"I believe I said the combat class rules still apply, Mister Fox," reminded Glynda as she irritatedly tapped her arm with her riding crop.
"Eheheh, well a shiner never killed anyone, right?" Naruto laughed nervously as his taller teammate glared at him, one eye already starting to purple.
"Detention, Mister Fox."
"Rats."
"Now, if the two of you would clear the field. Anyone else interested in a round of ungraded sparring?"
As the two tromped their way back into the stands and one exuberant girl challenged Pyrrha Nikos, Cardin turned his head a fraction of an inch in the direction of his... teammate. "When did you switch?"
"With the clone?" Naruto asked, "The first time you got close. Just after I slipped between your legs it came around under your arm so it would look like I just looped back around. I kept taunting you on purpose, makes you lose focus, ya know?"
Cardin just grunted in response.
"You ever think of using a shield?" Naruto asked. "You're not exactly agile so it might be good to lean on standing your ground instead."
"Your pea-shooter is kind of useless," Cardin retorted.
Naruto shrugged. "A little, on its own. It's not meant for stopping power. It's a distraction on its own. But multiplied by twenty of me?"
"Yeah, but twenty of you with stopping power would be way better."
"Heh. Yeah, that'd be pretty good."
"All good?" Russell asked as the pair made it back to their team.
The best they were going to get from Cardin was a vaguely affirmative grunt. Naruto shrugged. "I'll take what I can get."
"Hey Naruto! Your fight was cool!" said Ruby, enthusiastically but quickly. On looking at her, Naruto saw she was already watching the next bout. "Also your gun sucks. Wow! She can use her hammer as propulsion that's so awesome!"
"Thanks? I think?" Naruto said, confused.
-(-)-
And so, time passed. Weeks of it, in fact. Cardin's less tolerable tendencies seemed to fade away from the day of their first combat class onward. Well, they disappeared when dealing with the team. Outside their team he was almost as much of a douchebag as ever. As such anyone he gave crap to was informed by the rest of NCTR to just give as good as they got and they wouldn't intervene. If Cardin needed to learn not to be an asshole, why not? It could be a fun group activity. As such, Cardin's targets started to favour people that wouldn't fight back such as Jaune Arc. He wouldn't fight back and his team for some reason stayed out of it. Topaz wanted to intervene on his behalf but Naruto pointed out they didn't want to restart the intra-team feud again. If Arc wouldn't stand up for himself and his team wouldn't have his back, that was their own fault. That was the point of having a team, after all.
Classes were had. Lessons were learned with varying levels of difficulty. Team NCTR had wildly varying levels of ability when it came to schoolwork. Russell was capable in standard curriculum classes such as history and economics while Topaz flourished in them. Naruto and Cardin on the other hand, well Cardin was lazy and uninterested in such things and Naruto had only had a single year of standard schooling so was far behind. A class Naruto did have great aptitude for however, was the survival course taught by Professor Peach. Having lived in semi-wilderness for parts of his life, he had already learned a lot of the classroom material just by his own experience.
Then of course there was combat class. They weren't so much graded in that class as given positions on a leaderboard. It wasn't a class one could fail, instead the students were motivated by the spirit of competition and a desire not to get beat up every few days. Pyrrha Nikos took the top spot from the first week and never slipped. The legend of the Invincible Girl continued. In comparison, her fearless team leader sank like a stone to the bottom and never rose an inch. It became a running joke that getting paired up against Jaune Arc was getting a free win.
Team NCTR had no such wild differences in ability. Topaz and Cardin sat relatively low on the leaderboard due to their lumbering movement speed. Very often they suffered defeat by a thousand cuts. Topaz wasn't made for duels so saw this coming. Cardin was becoming more aware of his lacking combat style with every match. He was very much feeling a change in equipment was in order. Russell sat comfortably in the middle of the pack, capable but not remarkable. And Naruto... did better than he expected. Top half of the table resting in the middle of the members of Team RWBY, a team he had only faced a single member of. The fight against Blake Belladonna was sadly a foregone conclusion. Her semblance was effectively a less versatile version of his so he was prepared for every trick she had with it and then some. She was a better fighter but the disparity between the strength of their semblances and their aura reserves was too much to overcome.
Oh! And... There was one other event of note...
"FOX BOY!" a familiar voice bellowed as Teams NCTR, RWBY and JNPR entered the Beacon fitness centre in workout clothes.
