A/N: Heyo! Itsa me, PotnPan, here to bring you another chapta! Lul, anyways, I loved the feedback from last chapter, which was pretty much: 'W0t? Cardin's an #$(*!'
I feed off this stuff, man.
And again, sorry for the people who were mad at my shoehorning, this was kinda what I was going for when I did that.
Guest: Hahaha, yeah, Cardin's not the sharpest mecha-shift weapon in the shed. And right now? Idunno. Officially, I've never heard it mentioned, so in my headcanon, Aura activated = semblance, and ya kinda need an aura to well.. survive in a Hunter Academy... so. Yeah.
Cain: 1st off, Jaune has no idea this is happening. 2nd off... well, you're not wrong. XD
Enjoy!
"You know, you're here so often that I'm starting to think you've forgotten how to get back to your own room." Yang said teasingly, looming over Jaune and Blake. Jaune gave a smile.
"Nah, I just secretly messing with your shampoo every time I come over." Jaune replied easily. Yang's smile morphed into an angry scowl, her finger poking Jaune's chest.
"Don't even joke about it lover-boy." Yang said, before moving over to her bunk and opening a drawer up. "What're you even doing here anyways?" Jaune and Blake looked at each other, quickly coming up with a cover-up story that would convince the nosiest of all their friends.
"Nothing." They both said simultaneously. Yang paused in her shuffling and stood up, turning to the two of them, who both had stoic expressions.
"Really? That's strange, 'cause you guys were whispering about something until I came." Yang said cynically. "Are you sure there's nothing you want to tell me?"
The two of them both shook their heads, a little frantically.
"Huh. Well, that's a great then." Yang said, tapping the bed frame thoughtfully. Blake glanced at Jaune nervously.
"Why's it a great?" Blake asked.
"Well, I was just thinking that if there's really nothing that you guys want to include me in, I'm kinda free for today, and I would just love to spend time with my partner and her boyfriend." Yang said happily.
"He's not my boyfriend." Blake said, rolling her eyes. Yang shrugged.
"So, what do you wanna do besties? Go to the mall? Go somewhere to eat? Spar until we all drop? Come on guys, I want to fill this whole entire day up with fun! We aren't going to stop until midnight!" Yang declared, her hands raised to the sky. Jaune and Blake looked at each other in mortification.
"Uh, actually Yang, Blake was going to help me." Jaune said, desperate to try and find a way to throw Yang off their scent.
"On what?" Yang asked, pretended to be interested.
"His schoolwork, what else Yang?" Blake said, inserting herself in before Jaune could shoot himself in the foot. "He hadn't really been focused in his studies, so I'm going to help him catch up with that." Jaune smiled at that. It wasn't a bad excuse.
"Oh, well, if he needs help, why doesn't he go to Weiss? You know she has the best notes, and she can definitely teach Jaune what he needs to know. I'll contact her now." Yang said, pulling out her scroll.
"Uh, you don't need to do that." Jaune said hurriedly, making Yang pause. Looking up from her scroll, she raised an eyebrow.
"Why not?" Yang asked. "Wouldn't that help?"
"Er, yes it would." Jaune said, floundering a little helplessly. "I just, uh, well—I'm more comfortable with Blake, and she knows her stuff too." Jaune said uncertainly. Blake wanted to smack him on the head, knowing that Yang wasn't going to buy something like that when Jaune was lacking so much confidence in his reasoning.
"Oh well that's fine, but you should really learn to socialize more too Jaune. And besides, wouldn't it be helpful to have two people who know what they're doing tutor you?" Yang asked, tapping away at her scroll.
"No really it's fine, maybe we can do that some other time?" Jaune asked weakly, trying to find a way to salvage the conversation. Yang glanced up at Jaune and Blake.
"Oh well, I've already messaged Weiss, so she'll be here in a minute anyways. Why don't you just try it out now, since she's on her way?" Yang asked.
This was starting to spiral way out of control.
"Well, we were kind of wanting to start it as soon as possible and we wouldn't want to—"
"Oh, well I got a message that someone needed my help in schoolwork?" Weiss said, timing her entrance almost too perfectly. Yang and Weiss looked at each other, trading inconspicuous looks before Weiss continued to talk.
"Well, rest assured, you are in no better hands than mine when it comes to school work. In about three or so hours minimum, we'll have you all caught up with the rest of us." Weiss raised her head haughtily. "And a Schnee never goes back on their word."
At this point, both Jaune and Blake were wilting like four week flowers.
"Wow, I mean three hours? Is that really necessary?" Jaune whimpered, his body feeling as if it should be sliding against the floor. Weiss nodded confidently.
"At minimum. If you are talented at studying. This could go on deep into the night however, but not to worry, one night of lost sleep won't kill us." Weiss declared. Again Jaune whimpered.
"Well, I was thinking that me and Jaune could go get some dinner before we started to work, and I know that the both of you have already ate so—" Blake started, trying another avenue of escape.
Alas, it was not meant to be.
Ruby popped through the door, arms laden with a tray full of food. The two prisoners groaned.
"H-hey guys, I was juuuust walking to the room and decided that maybe you guys needed some food so I went there and brought some out of my own thought and not because we're trying to keep an eye on you or anything." Ruby said suavely. The other two that were trying to keep Jaune and Blake in the room groaned at Ruby's lack of acting.
"Thanks Ruby, that wasn't a dead giveaway at all." Yang moaned dramatically, falling to the side while Weiss simply dropped the books she had in her hand back on her desk.
"It's not like you guys weren't as obvious." Jaune muttered under his breath. Whether Yang didn't hear what Jaune had said or simply ignored him wasn't known, as she turned to face the two of them, her face set in determination.
