meredinoemiliano- Thank you, shame about your account though. P.S: Interesting possibility, we'll have to wait and see.
RWBYSTRQ- Thank you. I, hopefully, won't be gone for that long ever again. Then again, it is me we are talking about.
scottusa1- Thanks mate.
YunBranwen- I never said it was, you seem to have misunderstood what was being described in that section. What was happening was Raven calling the act of sex itself an almost demeaning title as a way of hiding the fact that she enjoyed sex greatly. Breastfeeding was not the sexual activity that was being referenced here nor was it being called called a sexual activity.
Mata Nui- Thanks and don't worry you will, as soon as I stop procrastinating, also known as, whenever you are reading this.
Tai sighed, calming an excited blonde dragon down was proving to be a nightmare. After all, it wasn't often that Yang got to go into town. The fact that Raven was doing something for Ozpin and thus was unable to help him just made things worse.
Just to rub salt into the wound, Summer and Qrow had taken Ruby and gone to Vale for whatever reason. Something about old acquaintances.
All-in-all, the day was already down the shitter and it wasn't even noon yet.
The main town on Patch was imaginatively named Patch. It was large as seaside towns went with a population of around 20,000. It was famed for it's sandy beaches, beautiful scenery, abundant wildlife and great ice cream.
Team STRQ lived up a fairly dusty road at the back of the town. The road was known for being more or less Grimm free, unless you counted the full on assault that Patch took a few years ago.
"Dad, can we go for ice cream?" Yang asked Tai, puppy dog eyes on their maximum setting.
Tai faltered, while he had grown resistant to the eyes due to the fact that Summer used to use them all the time, he could still feel the pressure that only adorableness could give. Not that Summer needed them, she was team leader and thus, her word was law amongst team STRQ.
"Later Yang, we'll go to the beach first and then have lunch," Tai replied, rubbing the back of his head.
Yang pouted but she knew there was nothing she could do to change his mind. When her father was serious he was as stubborn as a mule. Something she had inherited according to her mother. Being the kid she was though, she couldn't see it.
Upon seeing the beach, Yang started sprinting down, "Dammit", Tai sighed before running after her, "Yang! Wait up!"
The yellow dragon ignored her father, continuing running towards the beach with reckless abandon, eyes not focused on where she was going.
She hit something with a loud thump and a child's cry of pain before she and whoever she ran into got swarmed by a swarm of girls with multicoloured hair. 'It's like a rainbow...' she briefly thought in childish innocence.
"Apologise!" One of them demanded, garishly green hair, making the situation look almost comical if it wasn't for the mortal peril she realised she now faced. Angry siblings.
"Yang!" She heard her father call. "Excuse me, can I get to my daughter," he asked the swarm of girls.
"Not until she apologises for hurting our brother!" The one with aqua hair said stubbornly.
"Your brother-" Tai was cut off by a different voice, this time an adult. "I leave you alone for one minute and you swarm somebody," a clearly disappointed woman with strange silver, almost metallic, hair said. In her arm was another child, this one with less gaudy red hair.
"Mom!" The only girl with a normal hair colour, brown, said in a voice that brought Tai back to his childhood, the accusing voice, "This girl," she gestured towards Yang, "Ran into Jaune!"
Yang temporarily cowered in fear as the woman's gaze turned towards her, eyes glistening a deep blue, before they turned soft, "Can you tell me what happened?"
"I was running towards the beach when I ran into, umm, Jon?", "Jaune", " I was going to say sorry before the girls were mean to me," Yang said, rather scared of the situation around her.
"LI-", "Marron, that is enough! Must you be so blindly protective of your brother?" the woman asked, almost rhetorically. None of them answered, quite obviously scared by their mother and ashamed by their actions.
The woman turned towards Tai, "My apologies for the actions of my daughters, they treat Jaune like he is always going to be young and needs to be protected. I've told them that will lead to problems later in life but..." the woman took a moment to sigh, "They never listen. Where are my manners? I'm Argent Arc."
"Taiyang Xiao-Long but please just call me Tai, everyone else does," Tai offered his hand out to Argent, who took it gladly. There was something about her surname that seems incredibly familiar to him but he couldn't quite place his finger on it. There was a brief moment before the handshake broke and Tai turned back towards the children, gesturing towards them, "What are we going to do about them?"
"I have an idea. Jaune!" said boy, who had just gotten up from the floor, turned his head towards the sound of his mothers voice, "Go and play with, Yang?", the girl nodded.
Jaune turned towards his fellow yellow person, slightly trembling but with a smile on his face. One which Yang returned. "But mom-" one of the Arc sisters tried to protest.
"Violine, I will have no more accusations against Yang here. Now go play", Argent cut her daughter off with finality.
Yang gave Jaune a huge grin and grabbed the slightly taller boy by the hand and dragged him with her down to the beach, "Come on!"
