Yang-Dere Chapter 4- Rock em'-Sock em'

So Ruby likes Jaune. It's not the end of the world, right? Yang knew Ruby would figure out about her feelings for Jaune eventually. So, the only course of action to take would be to tell her sister the truth. She would just have to tell her that her feelings for Jaune are stronger, and that she should just kindly and quietly back off. With their sisterly bond, she should be more than willing.

"Ruby, listen... You know, I don't get along well with too many other people, right?..." Yang questioned, taking her sister by the shoulder and sitting the two of them on a bench outside their dorm.

Ruby nodded. "Then..." Yang continued, "You must also know that there are few people i can truly connect with... Well, you see..." Ruby tilted her head to the side, listening carefully.

"I... Have..." Yang swallowed hard. She was about to finally tell someone her new and exciting feelings out loud for the first time. She could feel the thick haze of embarrassment creep up into a blush on her cheeks. "I think... I'm in love... with Jaune..." Yang was mentally screaming to herself. She clenched her eyes shut and squeezed her legs with all her might, preparing for what her sister might say in response.

"I KNEW IT!" Ruby exclaimed. Yangs eyes shot open and she looked at her now grinning sister. Ruby jumped off the bench and started bouncing up and down in joy. She did a little victory jig that ended in a cheesy Magical-girl-esque pose.

"W-What?..." Yang asked, very confused as to what was going on.

"S-Sorry sis..." Ruby chuckled a little and rubbed her head. "I Kinda maybe sorta tricked you a little. I uh... I don't actually like Jaune like that. I mean, he's cool and cute and all, but I am WAY too focused on school and training to even CONSIDER a relationship like that. Besides, he's like my closest bro." Yang just sat and stared at her little sister.

"You... Don't like him?..." Yang had a strange mixture of confusion and happiness whirling inside her as her brain was moving at a thousand miles an hour.

"Nope. It was a simple Bamboozle. I now know YOU like him, which was my plan. I've seen the looks you give him. I've seen the daydreaming and slight looks of happiness at the slightest mention of his name. I'm young and inexperienced, but I'm not stupid, stupid. I just had to hear it from your lips." Ruby gave her elder sister a pat-pat on the shoulder.

Yang wasn't mad. If anything, she was actually pretty happy. Who knows where this road would lead if Ruby actually had hard feelings for Jaune and wouldn't stand down. There was no way in hell she would ever hurt her darling sister. But, if things went the way she thought they were going to, Yang would've had to do some heavy planning and deceiving to stop it. Moreover, Ruby knew her secret, which meant keeping it was going to be so very much harder.

"Ruby... You can't tell ANYONE." Yang pleaded.

Ruby stopped bouncing. "What?! Why?..."

Yang quickly stood and grabbed her sisters shoulders. "Ruby... You don't understand... I've never felt this way about anyone. I need to do this on my own. I can't have anyone interfere. This is my first and only chance at finding out what it means to be a normal person that feels things for other people... Okay?"

With a look of sorrow in her eyes, ruby slowly nodded. Then, Yang did something she had never done in their lives. She gave ruby a long, heartfelt, hug. Rubys eyes shot open in shock. Yang had never shown any physical or verbal affections toward her since they were born. Ruby had a feeling in her stomach that she couldn't explain. Like, she had been waiting for this for so long. All those times Ruby had hardships or got in trouble. Yang would give her two cents on the situations but never did she actually comfort her. This was a brand new day for the sisters. Ruby wished she could thank Jaune for it. For making her sister feel. Ruby felt bad about lying to her sister about the way she felt, but it had to be done for her sake.

And because of that, Ruby decided she would put her love for Jaune aside.

The second semester at Beacon came as fast as could be. Everyone was happy things were going smoothly. Team Player and Brown sat together at lunch, per the norm. Yang sat next to Blake, both girls lost in thought about separate things. Yang found her eyes wandering over to Blakes Journal. There was some text and a couple drawings. Yang came out of dream world just long enough to make out a sketch of a man with a sword just as Blake snapped the journal closed. Yang blinked and looked up at Blake, who looked kind of depressed.

