September 1996...

2 years ago...

Jaune slammed into the fence hard, he was pretty sure that he felt the wood crack from his body hitting it. But that was okay, if the first 13 years of his life taught him anything, is that if people don't want to listen to your words, make them listen to your fists.

And hell this wasn't even his fault for once, he was minding his own business when he heard some girl scream and of course he had to take action. He glanced over at where the glasses wearing girl who was a couple inches shorter than him and looked like she was still in grade school was sitting in shock in the mud puddle that some asshole threw her into.

Then there was the asshole, it looked like some jerk freshmen from the nearby high school was teasing the poor girl. At least he hoped it was only teasing, or this guy was going to be be sucking his meals through a straw for the rest of his life.

That got Jaune's blood pumping. He stood up, wiped the blood off his busted lip and smiled, he was going to show this jerk there's more than one way to talk with your hands.

The older Bully ran in and tried to slug Jaune in the face. He did see that Jaune had picked up some mud as he got up before he flung it at the older kids face catching him right in the eyes, as the kid shouted out from being blinded Jaune decided to use the next dirty trick he learned on the playgrounds of his old school.

Jaune kicked the bully directly in the nuts, he didn't even feel bad about it! Jaune then proceeded to do what he did best and pummel the old kid till he cried and ran away!

Jaune silently shouted in victory, he imagined if he could make a noise that would of sounded pretty damn epic. before he went over to the girl to see if she was okay.

The glasses wearing girl was crying pretty hard, her clothes were covered in mud and she had a slight red mark on her forehead, Jaune knelled next to her and offered her a hand to help her up.

The girl blubbered out a "Th-Thank you S-Sir" Before hugging Jaune.

Jaune was caught off guard and could only pat the sobbing girl on the back the whole time thinking "Oh my god what the hell am I supposed to do, I've never been hugged by a girl like this!"

After the girl managed to calm herself down she looked at Jaune and he helped her up "Uh.. Thanks..." She rubbed her neck

Jaune could only shoot her a quick thumbs up and a wide grin. Jaune then took out his note pad and wrote out the best he could 'Hey you need me to walk you home?'

The girl looked at the note and then back at him "Uh, did that guy punch your voice box out or something?" Which caused Jaune to chuckle a bit

Jaune wrote out a note 'Nah, I can't talk, so I talk to most people like this' Jaune thought it over 'Or I just punch them a bunch like you saw just now.'

The girl just giggled a bit "Oh I see, in that case, if it's not out of your way, can you walk me home, that jerk is always bullying me after school!"

Jaune Flexed one of his not really impressive arms and smiled.

"If that's a yes, then I live this way" The girl said as she lead her new found bodyguard.


Later on after dropping off the girl at her place, he found himself sneaking into his house, he got around the first corner past the kitchen when he hear his mother call out.

"Welcome home Jaune." His mother shouted from the kitchen Followed by a pause "I see your not coming to see me, so that tells me your sneaking into the house So get your butt over here now!"

Jaune mentally cursed his luck and lurked out to where his mother was sitting with her arms folded across her chest, the second she saw him she got that 'I'm not mad, I'm disappointed look' on her face. She sized her her son pretty quickly, his hair was ruffled, his clothes were filthy, Jaune had a light bruise on his cheek and a barely clotted busted lip, and he had that look on his face he only gets when he Wins his fights, which made her worried what the other kid looked like.

"Jaune, did you seriously manage to get into a fight? You understand we've only been here for, what four weeks?" Mina said trying to look stern at the young thirteen year old in front of her. "You already have more fights under your belt than you have years on this earth!"

Jaune just signed out [Look I know, you told me not to get in any more fights, but I had a really good reason this time!]

"Okay, I'll bite, what great reason did you have to get into yet another fight?" Mina said with a rather stern tone to her voice. "Also you better not have caught a suspension for this, I can't afford to take the time off work for this!"

[You won't, this happened off campus!] Jaune hastily signed to his mother.

"Not making me feel better about this Jaune" Mina said as she narrowed her eyes into a death glare/

Jaune thought "Right, yeah, okay." as he started to sign [Well, there was this high school boy roughing up some grade school girl... and I couldn't ignore that!]

Mina looked at her son and let her arms drop to her hips "A high school boy was roughing up a little kid, man that's messed up, did you get the boys name?"

Jaune rubbed his neck and shrugged.

"So that's a no, and the girl, did you get the girls name?"

Jaune froze up thinking"Aw crap I forgot to ask the girl her name!" before signing out nervously [I kinda forgot to ask mom...]

Mina sighed out in agitation and muttered something about a lack of danger of becoming a grandmother before saying to Jaune "Okay get your ass in the shower. And then your cleaning that filthy room of yours as punishment!"

Jaune sighed out before signing [Yes mom] and sulked off to get a shower.


The following day, Jaune was sitting in his history class learning about the American Civil War, a subject that Jaune was not overwhelmingly invested in, possibly because his history teacher was speaking in the most monotone voice imaginable. Jaune only really started to pay attention when he was called upon by the teacher.

"Now if you were all paying attention, Jaune! When was the Battle of Antietam and where did it take place!"

Jaune held up a finger so he could let the teacher know he needed a second to write out his answer, he actually somehow knew this and wrote on his note. '9/17/1862 in Sharpsburg Maryland' and without looking tapped the person sitting next to him so he could get them to read the note out.