"Oh no," Naruto moaned as a few details of the past year fitted into place.
Blaine moved to Vale.
Blaine left for work every day but didn't say where.
Blaine was a retired huntsman.
Blaine was obsessed with fitness.
Blaine had contact with Ozpin.
Blaine was the fitness coach for Beacon.
"You have arrived!" Blaine continued to speak in his lack of an indoor voice as he swept Naruto up in an entirely unasked for hug. "Here to tread the Iron Path with me once more! Come! Introduce me to your friends that I might demonstrate to them the greatness and majesty of Brodin's ways!"
"Uh, Naruto?" Ruby asked hesitantly, "You know this guy?"
"He..." Naruto gasped out, still in the grip of a human more bear-like than Topaz could ever be, "Was my guardian... When I was... At Signal! Blaine put me down, dammit!"
"Ah, my apologies, Fox Boy!" Blaine apologised as he put Naruto down, the faunus stretching upon his newfound freedom, joints cracking back into proper place. "I didn't realise you would grow soft in your time away from Brodin's mighty embrace! Not to worry! We shall rectify this travesty! To the squat rack!"
As the group of twelve teens watched the... eccentric, musclebound man strut his way further into the fitness centre, Jaune Arc asked "Uh, didn't he want to do introductions before?"
"He gets easily distracted by thoughts of working out," Naruto explained. "You'd think it'd be a good thing that you could get him off your back so easily but–" The beast of a human noticed he wasn't being followed by a fox faunus and doubled back so fast Ruby thought they shared a semblance, picking Naruto up by the head and carrying him away. "He'll just drag you into it anyway."
"He seems pretty intense," Jaune noted as he watched an accepting Naruto start doing squats as though this exact scenario had played out a hundred times. In truth, it had. And Naruto had learned to stop fighting the inevitable.
"He's amazing!" Nora squealed, voluntarily following the two and joining in.
"Praise Brodin!"
"Praise Brodin!" Nora shouted, not really knowing who that was but also not caring.
Yang shrugged. "Well, I came here to work out so whatever. Hey, Blake, you mind spotting for me?" Before heading to one of the benches.
"Man, this school is weird sometimes, right Cardin?" asked Russell only to see the redhead had disappeared. "Cardin?"
"Praise Brodin!"
"Praise Brodin!" a chorus of voices answered the fitness coach from various stations, Cardin having gone to work on his shoulders, Pyrrha doing crunches and Topaz doing pull ups.
Those left behind, those of the group one might consider on the daintier side (and yes that included Russell and Ren) were left to wonder if this was how cults were formed.
-(-)-
Team NCTR were relaxing in their dorm room, combat class having been earlier in the day so they took the time to recuperate. Not that all of them needed it. Cardin had gotten his "free win" so he was right as rain. It was a warm night. They had left the windows open to get a comforting breeze through. There was the drone of voices coming from above them but they didn't pay it much mind. At least at first.
"Wait," Cardin suddenly said. "Is that Arc and Nikos?"
The rest of the team stopped what they were doing and listened. Sure enough, the nasal voice of Jaune Arc was clearly audible.
"I'm gonna listen in," Cardin announced quietly as he crept towards the window to hear better.
"Cardin–" Topaz sighed exasperatedly.
"Shut up, alright?! I'm not gonna bother 'em, just listen in!"
And as he listened, he knew he was right to. "You're wrong," he heard Arc say. "I-I don't belong here."
"That's a terrible thing to say, of course you do!"
"No, I don't," the boy said loud enough that the team below him didn't even have to actively listen like Cardin to hear it. "I wasn't really accepted into Beacon."
"No way," Cardin breathed.
"What?" Russell asked.
"Shh!"
Russell crossed the room to listen at the window as well, and then the other two fell under the spell too.
"Wh-what do you mean?"
"I mean I didn't go to combat school, I didn't pass any tests, I didn't earn my spot at this academy! I lied! I got my hands on some fake transcripts, and I lied."
"What? But why?"
"Because this is what I've always wanted to be! My father, my grandfather and his father before him were all warriors! They were all heroes! I wanted to be one too. I was just never good enough."
"Then let me help you!"
"I don't want help! I don't want to be the damsel in distress, I wanna be the hero!"