"Whats that?.." Yang asked. Her and Blake had never really interacted too much. Maybe she could change that. She needed to start opening up to more people if she was ever going to be the kind of girl Jaune could love.

"J-Just notes from last semester..." Blake responded. Yang squinted her eyes. Why would she have to lie about that?

Just then, Nora flicked a Strawberry at Yang. In a pure instinct reaction, Yang flicked her head to the side and caught the strawberry in between her teeth. Nora gave a fist pump in response and Yang the fresh fruit.

To everyones attention, something slammed hard at the end of the table next to Yang. Everyone looked over at a grinning Ruby. The thing that slammed on the table was a huge white binder with something crudely written on it with red marker. Yang immediately knew this was going to be a shit-show. So, she did her normal thing and just tuned out. Ruby gave some cheesy 'I have a dream speech' about something-something best day ever for their team. Jaune and Pyrrha were smiling and nodding, so Yang just mimicked them, still not listening to a word her sister was saying.

Pulling her out of her train of thought, someone bopped Yang in the forehead with an apple. It didn't hurt of course, but it was still irritating. Nora was grinning until she noticed Yang noticed. Yang threw the apple back her way, but Nora dodged and it hit someone behind her a couple tables away. They responded by throwing an entire pie but it missed and hit Blake in the face. A complete food war broke out. Turkeys were thrown, Lettuce was Launched, Watermelon was whiffed, Apples abound and plates on the ground.

The huge food war ended with Ruby using her lightning speed to make a hurricane of treats and launched it into the entirety of the enemy team. They were smashed into the wall and were smothered in a palettes worth of a rainbow of different foods and dinnerware. Once the mess came to a close, everyone had a hardy laugh about it. It was a good time and there were no hard feelings, at least, between the students. Glynda Goodwitch stomped in and cleaned the whole mess with a wave and flick of her wand. She grilled the students but was calmed by Ozpin. The two shared some words and they left.

The happiness Came and went as the two teams found themselves in classes once again. Yang sat with head in hand, daydreaming about her future hubby as per usual. She kept glancing Jaunes way. He was sitting a row in front of her, two seats to the right of Weiss. She decided to eavesdrop.

"So uh.. Hey, Weiss... You maybe wanna go... get something to eat with me after class. Then we can hang out... Maybe study together... Cuz, y'know... you're smart and I'm.. um.." Jaune scratched his head nervously.

The bell signaling class was over rang and Weiss immediately stood and went to walk away.

"Uh... Weiss?... Did you hear me?.." Jaune asked.

Weiss responded to all questions at once, "no, No, NO, and Yes I did." She then smugly trotted away. Jaune plopped his head face first into the table and let out a loud groan.

With a look of sadness in her eyes, Yang ran her hand through his hair to comfort him. She quickly pulled her hand away from his head, realizing what she was doing. As she walked away she whispered to herself, "One day..."

Later, in team Players room, Pyrrha and Ruby gathered the crew for a meeting. Jaune, Yang, and Pyrrha sat and listened as Ruby explained her mission plan. They were going to try to figure out why dust was going missing in stores recently and where this sudden crime spree was coming from. Jaune was all for it, which in turn swayed Yangs decision. They were going to search for inconsistencies in the schnee company to see where all the stolen dust was going. Yang told them she knew a guy downtown who knows a lot about the area and the criminals in it, so that was her job. Pyrrha also had a way of getting information, too, so that's where she was going. That just left-

"I could be of some help." A familiar voice said. Everyone truned to see Sun Wukong hanging from their window. The girls, besides Yang, gave a little yip in shock.

"What are you doing, creep!" Ruby shouted.

Sun did a flip and landed in front of them. "I just want to help out Blake like she helped me. I feel this could be the way to do so. To get some sort of revenge for her. Y'know?" His words were sincere but the revenge part was a little off.

"Also I brought my buddy Neptune!" Sun added. Neptune was standing on a ledge next to the window and his legs were shaking.

