tightly from behind and pushed her breasts against his back. While whispering something into his ear. This caused him to blush like mad and jump up quickly to get away, but this also caused him to accidentally knock over the table. To say the pieces to the games went everywhere would be an understatement.
Later that night, Jaune and Pyrrha went to the roof for one of their usual spars. Only this time Jaune was using his new bastard sword. He was trying to get used to the weight and trying to slowly master it. Pyrrha helped him out, giving him advice and helping him with his stance. By the end of their spar, Jaune had a good idea on how he would fight with Jinkiri. But he had a way to go. He also felt like Pyrrha was distracted during most of the day. The two of them were sitting on the edge of the roof and were drinking from their water bottles.
"Thanks, Pyrrha. I think I've got a better idea on my fighting style. Although, I do feel bad that we focused a bit more on me than you."
Pyrrha quickly waved it off, "It's fine, Jaune. Next time you can make it up to me by fighting me without your Semblance. I wouldn't mind that rematch from Combat Class." She smiled lightly.
He returned the smile, "You got it." They had a comfortable silence before Jaune decided to bring it up. "So, what's been bothering you?" She looked like she was going to deny it but Jaune just put his hand up. "You know I won't leave it be til you tell me. So, what's up?"
She looked away for a second before she looked back, "I've just been thinking about Nora and Ren using your swords. Why didn't you tell me they could do that?"
Jaune sheepishly scratched the back of his head, "To be honest, it slipped my mind." She looked at him shocked and he continued, "Since we lived outside the Kingdoms, I wanted to make sure that no one could wield my swords besides those I trust. So, they are designed to only respond to certain auras to make sure of that. The only respond to myself, Nora and Ren. But we haven't had to resort to it in a while, so I just didn't say anything."
Pyrrha looked away and slowly nodded, "I see. People you trust. That makes sense." She said this in a sad voice but before Jaune could say anything, she had stood up. "I should really go shower and head to bed. Good night, Jaune." She looked at him with a smile and said it in a cheery voice, but Jaune knew Pyrrha had faked it. He had just hurt her. Next thing he knew, she was by the door and heading back into the dorms.
He face palmed before he sighed, "I'm an idiot. Of course the way I had to phrase it would be the thing to hurt her." He looked up at the fractured moon, "I have to make this up to her. And the only way is what I should've done a long time ago." He nodded to himself and waited on the roof. He wanted to give Pyrrha her space. After about half an hour or so, he went down and found his team asleep. He went to shower before heading to bed.
He woke up the next morning at 5. He got out of bed and went over to Pyrrha to gently shake her awake. She soon woke up and looked at Jaune, she rubbed her eyes before saying tiredly, "Jaune? What's wrong?"
He put his finger to his lip and quietly said, "Come with me, this is important." She looked at him confused before she nodded. She followed as he grabbed his swords and left the dorm. They made their way to the roof and the whole way Pyrrha was wondering what was going on. As they got there, Jaune sat down, cross-legged close to the edge. He pulled his swords in their sheathes onto his lap before he motioned for Pyrrha to do the same across from him. She followed his example and waited to see what would happen.
He just looked at her for a bit before he took a deep breath. "First, I want to apologize, Pyrrha. I made it sound like I don't trust you but that can't be further from the truth. I trust you just as much as Ren and Nora. So to make it up to you, I'm gonna do something I should've done a long time ago." He took out his scroll and typed away at it, until a spot just above where the servo is located opened up, revealing a scanner. Pyrrha looked up at him and he explained, "Just put your hand on the scanner and when I tell you, send a bit of your aura into it." He gave her a small smile. She nodded and slowly placed her hand on the scanner before looking back to him.
He took a deep breath, "I, Jaune Arc, give you this choice. To be one of few that can wield these blades. To use them in my stead and to stand beside me. These swords are my creations and in some way, my very life. Do you accept this honor and this curse?" He just looked at her with a serious look and waited for her answer.
Without hesitation she replied. "I, Pyrrha Nikos, accept both this honor and this curse. I pledge to use these blades in your stead and to stand beside you. I will use these swords to defend you and your life. I pledge my very life on this."
Jaune smiled lightly and nodded. She did the same before she sent her aura into the scanner. After a few seconds the sheathes and blades started to glow red, like her aura, until it disappeared. She took her hand away and the panel closed. Jaune shifted the sheathes so the handles would point towards Pyrrha. "Draw a sword and honor this oath." She held her hand above the handles and one deployed. She looked to Jaune and he nodded, she gripped it and drew Dokiri as she did, the sun broke over the horizon. It illuminated both of them in a golden light. Jaune looked over at it and smiled, "Perfect timing."
Pyrrha just looked at Jaune, as his eyes and hair seemed to shine with the light of the new day. She blushed at how handsome he looked right now. She returned Dokiri to its sheathe before she sat next to him. He attached them to his back and sat there watching the sunrise with Pyrrha, "So did I make up for being an idiot?"
She giggled slightly, "I would say so." She leaned her head on his shoulder, "Thank you for trusting me, Jaune."
"It wasn't hard, Pyrrha. I've always trusted you but I decided to show you, rather than just tell you." He smiled.
"By the way, was that oath actually part of the process?" She asked slightly tired.
Jaune chuckled slightly, "Nope. I just have a flare for the dramatics." He expected Pyrrha to either laugh or hit him gently. He looked to see that she fell asleep. He just smiled and slowly brought her into his arms to carry her bridal style. "Let's get you back to bed." Was all he said as he carried her back to their room. He tucked her into her bed and she had the most peaceful and happy expression he's seen to date.