The docs were cold, walking into the old abandon warehouse Jaune was greeted by a large group of men in white masks that looked at his direction.
"Um hi?" after a few moments of silence Roman finally entered the main room. "Lads and gents, well mostly gents. I would like to introduce you guys to our newest member! Jaune, come up here and join me for a drink." Roman's booming voice echoed into the room, the workers started getting back to whatever it was that they were doing, ignoring Jaune.
Jaune slowly walked up the steps, entering the office he smelt cream. Roman was sitting at his big desk, his hands behind his head and his feet perched onto his desk.
"Jauney boy, glad you made it here, by the way there are no drinks. Listen on my desk is your key to school. It has everything, profile, classes, schoolmates, all the likes." A file laid on the desk, a small picture of Jaune paper clipped to the front. Picking up the folder Jaune was about to leave the office until, "Oh and before you go I got some news. This is Neo." Roman gestured towards a small girl with a look of pink, brown, and white. "She will be your… Bodyguard, all you have to do is do what she says, listen to her orders, and don't get on her bad side." Roman leaned over his desk towards Jaune, making sure Neo wasn't listening, "She can be a troublesome person so please, stay on her good side."
Jaune looked over Roman's shoulder and made eye contact with the girl named, "Neo". She seemed nice enough, honestly a solid 9/10 in his eyes and was a bit excited to work with a person like her. Once a few seconds of eye contact was made Neo licked her lips flicking switch in Jaune's head and waking him out of his trance.
"Jauney boy did you hear me?" Looking at Roman, Jaune gave a confused look. "You said something?"
Roman sighed, "Jaune, go to that room and you'll find someone who will unlock your aura. He'll also explain said aura." Before Jaune could say a word Roman pushed him closer to the room.
After around 10 minutes Jaune left the room. It was dark and honestly he couldn't remember much of it, all he knew was that he had his aura unlocked, apparently aura is like… Like a forcefield. Kinda like jedi shit with the force, that was really all Jaune could remember, everything else was a blur. A headache started to grow as well.
"Congrats Jauney boy, you are now ready to be a hunter." Roman then grabbed a key and jingled the chain in front of Jaune's face, "Here take this, since you don't have a place to sleep and school doesn't start for another week you can crash at one of my safe houses.
Jaune looked over Roman's shoulder once again to see Neo wink at him. He was never a ladies man, most of his interactions with the opposite sex were mostly from his times with his sisters, this feeling of seeing a girl like her interact with him gave him butterflies. Seeing Roman give him an odd stare Jaune grabbed the key and almost walked out the door when Roman said one last thing, "Aren't you going to ask where the place is located?"
After getting the location, Jaune was off, he felt somewhat happy. He made sure to make a quick stop at his hotel to check out and to collect his things, and like that he made a straight walk towards the safe house.
When Jaune got to about the halfway mark he noticed a girl was following him. Stopping he turned around and walked towards the girl, it was Neo.
"What do you want?" Neo responded with silence, "Are you just gonna follow me?" she nodded. Jaune sighed, brushed his hair back with one hand and started his walk again.
Once he reached the safehouse Jaune was pooped, it was only the middle of the day but Jaune was already out of it. Entering the apartment he was surprised by how well furnished the place was, it was like a 5 star hotel. There was a living room, kitchen, a full bathroom, but only one bedroom. He knew Neo was right behind him and he wasn't fully prepared to share a bed with a girl.
"Look um… Neo was it? Yeah, how about you sleep in the bed and I'll take the couch?" Neo shrugged and went inside the bedroom and locked the door.
Jaune laid down on the couch, his stuff next to him. He checked his scroll for any family updates and saw some pictures of his sisters doing who knows what in who knows where. Rubbing his eyes he fell asleep within a couple of minutes.
Waking up Jaune felt even more tired, what woke him up however was the smell of cream. Getting up he could feel his back groan, the couch was comfy but it wasn't worth sleeping on. Looking around he saw Neo rummaging through the fridge, "If you want I can cook something." She looked at Jaune and simply rolled her eyes while getting back to finding something to eat.
"I'm serious, I might not be the best cook in the world but I did help raise seven sisters, and six of the seven sisters liked my cooking." Neo sighed and sat down on a chair next to the counter. "I'm sure you won't regret this." Jaune tried to boast his skill but really he had no idea what to do. Most of the things he cooked with weren't in the kitchen and the ingredients that were in the fridge were foods that he had never cooked with.
A minute had passed and Jaune finally found something he knew how to cook, steak. "How about steak?" Neo shrugged once again not even looking at Jaune's direction. "Ok, steak it is." and like that he was off cooking.
First he took the two slabs of steak and prepped them, seasoning them with salt and pepper, then he added some oil to a stainless steel pan, and off goes the steaks. After a few minutes the steaks were cooked and all that was left was to let them rest for 10 minutes.
Soon the steaks were done, and boy were they delicious. The seasoning was off a tiny bit but they were still tasty while tender.
"How is it?" Neo shrugged, she might've not said anything but she did show she liked it at the very least.
The meal was done and Neo was back into her room while Jaune relaxed on the couch. The TV didn't have anything he wanted to see and he didn't feel like going back to sleep.
The time was 8:47 PM and Jaune was bored out of his mind. It had been two hours since Neo was outside of her room and he still couldn't find anything to watch. Taking a break he looked at his files that laid on the coffee table in front of him.
Jaune Arc.
Age. 17
Gender. Male
Race. White
Height. 6"1
Eye Color. Blue
Hair. Blonde, Short
While reading the first few lines he felt uneasy, it's not every day that you read a file about you, after just reading the first sentence of the description of his personality Jaune was officially creeped out. "Screw this." he got up and headed towards Neo's door.
Knock Knock Knock
Jaune could hear someone walk closer towards the door, within a few seconds the door flung open. Looking down his eyes met with Neo. "Hey Neo, I was just curious. What did Roman want with me? And also… Well if possible… Could ya tell me how you got all this info about me?" Another sigh came out of her, at this point he was used to it. Looking back up to him she grabbed his scroll and slammed the door. Now this was his turn to sigh, walking back to his couch the door opened. Turning around Jaune saw Neo with his scroll, she tossed it towards him and closed his door.
A few moments later his scroll buzzed, it was a text from an unknown number.
Listen idiot, all you need to do is follow my orders. I say, you do. Done. And forget about how we got that info, if you ask again I'll punch your face in.
Jaune winced at the thought of getting beaten up by a small girl but he felt like she could do it. Tossing his scroll onto the coffee table Jaune decided that he was out of it and tried to go back to sleep. It took him longer than last time but eventually he did finally fall asleep.
A/N: I feel I kinda rushed this chapter but I am somewhat satisfied. I am going through a cold right now so uploads might be slower. Hope yall enjoyed it.