"H-Hi. I heard the predicament, and I gotta say, you guys are gonna need some help. Also, can I please come in... I'm really high up..." You could hear the absolute terror in his shaky voice in that last part so they pulled him in. Neptune met eyes with Yang. The absolute fear he was just showing immediately dissipated and he changed into a cocky lady-killer version of himself. It was like flicking a switch.

"Hey, there, Blonde-Bombshell. I don't think we've been introduced." Neptune said coyly with a sly smile spread across his face. He propped himself against the wall Yang was leaning against with his elbow.

'Is this guy serious?..' Yang and pretty much everyone else in the room simultaneously thought to themselves.

"Y-Yang Xiao-Long..." Yang introduced herself, inching away from him slightly.

Ruby butted in, "Aaaaanyway, We'll have to split into groups to cover more ground and for certain safety precautions. So, Sun will come with me to investigate the Schnee side of this whole craziness." Sun nodded, Ruby continued, "Neptune and Pyrrha will catch her lead. Jaune and Yang will catch Yangs lead. Good?" Neptunes head sunk. Yang locked eyes with Ruby. Yang would swear on their very own dead mother Ruby winked at her.

'Sister... I love you...' Yang thought to herself.

Everyone nodded and went their separate ways.

"So who's this contact you know?" Jaune asked, breaking the awkward silence between them as they walked.

"An old friend, really. And by friend I mean he's scum of the earth i beat information out of. A forceful informant, if you will." Yang replied. Jaune chuckled a little, not knowing that she wasn't joking.

The two arrived at a red and black clad bar.

"Uh... Yang... We aren't old enough to drink." Yang giggled a little at this and elbowed Jaune playfully in the arm.

"We aren't here to drink, silly." Yang stated, walking up to the door. The bouncer noticed whom was making their way up to him and he scrambled inside like a deer running from an Ursai. Jaune tilted his head in confusion.

Yang kicked the door open, knocking the two grunts and the big burly bouncer on their asses with a significant amount of ease. Loud techno music and annoyingly bright colored lights flooded from the bar. Jaune whimpered a little.

"I... thought you were joking..."

Ten grunts wearing black and red suits with black and red hats and sunglasses all pointed their guns at Yangs face. Yang grinned.

"Tsk-Tsk, boys. Don't you learn?..." Yang whispered. Yang loaded her shot-gauntlets and prepared to brawl. Jaune took a step back and put his hands up. He suddenly noticed a pair of girls standing next to him in a red dress and a white dress. He then took a step back from them and found his back up against the doorway.

"Wait Wait WAIT!" A gruff voice called from behind the group of men with guns. "Nobody shoot or you're fired!" He stated.

Yang smiled at the man as he passed through the crowd and stood in front of Yang.

"Blondie... You're here... WHY?"

Yang responded, "You still owe me a drink." She gave this sentence a little inflection, like it had a deeper meaning than what she was letting on. The look in his eyes affirmed it. He gestured for Yang to come over to the bar.

Jaune waved goodbye to the twin girls. "Uh... See ya?.." In response, the two gave a quick 'Harumph!' And spun and walked away from him. Jaune shook his head at the strange girls and followed Yang over to the Bar.

"So what's this all about, Blondie?.." The large man asked.

"What happened with You and Torchwick?..." Yang questioned.

The large man looked angry, "Look. He came in here. Paid me up front, I lent him my men, then they never came back. That's all thats happened since last time you were here and I haven't talked to him since. I SWEAR."

"Where'd they go?..." Jaune had been listening from a distance but he decided to join the conversation.

The gruff man gave him an evil look with squinting eyes.

"What kind of stupid question is that?! They Never. CAME. BACK. Who is this guy?!" He gestured at Jaune while glaring at Yang. She put her hand up seperating the guy from Jaune.

"Dont worry about him, worry about me, and what I'm going to do to you if I dont get the answers I'm looking for." Yang stated in a stern, strong voice.

The man glared harder, "Look, missy. I told you everything I know."

Yang grunted, then sighed. She tugged on Jaunes shirt, then the two turned and headed for the door. Jaune looked at Yang, whom seemed dissapointed and mad.