"Jaune, I–"
"I'm tired, of being the lovable idiot stuck in the tree, while his friends fight for their lives, don't you understand?! If I can't do this on my own, then what good am I?!" There was a long, awkward pause. "Just... Leave me alone! … Okay?"
"... If that's what you think is best."
Cardin got a devious smile on his face and started to climb out the window. Naruto made a couple of clones and dragged him back out of it. "Hey, what gives?!"
"Topaz, get the windows," said Naruto as he slumped into his desk chair.
With a gesture, Topaz used her semblance to shut the windows and dull the sounds of her shouting, "What a piece of shit!" as she began to pace angrily.
"Woah, okay!" Russell blinked at the abruptt change. "Was not expecting that from you, Tope."
"You heard what he said! He faked his way in here! Do you have any idea how hard it was to test into Beacon after I didn't get into combat school?! I worked my butt off every day to make the cut and he just waltzes in with no knowledge, no training, no nothing, it just-! URGH!"
"You're not wrong," Naruto admitted. "Ozpin might've had my back but I still had to get in on my own merits, ya know? It's just... I mean I wouldn't be here without Ozpin so I can't really–"
"At least you work at it!" Topaz cut him off before he could finish. "You learned to fight better, got me and Russ to tutor you in history, you accepted help! He just got all that from maybe the best fighter in the entire school and he just slapped it away because he 'wants to be the hero'! Like he's a ten year old playing play pretend instead of in a school for fighting monsters!"
"Okay, okay!" Russel said in a soothing voice, "We get it but let's just take a deep breath, okay?"
"Stop talking to me like that! I'm angry, not a baby!"
Russell just waved his hands in front of him in a gesture of surrender.
"Well we know about it now," Naruto sighed as though he really wished he didn't. "What do we do about it?"
"I say we screw with him," Cardin said immediately.
"That's your answer to everything," said Russell, rolling his eyes.
"Any suggestions that aren't just Cardin doing Cardin things?" Naruto asked.
"We tell the Headmaster," Topaz said, her tone not clear on whether that was a suggestion or a demand.
"O-kay, we'll call that the gravity bomb option," Naruto said with raised eyebrows. "Anything not quite so severe?"
"We could–"
"Cardin, you're gonna screw with him no matter what we do. Let it pass."
"We could go to his team," Russell suggested. "Pyrrha obviously knows but the other two don't. Maybe they can–"
"What?" Topaz asked snidely. "Offer to help and get shoved aside like the Invincible Girl just did? What will that accomplish?"
"Tope–"
"No! He doesn't get to come to the school, take the place of someone who earned it and blow off training to bitch and moan about not being the hero! Someone like him being here is a liability to himself and his team! We've got the Forever Fall trip coming up and summer missions after that! Is his team gonna have to baby his dumb ass through all that? If he stays, he's gonna get them killed."
The room got quiet at that. None of them were under the illusion that it wasn't a possibility. JNPR were effectively a three person team, without a leader. Arguably two if one would have to babysit the person who was supposed to be their leader.
Naruto broke the silence. "I'm waiting for a counter-point." He was hoping for a counter-point.
He didn't get one.
"Telling Ozpin, raise your hands?" Topaz' shot up. Russell's raised, as did Cardin's. Naruto's reluctantly went up as well. "I'll talk to Ozpin in the morning."
-(-)-
"Mister Fox? Can I help you with something?" Professor Goodwitch asked on seeing the blond enter her office. It was a Saturday so he had eschewed the academy uniform for his combat attire. The students were encouraged to wear it often to acclimatise themselves to it.
"I was hoping to see Oz–... The headmaster."
"Can I ask what this is regarding? Is it about your team?"
"No, it's about... another team," Naruto said vaguely.
"I'm afraid the Headmaster is a busy man. If it's some inter-team difficulty you'll have to work it out between yourselves."
Naruto awkwardly scratched at his ears. "It's not... Someone has done something that the Headmaster needs to know about, ya know?"
Glynda's eyebrow raised behind her glasses but she waited for confirmation or rejection from the Headmaster who was doubtless listening in as always. Seconds later she received a message to send the faunus up. "Very well, the Headmaster will see you. Follow me."
Naruto followed the professor into the elevator and immediately felt awkward being in an enclosed space with someone and not talking. "So how's the... teaching... thing?"
She almost let slip what might theoretically be called a smile. "It seems to be going quite well. How is the 'learning thing'?" the teacher asked in turn.
"Pretty good? Still suuuuaaaam bad at history but my team are helping."
