Jealousy

Author note I own nothing rooster owns RWBY. I don't have the luxury; otherwise, I would have restarted the story from scratch by now, but that's just me. As always, show your support for Lancaster week.

Yang had to know! It was like something out of someone's worse nightmare or maybe the star of one of mine, but the only thing is I keep pinching myself, and I can still keep seeing the mob scene in front of my eyes. I wiped my eyes twice, and I still saw it. Ruby Rose was being crowded by male admirers. And Yang wasn't breaking it up. Blake wasn't even concerned, and Weiss seemed to be in the same boat as the other two reading a book on the lawn on a picnic blanket instead of helping their teammate. Ruby looked uncomfortable with the amount of attention and the flirtation. I knew I had to act or allow this to continue. Walking up to her sister, who was lying out reading some celebrity magazine, I notice that there were some famous huntsmen on the front, but that didn't mean much to me. What's happening right now is all that mattered.

"Yang, aren't you going to do something?" I said I know I sounded panicked and annoyed, but come on, she's the older sister she has to care.

"Do something?" Raising her Sunglasses, looking at me like I told her something inane and stupid like the Sun is bright, or the sky is blue!

"Yes, do something about the mob scene of our male classmates hounding and flirting with Ruby?"

"I don't see a problem; Ruby is a cute girl. I'm not interfering with her opportunity after that last mission for extra credit. Ruby was all over the news; let her have some fun?" Yang said with a lofty air, very relaxed, and almost uncaring.

"Yang, which doesn't sound like you," Jaune said, surprised that Yang of all people is not up in arms about all these guys crowding her

"And you're not one to care this much, what are you jealous or something?" Yang said with a very lofty air to her seeming almost to goat him into admitting what he felt or didn't feel at that moment.

"I am not! I'm concerned! She seemed overwhelmed and distressed." Jaune said with his voice sounding rather hurried and anxious. He just wanted her Team to notice and pay attention to the fact that their leader is in distress right now.

"To me, she was laughing at the one guy's joke and seemed to be blushing from the flirtation," Blake said as she read her book, not even looking up at Ruby.

"Yeah, Arc, she is even playing with hair," Yang said with a somewhat lack of care as she seems to inspect one of the articles in her magazine.

"And fluttering her eyelashes," Weiss said with her usual snarky eye roll flipping her book to the next page.

"Seems to me, she likes the attention, and you are jealous and wish it was you in those guys' place," Yang said with a slight tone to her like she was mocking my concern.

"Fine, you don't want to help? I'll save her myself!" I said, frustrated that nobody on her Team seems to care about her.

Walking over my annoyance at its peak, I had enough nonsense and accusation my team, for the most part, were watching and muttering their confusion. Her Team didn't care; her sister wasn't actively stopping it; I had to act.

I pushed through the crowd surrounding Ruby. It almost felt like I was at a concert, and everyone was waiting for the singer to start. And with every guy I pushed, it seems like Two dozen put themselves in front. Half the guys crowding her were built like brick houses, most of them meatheads for the most part. Some of them were wiry and slim, but it didn't matter. All that matter was getting Ruby out of the pandemonium and chaos for her sanity.

"Alright, disperse! Book it! Move! Leave! If you don't, I'll beat your asses myself. Can't you tell the lady is uninterested?" I said with a confidence that I have never felt before, and I'm almost feeling righteous anger. I could see that they were making her feel so tiny and small. Considering how much of a powerhouse Ruby is, it is infuriating to see her like this.

"Arc who died and made you the King of Vale! If this beautiful flower were uninterested, she would have said so." There was leering from the one who said it. I didn't know his name, but it was purple haired hair styled up in a bit of a faux hawk if that's the right term for it? Big muscle head with biceps more massive than my own head.

All the lunkheads are agreeing with him in principle. Some of the less toned guys left quickly, not wanting to fight for a girl. Most of them wouldn't pick a fight with me knowing I was wily when I wanted to be. The meatheads were harder to convince; they thought they were in the right, and they were too stubborn to notice how she felt.

Ruby looked like a spooked rabbit who latched on to me like I was a lifeboat in the middle ocean.

"Get me out of here, Jaune!" Ruby whispered to me hurriedly, but it was audible enough that other guys heard that were close enough; some of them seemed to realize their error. They appeared to be backing off slightly, but the ringleader still had a cocky smile on his face. You could tell he didn't hear Ruby; he was daring me to draw my weapon, but I kept it away, knowing it wasn't worth it, not right now.

"As you can see, Ruby and I have better places to be and studying to do! Like everyone here has since midterms are next week." That got their attention, and they took off like I told them was Ursas with bounty and for extra credit was posted behind them. Morons, every one of them, these idiots should have started studying weeks ago.

"You ok?"

"I am now." Ruby looked up at him, the biggest relieved smile on her face.

"How much you want to bet vomit boy just realized his crush?" Yang said in a sing-songy way.

"That's a suckers' bet!" Weiss said without looking up from her book.

"Well, look at miss prim and proper using that kind of language!" Yang said with a chuckle in her voice and exaggerated posh accent, which made Weiss slightly pink.

"The way he came to you to fight for your sister? His crush is clear from the fifth day of classes. Don't know what he was thinking about putting the moves on Weiss." Blake said, flipping to the next page of her book.

"Hey!" Weiss said, affronted, but neither Yang nor Blake thought it made any sense for her to be offended.

"You're a pretty girl, but you have nothing in common and don't talk to each other." Yang pointed out, raising an eyebrow.

"I'm going to assume my intimidation. And friendship is why he was interested," Weiss said with an almost exaggerated sniff.

"And I am the savior of Mistral," Blake said with an eye roll and lay flat on the blanket as she made her quip.

"Oh, what are you going to do about miss Nikos, Yang? She's not going to like this?" Weiss said as she flipped the page to her book.

"Well, you snooze, you lose not like she claimed dibs or made a move. That's her fault. Even then, can you see Jaune and her together?"

"If you think snow princess and the string bean have nothing in common? I've never seen Pyrrha relax or do something outside training and working out?" Yang said with this air of wisdom, people could hear from time to time.

"Even Ruby can sit down and play a video game, and she's a weapons nut. She has outside interests and something more to her." Blake said, adding on to what Yang meant. Seeing the problems clear from the outside in.

"Pyrrha just doesn't seem to be able to be normal or try to relate to anyone. I doubt Jaune sees her as anything as his partner either. So, in the end, those two belong together. If she decides to fight over him? Well? I could knock her lights out." Yang said with a broad but fierce smile on her face. Flipping to photo spread in her magazine.

"Yang!" Both Weiss and Blake yelled, kind of shocked at how cavalier and ready she seemed to take on the invincible girl. Like she was asking about going to dinner, not taking on in a fight a girl who has never been beaten in an official fight.

"What? Champion or not, she hurts Ruby; all bets are off." Yang said, flashing her eyes, the threat was genuine.

Probably won't come down to that. As Blake watched those walk away, Ruby was clinging to Jaune, a relieved expression and slight blush on Ruby's face and all her thoughts saying one thing. My Hero.

Final note: I let the music help me type this out. The song I used was Save Me by Jem. Yeah, I'm old, what of it? That's more of a mental save. Remember to show your support, Lancaster week. It's important and something the fandom needs right about now.