"Did we get what we needed?.." He asked.

"We got what we could. Lets just hope everyone else is doing better."

Suddenly, a little ways down the road. Yangs scroll started ringing like crazy. Yang pulled it up to see it was sun calling. Which was a little strange, considering she never gave him her number.

"Hello?.." Yangs ear was nearly blown off by Sun screaming.

"HELP! WE'RE BEING CHASED BY A GIANT WAR ROBOT AND I THINK THAT TORCHWICK GUY IS IN IT! I FOUND OUT BLAKE INFILTRATED THE WHITE FANG TO SEE WHAT THEY WERE DOING AND I WENT TO HELP BUT WE GOT CAUGHT AND NOW WE'RE BEING CHASED ANDWENEEDHELPPLEASESENDHELPOHMYGODIDONTWANTTODIE" Sun pleaded for help and even though she couldn't make out that last jumbled part, she got the gist of the situation.

"Where are you guys?!" Yang yelled.

Like fate itself was replying, two streets over, a screaming Blake and Sun ran by, A Giant battle bot following close behind, leaving destruction in its wake.

"Oh... My god..." Jaune whispered.

Yang sighed.

Jaune and Yang ran back to the dorms and hopped on Yangs new motorcycle. Yang hit the full gas and sped towards the highway, where the giant bot was chasing Sun and Blake down, blasting through multiple rows of cars in its path. Yang hit the throttle hard. They got close to the large rampaging machine.

"Jaune, you're going to have to attack!" Yang yelled.

Jaune nodded, and drew his sword. He launched himself off the bike and landed on top of the huge metal beast. He stabbed his sword through the top of its steel hull. Indicators blared in the cockpit of the destructive robot. Sun landed on top of a nearby Semi-Truck.

"Hang on, Jaune! I got you!" Sun sent out two clones of light. They flipped through the air and slammed into the mech, making it stumble back a little. Neptune came flying down from one of the overpasses above and shoved his spear through the top of the mech, a few inches from where Jaune had. Torchwick, with a growl, jerked the controls and threw Jaune and Neptune off the Mech. The two collided with Sun and went over the edge of the guard rail. Yang got a sudden burst of rage-fueled adrenaline. She hit the throttle even harder on her bike and jumped off, landing a hefty drop-kick into the side of the Mech. It toppled through two guard rails, and crashed onto the streets below.

Torchwick jerked the machine back to its feet. Yang jumped down and landed a ways away in front of it. Jaune fell off another overpass and crash landed next to her, quickly standing up and stating he's okay. Ruby and Pyrrha, who had also been contacted by sun, jumped down from who knows where and landed side by side next to Yang and Jaune. Team Player was here, ready and prepared for a fight, and Torchwick was going down.

"Ark-Light!" Pyrrha called out. Jaune and Yang nodded at each other and rushed the metal contraption in a DNA serpentine pattern. Yang grabbed Jaune by the collar, and tossed him high above the robot. Jaune came back down with a piercing blow to the robots right arm ligament. He lodged his sword in deep. Yang launched herself up to him and loaded her gauntlets. Jaune Pulled his sword from the metal beast and shoved the point of his shield in its place. Torchwick tried to shake them off but it was too late, Yang slammed her fist down hard on the top of Jaunes shield, the result being a large shield powered by tremendous blunt force tearing through the Mechs arm and severing it completely.

In the three seconds it took for Yang and Jaune to do this, Pyrrha led Ruby to a smashed support beam next to the mech.

"RUKOS BULLET!" The two shouted in unison. Ruby grabbed Pyrrha and, With her lightning speed semblance, the two swan dived towards the top of the mechanical monster. Inside the cockpit, Torchwick was smashing and slamming the controls every which way, trying to get it to dodge, but the severing of its arm already started causing multiple system failures. Ruby and Pyrrha span downwards with extreme amounts of speed. Pyrrha and Ruby, with Pyrrhas spear extended in front of them, drilled through the entire middle of the mech in an instant. They pierced the whole machine, as the name of the move implies, like a bullet. Yang grabbed Jaune and the two jumped away from the machine. Pyrrha and Ruby did as well.