"Your showing in combat class is quite good. Looking forward to challenging the top five?" Goodwitch asked, remembering she hadn't paired him against any of the strongest fighters yet.
"No~~~t really!" he answered nervously. "I've got a long history of Yang kicking my a-hind from back at Signal. Not looking to continue the trend."
"Have you considered upgrading your equipment? We have excellent facilities for maintenance and forging available for students."
Naruto rubbed at his neck, "Yeah, I... Don't really know how to do that? Maintenance, sure but I don't know how to build stuff. People keep telling me to get a heavier option but I wouldn't know where to start."
"Have you considered asking Miss Rose?" Glynda suggested. "The two of you seem quite close and she is something of a savant when it comes to forging equipment."
"Really? Huh. Thanks. I'll see if I can owe her a favour," he said, before adding "Wow, this elevator ride is really long."
"Quite."
The elevator slowed and opened, allowing the passengers to finally escape out into Ozpin's office. Much like his teammate before him, Naruto marvelled at the clockwork décor ticking and clunking and clanking away above him before focusing on the man himself.
"Mister Fox! To what do I owe the pleasure?" Ozpin asked as he leaned forward over his desk.
Naruto sighed, took a deep breath in and out through his nose and started talking. "Okay, my team found out something about a student and we decided that it would be best for everyone involved if I came and told you about it, ya know?"
"I'm afraid I don't. To what are you referring?"
Another breath in through his nose. "Jaune Arc's transcripts are fake."
The sounds of clockwork filled the silence so well it was like they were designed for it.
"What makes you say that?" Ozpin asked eventually.
"My team heard him telling his partner about it. That he got hold of some fake transcripts and forged his way into the school."
Professor Goodwitch rejoined the conversation. "That's a very serious accusation, Mister Fox. But I assure you we will investigate thoroughly and, if true, we–"
"I assure you, Mister Fox. Jaune Arc's transcripts are quite real."
Naruto's head tilted sideways so suddenly you could hear his neck click. "I'm sorry, what?"
"His transcripts are genuine. Would you like to see them?" the headmaster asked, pulling up a file on his computer. On the holo-screen appeared a complete file on Jaune Arc, singing praises of his capabilities academically and in combat. "See that there?" Ozpin asked, pointing to the corner where a seal of approval sat. "That is my own seal. These transcripts are genuine because I wrote them."
"I'm sorry, what?" Naruto repeated, not understanding in the slightest the way the meeting was going.
"Do you recall when we spoke on your family's farm, Mister Fox? When I told you why I was so invested in recruiting you?"
"You said it was because of my semblance."
"Correct," Ozpin nodded, rising from his chair and moving around his desk to speak to Naruto eye-to-eye. "You have a powerful, versatile semblance. One that could impact humanity's fight against the Grimm in many ways. Finding you was a stroke of luck. But for some, it can be predicted when such a semblance will appear. Mister Arc is one such person."
"Jaune is like me," Naruto realised, the thought having occurred the night before but he never imagined it could be as true as it was.
"His circumstances when he joined Beacon are more dire, I admit. I'm most likely pushing things in regards to him. He is untrained. But the good he might one day do outbalances the risk of having him here."
The wheels in the fox's brain squealed in protest as they tried to process this revelation. "But he doesn't even want to train! He just wants to be the hero!"
"Well, that is a problem," Ozpin said openly. "One you have my every permission to solve however you see fit. If Mister Arc shows no improvement by the time you all take missions in the summer, I will have him removed. But until then, I hope your team and his will bring him up to our standards. Can I trust you with that?"
"Uhhh..."
"Success or failure, Mister Fox, I will bear you no ill will. Or even if you choose not to involve yourself at all. Choice is a gift, after all."
Naruto felt numb when he left Ozpin's office. Professor Goodwitch had told him she needed to speak with the headmaster privately and so wouldn't accompany him in the elevator. He was left on that long journey back to the ground floor in a metal box, entirely alone with his whirling thoughts.
Ozpin. The man was a strange existence. They hadn't interacted at all since Naruto had been set up with Blaine. He thought he had a handle on the older man but he now knew he had barely even scratched the surface.