Jaune heard a slight gasp from the person who might have been asleep at the time. when he turned he saw a sort of familiar looking girl staring at him in surprise wearing some, in his mind, cute glasses. and rocking a light red mark on her forehead."

"Glasses... where have I... wait a second The Grade school girl from yesterday!" Jaune thought as his eyes shot wide.

"Wait a second, the high school boy from yesterday" the girl say loudly as they both pointed at each other in confusion.

As they stared awkwardly at each other the teacher chimed in "Yes lovely, anyways Jaune do you know or not?"

Jaune snapped back to reality and pointed at the note and handed to her, she quickly read off the answer on it.

"Very good, lets keep going" The teacher said as he turned around to continue.

The girl turned to speak to him instantly whispering "He said your name was Jaune?"

Jaune hunkered down low and gave her a thumbs up and pointed at her.

"You want to know my name?" The girl whispered pushing her glasses up her face.

Jaune nodded yes.

"Oh wow yeah, my name is Pyrrha, it's nice to meet you." Pyrrha said as she looked up front in case the teacher was looking at them.

He wasn't. But it still made Jaune paranoid. As Jaune looked at her, now that she wasn't covered in mud and crying her eyes out Jaune couldn't help but notice that yeah she did look to be close to his age, and she was actually cute as hell.

This made Jaune tense up when she spoke again. "Um, I hope i'm not asking for to much, but can you walk me home again today after school? I'm still worried about that bully."

Jaune tried and failed to fight back a blush while thinking "holy crap, is this how people get girlfriends? I never had a girlfriend before! I didn't even know I wanted to have a girlfriend before!"

Pyrrha tapped Jaune on the shoulder to get his attention. "Um if it's not okay then..."

Jaune waved his hands in front of him for a second and then pulled out his notepad and started writing a note. 'No it's fine, I'll be happy to walk you home today! Or any other day!' Before he handed the note to her.

She read the note and giggled in a way that made Jaune's heart flutter slightly "Meet me at the front entrance after school then" she whispered to him with a slight blush of her own.

Jaune smiled and gave her a thumbs up as they both decided it would be for the best if they actually paid a bit of attention to class today.


Later on as Jaune made good on his promise to walk his new friend home, She looked to be much more at ease than when he saw her yesterday. Not a suprise all things considered, Jaune also noticed she was quit, maybe nerves, maybe she just didn't want to come out of her shell.

Jaune wrote out and handed her a note asking 'Hey you okay?'

Pyrrha smiled and said "Oh yeah, I'm fine, I'm just not used to walking home with a boy like this."

Jaune nervously looked off the side thinking before passing her a note saying. 'It's okay, I mean were just two kids hanging out right?'

Pyrrha giggled while reading the note "Yeah I guess your right, you seem like a really nice guy Jaune."

Jaune just smiled back at her as they reached her house and they both heard a voice call out to them. Jaune looked up and saw a woman, who looked older, maybe close to his mom's age waving at them.

"Well, well Pyr, looks like you found that boy you were talking my ear off about yesterday." The woman said to her

Pyrrha's face just turned beat red and said "Uh yeah, this is Jaune, he's mute so be patient with him as he writes notes okay?"

"Oh that's fine, I won't keep him to long, My name is Samantha, I'm Pyrrha's mother and I was hoping we'd see you again." The woman said as she leaned over to eye level with Jaune.

Jaune just rubbed the back of his neck and blushed a bit in embarrassment before he wrote out a quick note 'Sorry if I got Pyrrha in trouble!' and giving it to Samantha.

"Oh no no no! Neither of you are in trouble kid." The woman said to Jaune. "I did want to send you home with something to give to your parents though as a thank you for helping my little girl out!" Samantha said as she rubbed the top of her daughters head.

Jaune thought for a second and wrote out a note 'Actually it's just me and my mom ma'am.'

Samantha smiled at the young Arc boy "And she did a fine job raising you, wait here okay?"

Jaune nodded as she went inside for a moment. Jaune smiled at Pyrrha a couple times.

"Actually I did get in a little trouble, but only because my dad was trying to get me to toughen up a bit and beat up my own bullies."

Jaune handed a note to her saying 'Sounds like your dad's kinda hard on you.'

"Nah, he just wants his little girl to be tough you know?" Pyrrha said quietly, but she didn't have any kind of expression on her face as she said it.

Jaune looked puzzled at this for a second but before he could dwell on it he saw her mother come out with a green Tupperware container. "So Pyrrha helped me out with this just in case we saw you, and I slipped our number in their so your mom can call us okay?"

Jaune's eyes shot wide as being handed a big Tupperware of Cookies and without thinking signed out a thanks!.

"I'll assume you just said thank you, and save a few of those for your mom okay?" Samantha said "I'm going to bring Pyrrha in now, so we'll see you later okay Jaune?"

Jaune nodded and smiled as he carefully tucked the Tupperware carefully under one arm and shot the pair of them a two fingered salute and jogged off to get home.

"Nice kid that one." Samantha said to Pyrrha, "Come on, lets get inside and help me make some dinner before your dad gets home."

Pyrrha smiled at mom and said "Okay! lets go!" and the pair went into their home.


Hey so guess who forgot to put author notes at the end of the chapter, again. This guy right here.

So yeah, this is a flashback chapter to a couple years before the "Current day" of the story, I wanted to basically tell two stories, that will eventually lead to how Jaune got to the point where is is at the start of the story, from a hot headed 13 year old, to the caring and emotional 15 year old that we see at the start of the story. So enjoy, and see you next chapter.