The group thought the machine was going to explode, but it didn't. It just froze for a moment, then, like when blake dissapeared from a clone, it appeared right in front of the group, fist cocked. The Mech uppercutted Jaune, then did a spin-kick and launched Jaune through two support pillars. It pivoted and back handed Ruby and Pyrrha, tossing them into a near bridge. The window to the cockpit opened.

"Ha Ha Ha! You foolish children dont know when to quit, do you?! I'm going to change the world we live in! And if that means you don't get to be part of it, SO BE IT!" Torchwick cackled maniacally.

Yang stared at Jaune. He was face down next to a destroyed support beam. His eyes were wide, head bleeding, and he was gasping for air. The blow did heavy damage to him. It made sense, even now, he wasn't in complete control of his aura yet.

Yang clenched her fists so hard her palms bled. Her hair began to glow a bright yellow and her eyes turned crimson red. The mech threw a punch her way. She caught it in her open left palm. Torchwick jolted in surprise.

"W-WHAT?!" He yelled.

Yang reared her right fist back and crushed the monster robots ENTIRE left arm in a blow that could topple a skyscraper. Yangs knuckles on her right fist began to bleed but she didnt care. She shot her gauntlets at the ground and threw herself up to the robots cockpit. Torchwick, wide-eyed and scared, tasseled the controls, trying to throw Yang off. Yang delivered a firestorm of blows to the machine, each powered even further by a point blank shot gun blast from her gauntlets. 'boom Boom BOom BOOM' It sounded as if lightning was striking an empty metal water tower repeatedly.

The mech was ACTUALLY going into system failure now, and Torchwick was panicking. Yang reared her right fist once again, and this time, she pumped all of her rage, all of her hate, and the image of a hurt Jaune in her head down to her arm, along with her aura, and smashed through the hull of the mech. The robot exploded into a million pieces and then some. The explosion sent Torchwick flying, but he quickly recovered and dialed something into his scroll. Yang sent an aura powered shot gun shot his way, but a girl landed in front of him and blocked it with her umbrella. She gave Yang a wry smile and bowed.

This irritated Yang even more. She charged the two and slammed her fist into the girls cheek, but the two shattered like glass, and dissipated. It was just an illusion. The two had successfully escaped. Yang inhaled and exhaled heavily. She took a deep breath and calmed herself to normal levels.

"Did they get away?..." Ruby asked as she stumbled up to her sister, head still a little light from the heavy blow she took.

"Sorry, sis." Yang apologized.

"It's fine... this wont be the last time we see him..." Ruby stated.

"JAUNE!" Yang remembered Jaune was hurt. He was now on his back and not moving. Yang rushed over to him, and placed her hand on his cheek, trying to get a read on his aura.

"HELP!" Yang cried out. "He's low... I can't.. I.. " Pyrrha and Ruby rushed over. His aura had already healed the major head wound, but the pain of the blow took to much of a toll on him. Sun, Neptune, and Blake showed up.

"Where THE HELL were YOU guys?!" Yang yelled, grabbing Neptunes collar.

Neptune put his hands up, "W-We were attacked by this weird girl with an umbrella... She was REALLY fricking strong... sorry.." Yang scoffed at the sorry excuse. Neptune and Sun took Jaune by the shoulders and carried him all the way to the schools nurse.

Ruby and Pyrrha went to tell Ozpin what had happened. Sun and Neptune went home. That just left Blake and Yang to look after Jaune. The nurse had healed all the wounds she could, and it looked as though Jaune was going to be fine. However, even though he was stable and should be fine, he wasn't waking up. Yang prayed and hoped it was just because of a mixture of the fight and wounds and the student exhaustion. Yang pulled up a chair to his bedside and watched him carefully. Blake sat in the corner of the room, a look of concern on her face for her friends.

Around two in the morning, Jaune awoke to an empty and dark hospital room. Well, almost empty. Yang fell asleep on his legs. She had pretty much cried herself to sleep and you could clearly tell by the red-puffiness of her eyes. Jaune smirked. He was glad someone cared about him enough to stay with him all night.