His actions concerning Naruto himself had seemed entirely altruistic at the time. He had said they were, said he would take no for an answer if Naruto rejected the offer. But Naruto now began to wonder if he only said that to more assure Naruto's agreement. Or perhaps it was both? He would take no for an answer, but saying he would take no for an answer made a yes more likely. He had seen nothing, even with this new information, that implied Ozpin would force anyone into anything. But he was very good at convincing people of his way in things.
So it wasn't pure altruism. But honestly, that was fine with the fox faunus. Maybe a little disappointing? But more realistic. He was well familiar with such quid-pro-quo arrangements, having arranged many himself. Was the favour Naruto gave worth the favour Ozpin gave? Was his life in service worth the safety of his family?
A thousand times, yes.
Personal crisis resolved, Naruto left the elevator and Glynda's office with only thoughts on the Arc situation. It remained true, Ozpin hadn't pushed Jaune into anything he hadn't willingly agreed to. The boy didn't even know he was playing to Ozpin's tune. Did that matter? Naruto couldn't bring himself to think it did. The boy was very clear that he was only concerned with his own desires and ambitions. So really, it was Jaune's own–
… No. Naruto couldn't bring himself to think like that. As many problems as he had with how Jaune acted and thought, he couldn't dump the consequences entirely on the boy. Naruto had been like him at one point, though he wasn't basically a grown man at the time. Brash, self-centred, thinking of himself first and others maybe eventually. Harsh experience knocked that kind of thinking out of him quickly enough, fair to say life didn't give Jaune quite the same kick in the pants.
So... Maybe someone needed to.
It wasn't a terrible thought. Someone needed to get Jaune's head out of his ass. Ozpin pretty much implied Naruto could do what he wanted to rectify the situation. He could get Pyrrha to fix it but Naruto had never been one to get other people to do the work for him when he could solve a problem himself. Though... There was no way he could pull it off without her. Getting Jaune's head out of his ass was one thing. Getting him fighting fit was entirely another and Naruto had no idea how to use a shield. Or a sword. Definitely not both.
And so Naruto began to plot. He had the seed of an idea, and if it was properly cared for it could bear fruit to solve multiple problems at once.
-(-)-
Later that day, Jaune Arc was innocently returning to his dorm, preparing himself to awkwardly avoid his teammates as much as he could in a single dorm room. When suddenly! He was accosted! Assaulted! Manhandled by dastardly ne'er do wells! "Eeek!" he yelled in an assuredly manly tone. "Not the face!" he cried, defiant to the last! He struggled, refusing to give in to these ruffians'... Okay, you know what? NCTR were kidnapping Jaune and he was being a drama queen about it. You know the score.
Unfortunately, "What's going on?! I heard a girl scream!" Pyrrha yelled as she flung open the JNPR door. "Jaune!" she gasped as she saw him being carried away.
Shit, Naruto thought as he heard the Invincible Girl's voice. Well it wasn't quite to plan but they could work with it. Quickly making a clone, it moved to the rear of his team to cover their escape, Jaune hanging limp over Cardin's shoulder. "Muahahaha!" the clone cackled! "We have abducted your fearless leader–"
"Why-hy-hy-hy-hyyyyyy!" Jaune cried off in the distance.
"... Well we captured your leader, at least," the clone corrected. "And we shall do dastardly things to him unless you follow and– Yipe!" the clone squealed as a spear that hadn't been there before was suddenly in front of his face. Where was she keeping that?
"What are you doing, Naruto?" Pyrrha asked firmly. "I'd expect this from Cardin but not the rest of your team!"
"Well, there's a funny thing about that," Naruto said, stalling to see if the other pair from JNPR were around. They didn't appear to back Pyrrha up so he was safe to assume they weren't. "Shouldn't he be getting himself out of this?" the clone asked with a sardonic smirk. "After all, he doesn't want to be the damsel in distress for you to save, he wants to be the hero, ya know?"
It took a moment, but Pyrrha connected the dots quickly enough. "No."
"Yeah," the clone nodded, the smirk turning more frustrated than anything, "Turns out that roof you guys yell at each other on is right over our dorm. Funny, right? Anyway, since you decided to be a soft touch about it, we've decided to take matters into our own hands and give your leader a bit of a reality check. You're welcome to come along. No doubt it'd be good to have someone who knows how to use a sword and shield around but we're also going to be pretty safely squared away as people Jaune doesn't like by the end of this. So... Do what you think is best, ya know? For you, him, your team, whatever. We'll be in sparring room two if you want to get involved."