Tai smiled at the scene before sighing, "I should probably keep an eye on them", he turned towards Argent, "How long are you planning on being here?"
"We're going to be here for a week, why? Are you making advances?" she gave the taller man a quizzical look.
Tai held his hands up defensively but wasn't flustered, "Relax, I'm already spoken for, I was just wondering if we can get them to play more," he looked towards the ground somewhat forlornly, "Yang doesn't have very many friends."
"That's not a problem," Argent replied, making Tai smile, "Because of his sisters", she glanced over to the group of girls who were glaring at Yang, "and their overprotective nature towards him, Jaune was never able to make any friends." She snorted for a brief moment, "They kept on scaring the kids who wanted to be Jaune's friend off, even if they had a decidedly good nature."
"Is he the second youngest?" Tai asked, taking note of the baby in Argent's arm.
"Yeah, he was always treated as the baby in the family. I admit to doing this sometimes but it was never to the extent the girls or even my husband did," she answered, making Tai chuckle. "Thankfully his focus has moved onto little Rouge here," Argent smiled at the little red haired girl that she was carrying.
They looked back up towards Yang and Jaune who seemed to be playing some kind of game similar to tag.
As he was being dragged by Yang, Jaune noted how ridiculous the situation had been. Similar incidents had happened before, of course, poor Urdin from down the road was not lucky enough to be saved by Argent and the boy had run away crying to his mother. Argent reprimanded the girls but the damage had been done and Urdin refused to he near Jaune in fear of his crazy sisters and what they might do to him.
But this was just crazy, this girl, Yang if he heard right, wasn't even trying to be his friend at the start and had ran into him accidentally and had actually been saved from being bullied by his older sisters. Not only that but the girl jumped at the idea of being his friend and now here he was being pulled by said girl to the beach that Patch was so famous for.
The girl had then stopped lightly slapped him on the shoulder and exclaimed, "Tag!" before running away. It took a moment for his brain to catch up but as soon as it did, Jaune got to his feet and stated chasing after Yang.
Not to much avail mind you, Yang had already gotten a fairly large headstart and always kept that distance, much to Jaune's frustration.
In an act of pure determination, he waited for a brief moment to catch his breath and, taking note that Yang wasn't looking back towards him, when Yang turned to the left Jaune sprinted towards Yang's trajectory and, when he was within 6 feet of the blond girl, jumped forwards with his arm outstretched. His hand hit Yang right in the shoulder, completely by surprise which he guessed from the surprised yelp that the girl made, and said "Tag."
Tai blinked in surprise, "Looks like Jaune has a tactical mind, would work well as a leader," he noted
Argent looked as equally as bewildered, "I guess there was a reason that Charbon always plays chess with Jaune," she muttered under her breath.
"Charbon?" Tai repeated.
"My husband, he's a hunter and Jaune has great admiration for him," Argent replied, "He wants to follow in his father's footsteps but the girls won't let him. I'm not too keen on it either but I wouldn't stop him from following his dreams."
"Did your husband attend Beacon by any chance?"
"Yes, wait, don't tell me your a hunter?"
"Yes, yes I am. He was a couple of years above mine but we interacted sometimes, kind of a weird guy from what I remember," Tai mused.
Argent started to laugh, "That's him alright. Were you around when he started a lunchroom war over a grape?"
"He told you that story? Yep, I remember that, I also remember getting knocked out halfway through by a grapefruit thrown by my own team leader," Tai grinned at the somewhat embarrassing memory, "I never saw how it happened but my teammate Qrow said that Charbon got blasted out the window by an already stale baguette, right into one of the teachers. He got detention for three months."
"He never told me that bit," Argent remarked.
"He would have had to preserve some of his manliness and pride. It was badly wounded at that point, who knows what would happen if his family would find out about it," Tai replied, amused grin stretching from ear to ear.
"Since you're the hunter, how would you suggest Jaune getting a loose from the grip of his sisters?" Argent asked, turning the conversation serious again.
"Does Charbon support it?"
"He has actually offered to train Jaune before but his sisters got in the way each time, before Jaune could actually answer," Argent grimaced at the memory before glancing back over to where her daughters were standing, still glaring at Tai's daughter.
Tai, noticing the look towards the Arc sisters and the grimace on her face, whisper into Argent's ear, "Has his aura been unlocked yet?" Argent shook her head in response. Tai sighed, just as he suspected, keeping his whisper up he continued, "Unlock it in secret, perhaps in the middle of the night or somewhere the girls can't access."
Their conversation was abruptly ended by a cry of ,"Mom!"
Yang was now on the offensive, never quite catching the lankier Arc who would!d always jump out of the way when she went to tag him, leading the girl to often slide along the sand, aura protecting her from any real damage.
Jaune himself was nearly exhausted. Him lacking aura meant he couldn't run as much as Yang could, he was actually impressed with himself that hadn't yet collapsed though he was very much running on empty without an afterburner. He was conserving as much as he could, ducking and dodging where possible and always keeping an eye on where Yang was.