"Thank You..." Jaune whispered as he brushed Yangs hair behind her ear with his hand.

This jolted Yang awake, her being an extremely light sleeper, and her jumping made Jaune jump and the two gave a simultaneous frightened shriek. Jaune threw his hands up.

"AH! S-Sorry! I didn't mean to! Don't hit me!"

Yang rubbed her eyes to make sure what she was seeing was real. Jaune was up and seemed to be perfectly okay. She couldnt be any happier. She lurched forward and captured him in a prolonged, heartfelt, hug. She squeezed him tight.

"Uh... Who are you, and what have you done with Yang?.." Jaune asked, jokingly. Yang and him shared a light giggle.

"Jaune..." Yang whispered in Jaunes ear.

"Yes?..." He replied.

"I... I lo-" Yang was cut off by Jaunes scroll ringing. Yang mentally slapped herself over and over. She wasnt ready to confess. 'What was she thinking?!'

Jaune looked down at the scroll.

"Just an E-mail. Anyway, continue?" Yang blinked at him then shook her head.

She sighed. "I loathe Torchwick... we'll get him back soon..." Yang made something up off the top of her head. She smiled at Jaune and he smiled back, so it seemed to work. After explaining to Yang a million times over that he was fine, he made her leave so he could get some rest, and so she could too. Yang went back to her dorm. Her teammates were already dead asleep. She plopped down on her bed and mentally beat herself at what she was about to say out loud to Jaune. She soon dozed off.

The next day, much to his grief, even though released with a clean bill of health, Jaune had to wear bandages on his head and arm just in case his wounds re-opened. He got a lot of questions and grief almost all day about it. Near the end of the school day, Cardin was giving Jaune a hard time about his wounds. This surprised everyone since the whole Ursai attacking Cardin and Jaune killing it thing should have cleared this all up. But, once a bully, always a bully. Today, though, neither Pyrrha nor Yang was having none of it. Pyrrha was the first one to speak up about it though, what with Yang not being as vocal.

"Look, Cardin, can you just eave him alone please?..." Pyrrha pleaded.

Cardin glared at Pyrrha. "Excuse me, petey-o's. I forgot you were the queen of the school."

Jaune bumped cardins arm with his elbow. "C'mon man, not cool."

Cardin flipped his script for no reason, "Y'now what, ARC. I think you're just a little too high up on that horse since you killed that Ursai. I give everyone shit! You aren't gonna get special treatment for doing once what everyone in this room does TEN TIMES a week!" Cardin slammed his hand on the table, and Jaune flinched. Jaune hung his head and his eyes filled with sorrow.

"You know... Cardin... You're absolutely right." Jaune collected his things, stood up, and walked away from the group and went to his next class, even though it started in fifteen minutes. Yang followed close behind to try to comfort and console him.

"Too Far, Cardin." Pyrrha stated. Her hands clenched into fists.

"What are you gonna do about it?..." Cardin asked with a sly grin.

Pyrrha glared back at him.

"Battle class." She said. "Your team... versus ME."

"All four of us versus little ol' you?.." Cardin asked cockily. Pyrrha nodded. Cardin bellowed out a slightly evil slightly stupid and sarcastic laugh.

"You're On! What's the catch?"

Pyrrha replied, "I win, you stop picking on everyone in this school." Cardin nearly died laughing. He couldn't control how stupid that sounded to him.

"Including Jaune-y boy?..." He added.

"Especially Jaune." She responded.

"Then..." Cardin said "If I win, you have to leave this school and tell everyone it's because you were so in love with me you couldn't take being so close..." Pyrrha winced and nearly threw up. She held it in and shuddered.

"Deal?" Cardin asked, extending his hand.

"Deal." Pyrrha shook it.

Hey Readers! Nice to get this chapter out! The robot fight was quick, I know, but it was fun to write. Anyway I just wanted to say thank you for reading and to leave a comment if you have any questions or ideas. ArcChaosLord, OUT!