The clone dispelled itself, secure that by then she wouldn't be able to catch the rest of the team before things got underway.
And so Pyrrha was left in the dormitory hallway, trapped in a choice between damaging her team or her relationship with Jaune.
Meanwhile, the entirety of Team NCTR made good progress to the sparring room, Cardin slamming the more lanky teen down ass first on the sparring ground.
"Oww!" Jaune squealed despite having activated his aura, preventing any injury. "Okay, Cardin, I know you have your fun at my expense but don't you think this is maybe crossing a line?!"
"Wasn't my idea."
"Huh?" Jaune asked as he looked around him and for the first time took in he wasn't dealing with just Cardin but all of Team NCTR. "Okay, what gives? Cardin's one thing but I know I didn't do anything to piss all of you guys off."
"Riiiiight," Topaz, the bear faunus said sarcastically. "We should all get along! After all, we all have the same common ground, working hard to get into Beacon, right?"
"Tope. Enough," Russell said, the faunus letting out a grunt and storming off towards the wall below the stands, arms folded and glaring.
Naruto, trailing behind the others just in case Pyrrha followed aggressively, approached the blond. "Here's the thing, Jaune. We heard your... Well, I'll call it like it is, ya know? We heard you yelling at Pyrrha last night."
"... How much did you hear?"
Naruto felt a spike of irritation that the other boy was still trying to pretend he wasn't in as deep shit as he was, but he pushed it down. "How much do you think we heard, Jaune? Do you think we heard the part where you admitted you got into this academy hilariously unprepared for what you'd be doing? Or the part where you admitted to multiple crimes? Or the part–"
A slam reverberated around the near empty arena, Pyrrha Nikos standing in an open doorway, head down, bangs obscuring her face. Quietly, she walked down the aisle of the stands before sitting respectfully, hands clasped in her lap.
"Or the part where you spat on a genuine offer of help because you wanted to be the super special boy that saves the day without having to put in any of the work like the rest of us?"
"Pyrrha... Why?" Jaune asked as he saw her, ignoring the fox faunus' words since she entered the room.
"Why?!" Naruto asked, grabbing Jaune's face and forcing his focus. "You spat in her face last night and you have to ask why she might be letting this happen?! Let me tell you something, Jauney-boy," Naruto sneered as he borrowed Cardin's nickname for the blond, "Just so there's no confusion, ya know. "She didn't know this was happening until she heard you screaming and came to save you. Even though you slapped her hand away before, she still just wants to help you because she gives a damn. You wanna be a hero so damn much? Learn to put yourself aside like she does, ya know?!" he yelled, shoving the boy back.
"Now," Naruto continued, "here's what we're gonna do today. We booked this room all day. And we're going to spend the entire day drilling into your stupid, conceited brain how to hold your own in a fight. This is not gonna be a fun day for you, but if you really don't wanna be a damsel, you'll thank us for it in the end."
"You ready?"
-(-)-
A/N: So season 6 isn't half bad. And that means writing this story isn't like pulling teeth. I'm actually looking forward to writing a scene in that season so that's cool.
This is practically speaking, a combination of Jaunedice and Forever Fall all rolled up into a single chapter. CRDL took advantage of Jaune's situation in canon. NCTR were not interested in doing that (except Cardin), but they also were wayyy less willing to put up with his shit. CRDL were feckless layabouts. NCTR (again, with the possible exception of Cardin though he's getting better) they actually give a damn about the job they're training for and worked hard to get there. So hearing someone say they not only didn't put in the work but from their perspective still actively refuse to put in the work... Well, tempers flared, clearly.
For the Ozpin scene Glynda, as in canon, did not know Jaune's transcripts weren't legitimate. She stayed behind in that scene to give Oz an earful. As for Ozpin's plans for Jaune, well that's my headcanon now. Jaune's family traditionally have amplification semblances of some stripe and they're super useful. He expects Jaune might have one also, so he gives the dumbass a free pass where he'll either die pointlessly, flunk out or be super useful.
Kind of decision he's made thousands of times. Hell, he made a similar one with Ruby.
I'm in the home stretch of NaNoWriMo at 40,000 words. Wish me luck as I try to bring it home.
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EDIT: Last minute, forgot to add a disclaimer. Jaune and Pyrrha's conversation was taken word for word from the show. This is both disclaimer that I don't own it and reminder that yes, Jaune really was that much of a whiny jerk in that scene.