Yang was getting close again, arm poised for the tag. Jaune attempted to roll out of the way again, feeling confident enough to try it again. He then felt his left leg slip on the sand and he unceremoniously fell on his side.
Yang stopped dead in her tracks and kneeled down to the boy. "You okay?" she asked voice having an worried and nervous edge.
"Yeah," Jaune grunted as he picked himself up into a sitting position.
Yang sighed in relief and sat beside the boy, "What you did back there was cool."
"You think so?" Jaune asked, somewhat meekly.
"Yeah, you would be a good fighter," Yang said in return, nodding her head enthusiastically, like she agreed with another version of herself inside her own mind.
Jaune blinked in surprise, "You sure?"
"Yep," Yang replied, popping the latter 'p'.
"I hope you're right," Jaune muttered.
"I know I'm right!" Yang almost snapped back before recoiling, "Sorry, sorry! What's wrong?"
"I want be a hunter but..."
"But what? It is them?" Yang asked Jaune, gesturing towards Jaune's sisters with a scowl on her face.
"Yeah.. Don't get me wrong, I love my sisters but they love me a bit too much. They won't let me follow my dream 'cause they are scared of me being hurt," Jaune explained, head facing down into the white sand.
"Have you ever... uh, argued with them?" Yang asked.
"No, there are too many and I can't be heard over them as they shout and it hurts my head," Jaune sighed, "It won't work."
"Ever asked your mom or dad, even just to get them away?"
"Uh-huh, they tried but..."
Jaune's silence said a lot to Yang, rage slowly building as it had done all through their conversation. From what little about Jaune's sisters she had and heard, she hated them. Jaune was perfectly capable for being a hunter and she knew that his aura would protect him, even if she had subconsciously known that it was not unlocked yet.
She looked over to where the sisters were standing, their glare focused directly on the yellow dragon returned the glare in full. It was taking every sliver of what little self restraint she had to prevent from charging at them.
To the sisters, it was like something had possessed the Xiao-Long. Her eyes, while still lilac in colour, seemed to be on fire on the inside. Her face was twisted into a nasty snarl and her hair had an unnatural but very slight glow.
Jaune saw how Yang was looking at his sisters and knew that the situation was one straw away from turning ugly. He glanced over to where Tai and Argent were talking and knew had to let them deal with it. He knew that Yang was, by this point, too angry to be calmed down by simple words. He also knew that his sisters would never back down, even if they had no training and were scared by Yang's anger.
He stood up and started to run, even if his ankle was still a bit sore and he was still a bit puffed out from the tag, he ran as quick as his legs could carry him. "Mom!" he shouted.
Argent looked over to where her son's voice was coming from and saw the boy pointing to where her had started pointing, Tai following suit. They saw how Yang was staring at the Arc girls and their eye's went went wide, "Shit..." Tai muttered under his breath.
"Yang!" he shouted. His daughter briefly looked towards him before moving her gaze back onto the sisters. "Dammit!" he ran over to where Yang was and got in front of the stormy girl, "Yang, calm down."
"They won't let Jaune do he wants," she said simply, as if she was replying to an unasked question.
"I know, Little Dragon, I know but you can't attack them," Yang just looked at her father, fiery eyes cooling ever so slightly, "I know you're angry, I'm not impressed with their behaviour either, but please understand that force can't change everyone, even if I'd like that to be true,* Yang's eyes cooled more and the snarl disappeared, turning into more of a grumpy face. The hair remained, however, the glow unsettling Tai greatly.
Argent had made her way over with a worried Jaune in tow, "Girls, back to the hotel," she ordered, voice giving no quarter.
The Arc sisters scowled but acquiesced, turning away from the angry Xiao-Long and heading towards the hotel that was down the boulevard that bordered the beach.
Argent sighed and turned back towards Tai. "Here's the phone numbers of my husband and I," she said to him passing a slip of paper to Tai, "Give a wring if Yang wants to play with Jaune again."
"Thank you. Do you write these down in batches?" ha asked, pointing out the oddity of just having your phone numbers written down as Argent had never taken her phone out once.
"Charbon's idea, not mine. Though it does come in handy," she muttered, barely audible to Tai and the seething Yang. "I'll see you both sometime this week."
As Argent walked away, Jaune took the opportunity to say, "Bye!" to Yang before shooting off after his mother.
Yang just nodded at Jaune's back, "Let's go for ice cream, Yang."
To say that the girl cheered up would be an understatement.
I would just like to say that I can't keep my promises to the readers. To those that have been loyal the whole way through, I'm sorry.
On the plus side, this is the longest thing that I have ever written on this website, including the the now nonexistent stories from years ago that were absolute bollocks.
See ya
DaPika
P.S: If I have portrayed the people who are responsible for Jaune's inability to pursue his dream wrongly, it doesn't matter, it's Fanfiction, it's not meant to be accurate.