"Alright then, we'll cut to the chase." Yang said, her hands on her hips. "We know that you two have been planning on chasing down leads for the White Fang again, and we don't want you to do it."
The two of them wanted to protest, and were about to do it before Yang added onto her sentence.
"We don't want you two to do it alone." Yang finished.
Jaune and Blake settled back down, conflicted. While it was nice to see the all of them so determined, the two delinquents weren't sure if they wanted to drag Blake's team into trouble because of it.
"Guys, that's a really nice thought, but I'm sure we can handle it ourselves." Jaune said. Blake nodded as well.
Yang looked at the two of them before shrugging.
"Well, if you guys don't want us to help, I guess that's that." Yang said. The blonde and black haired pair lowered the shoulders a little, relaxing at the admission, if not a little surprised.
"But I guess the three of us will just have to start our own operation and try to find out as much about the White Fang as we possibly can." Yang continued casually. Blake winced at that, knowing fully well that the Ruby, Weiss, and Yang wouldn't know enough about the White Fang to get themselves out of the trouble that was sure to occur if they started kicking up a ruckus.
"But I don't think three people will be enough…" Yang said, her finger tapping rhythmically against her chin. "Maybe we ought to ask the rest of Jaune's team for help too."
This time it was Jaune who winced.
The reason why he was being so secretive in the first place was to reduce the amount of people involved in trying to uncover how alchemy was involved in this. Yang dragging them into this would defeat the painstaking efforts that Jaune had taken to try and keep his team out of this.
And with that, the two of them were caught, hook, line, and sinker. They deflated a little bit and gave out sighs of resignation.
"Alright then, I guess we could use the help." Blake admitted reluctantly. RWY all looked at each other in relief, Yang pumping her fist in celebration.
"Cool. What can we do to help?" Yang asked.
Blake and Jaune looked at each other.
"We need some information on the Dust that the White Fang are stealing. Maybe there's a specific pattern that's involved in this that we can look into." Jaune said. Weiss nodded.
"I can access the Scnhee database to look over all of the records over the last few months about the stolen Dust. Ruby can come with me." Weiss said, Ruby nodding excitedly beside her.
"I have information on a gathering of White Fang members that's happening tonight, so I guess I'll go there to see if there's anything I can get out of there." Blake said, nodding to herself. "Jaune can come with—"
"Actually," Yang jumped in, hooking her arm to grab Jaune by the neck, almost strangling him. "I think Jaune and I can go and hit up a place. I've got a friend that knows a bit of the underground, and I need some muscle with me."
"You need muscle?" Jaune wheezed out, before Yang tightened her grasp and cut off enough oxygen to prevent Jaune from saying anything else. Blake looked at Yang and Jaune, eyebrows lowering.
"Well, I could use some help too…" Blake started to say, before Yang held up her hand.
"That is true, but is Jaune really going to be cut out for this? I mean, if you're infiltrating the White Fang, don't you need to be, I don't know, faunus to do so? And Jaune's a lot of things, but he ain't a faunus." Yang reasoned. Blake's ears flattened.
"Then I guess I'm going there by myself." Blake said quietly. Once again, Yang held her hand out to stop Blake's train of thought.
"Oh come on Blakey, do you really think I'll send my partner into the White Fang without some kind of backup?" Yang asked, before scoffing. "Please. I thought you knew I was better than that."
Blake raised an eyebrow in question, her stomach quick to tell her that whatever Yang had in mind was not going to be something that she would enjoy.
"What do you have in mind then?" Blake asked cautiously. Yang grinned at Blake and Jaune before pointing to the window behind them. Turning, the two of them were met with a full view of a shock of blonde hair, a sleek tail, and some very exposed abdominals.
As the two of them stared at what seemed like a monkey faunus hanging outside the tree branches outside their window, Yang went on to introduce them.
"Guys, meet Sun Wukong, whose a student from Haven. We met him after you guys left us at the docks when he was running away from the ship that he stowed away on." Yang said, summing up their first meeting quite neatly. "And he's a faunus." Yang added in helpfully, before walking up to the window and unlocking the frame, pushing it open for Sun to jump through.
Landing next to Blake, Sun gave a big smile to her, leaning forward a little.
"Hey there." Sun greeted, holding out a hand for Blake to shake. "I was told that there was a pretty girl—uh, I mean, pretty big problem that I could help you out with?"
Blake turned to Yang with an expression that could have only meant You have got to be kidding me right now. Of course, Yang just stood there, arms behind her back, her smile still very smug.
"So you're the fourth member of these lovely ladies, huh?" Sun asked, still smiling. "Well I can definitely say that you uphold the standards for beauty in this team." Blake forced out a smile and shook Sun's hand.
"Nice to meet you." Blake said politely. Sun simply smiled wider, hand clasped against Blake's a little longer than what was normally acceptable.
Something that was quickly fixed with Jaune clearing his throat angrily.
Sun pulled his hand back, turning to the fifth person that was in the room.
"Oh hey there. You're gonna be helping this girls out too? Nice to meet you." Sun said happily. Jaune held out his left hand to shake with, which Sun grabbed onto pretty quickly.
"Jaune." Jaune introduced himself shortly.
"Jaune huh? Pretty cool name. So where did Team RWBY get you from—yeeowch, wow! You've got one heck of a grip." Sun exclaimed, prying his hands out of the iron clutch of Jaune's hand.
Jaune smiled coldly back at Sun.
"They didn't pick me up." Jaune said, his tone filled with terrifying steel. "I picked them up."
And with that, Jaune turned and strode out of the room, leaving Team RWBY in utter shock.
Sun turned around to see their faces and gave a weak smile.
"I'm guessing that I didn't make the best impression?" Sun said, rubbing his hand.