Hello everyone, here I am with another chapter. I know some of you are surprised at the team pairing but it all has its reasons. Anyways, the school year is starting and that means interactions between his team. And even though things might get a little rough, don't worry this isn't a Weiss-bashing fic it's just a rocky start. Also, you may see Jaune get a little more comfortable around his teammates as the year progresses, my advice is to just sit back and wait a bit before you start commenting on his behavior.

With that, please enjoy the chapter.

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Jaune woke up to the buzzing of his alarm, his dreams had been, thankfully, barren of anything worth remembering so he took that as a sign of a good day. He lazily sat up, taking a moment for his eyes to adjust to the darkness before surveying the room. The shower was on with someone inside it, and considering Rin was gone from his bed, he assumed it was Rin. Weiss and Nora were still both asleep, with Nora's blankets being completely missing and Weiss looking like she was corpse from how still she was, so he decided to get together his uniform and knock on the shower door.

"Rin? You almost done?" he asked quietly, not wanting to wake his teammates.

"Yes, just give me another minute." came the soft reply from inside, he shrugged and sat down on his bed for a moment, looking through his scroll. His expression went sour at the fact he was having Port at 9:00 in the morning and then Oobleck almost immediately after. Sighing he tried to sit still while waiting for his shower, but the silence was interrupted by Weiss slowly awakening.

"Huh, wha- ughhhh." she groaned as she woke up groggily, he chuckled slightly and the prim heiress so disoriented.

"Good morning sunshine." he said, she groaned in distaste before fully sitting up.

"Whatever, who's in the shower?"

"Rin, and I got next."

"Hmmm, fine." she conceded getting her uniform from their dorm closet, suddenly Jaune's scroll pinged with a message notification.

Jaune, how are my neices doing? Did they do ok during initiation? -Qrow.

Jaune sighed as he typed back a reply. Yes Qrow they're fine, Yang is annoying but Ruby is on a team with her. She even made team leader. -Jaune

That's good, and don't let Yang get to you. That's how she wins. Enjoy Port and Oobleck sucker! -Qrow

Jaune growled as he snapped his scroll shut, it'd be just like Qrow to antagonize him this early in the morning.

"What's wrong with you now?" asked Weiss, annoyed at his mood.

"Nothing, we got our first class at 9 so make sure you're ready."

"Whatever team leader." he tic'd slightly but hid it, he knew this team was a bad idea.

Rin came out, towel wrapped around her but Jaune ignored it. He grew up with seven sisters and had Qrow as his mentor, he's gone far past the realm of being embarrassed by scantily clad women. He took his uniform into the shower and let the remaining hot water run down him, Weiss would throw a fit if there was none left so he made sure to get out in time.

He shrugged on his uniform, much too used to wearing already, and moved to wake Nora up seeing as she was still comatose.

"Nora, wake up you need to get ready." he said, shaking her slightly.

"Ugh, Jaune I would not recommend-" it was only through hours of hard training that Jaune managed to miss the fist that Nora shot out at his face, he jumped back on instinct and looked to Rin for answers.

"Yeah, she is kind of a strange sleeper. It'd be best if you let me handle waking her up from now on." Rin said apologetically, well far be it from him to decide her job. The rest of the morning went relatively normal, save for the fact Nora without her morning pancakes is something to watch out for. And soon enough Team ARSN was on their way to the cafeteria.

"Oh, before I go." he knocked hard against RYBN's dorm door and, after various sounds of thumping and slurred curses, a very groggy Yang opened it almost a minute later.

"What?" she asked, slightly frazzled and more than slightly annoyed by being woken up.

"The fact it is 8:25 right now and our first class is at 9 is what." he responded curtly, seriously did they expect him to mother them all year? Sighing as Yang practically screamed at her team to wake up right now he left with his team.

"They seem rather disorganized." commented Weiss with a backwards glance.

"Yeah, well they better get organized lest they fail their first semester." she nodded but didn't say anything, the only reason he was helping them out was because they were new students. He wasn't going to be there to tie their shoe laces when they trip, and if they can't learn that then what good are they here. They're going to get hurt.

The only reason.

Team ARSN walked down the corridor in almost complete silence, save for Nora humming a tune to herself that he saw Weiss find quite annoying. This team is a grenade with the pin pulled he though to himself, when he could talk to Ozpin he was going to headbutt her for such a stupid choice. The team walked down the corridor and rounded the corner to get to the exit, as they approached they heard something strange.

Laughing, or giggling more like coming from behind them. Weiss turned around to see a small group of girls huddled around another girl who was blushing bright red, with some whispered encouragement she skittered over to Team ARSN and more specifically their leader.

"H-Hi Jaune. I-I'm Rosemary LeRoux and I was just wondering you, like, wanted to hang out sometime?" she kept her eyes to the ground, probably for the better given Jaune's blank stare, before he answered.

"Sorry, but I'm going to have to decline. I don't date." she looked up sadly before trying a different approach.

"W-Well maybe I could get your number then? Or you could get mine? I mean we're in the same 4th hour-"

"No, that's final. I don't date huntresses, I'm not interested in sharing myself with anyone over some stupid attraction to my aura, I'm not dumb enough to believe your little club of fangirls are after me for my personality. Good day." he hissed before leaving, Rosemary standing there forlornly as she trotted back to her team who took her back in with sympathetic words.

"Everything ok Jaune?" Rin asked, shifting her gaze from the girl to her leader.

"Peachy Rin, let's go." Rin and Weiss shared a look but didn't say anything.

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"Rin, can you, in any way, get Nora to stop?" asked Weiss as she rested her head in her hand.

Rin shrugged slightly, most likely far to used to her behavior. "Sorry but no. Nora gets like this every morning so I apologize for the inconvenience."

"-And then there was this massive beowolf that was about to chow down on this little group of villagers. And they were all like 'Help us brave Nora!' so I swooped on there to save the lot with my trusty hammer-"

"Goddammit." He breathed, and of course they had Port almost immediately after. Tales from the second years and even the third years tell of the great beast that is Petunia Port and her legendary lack of need for air.

He watched halfheartedly as Team RYBN crashed through the front door and charged through the breakfast line to pick out whatever. It did garner some amusement to see Pyrrha trying to control her group like a mother controlling restless kids.

"So Jaune, you know what Professor Port is like I assume?" Rin asked as she delicately at her food, Jaune nodded although somewhat depressed.

"Yeah, prepare yourself by the way. If you think Nora talks a lot wait till you get a load of her." Rin nodded, looking completely unfazed but Weiss, for some reason, looked almost offended at that.

"How dare you talk about one of our professors that way?" she asked scathingly, Jaune did not so much look at her. "She has worked hard as a huntress and earned her right to teach at this academy!"

"Yeah, wait until you meet her kid." snorted Jaune, Weiss huffed and the two went back to silence. Nora spared Rin a glance but she just shook her head, this was something they needn't be involved in.

The tense moment was interrupted by Team RYBN coming over to their table, a certain redhead looking rather frazzled.

"How's the team Pyrrha?" Jaune asked, clearly amused with it. Pyrrha took a moment to breath deeply before answering.

"They're... interesting to say the least. Quite a handful but I've grown rather accustomed to them so far." she said with a tired smile, Jaune looked over at her team -who was currently playing with eachother's food- and felt an unwelcome sensation bubble up from his stomach but he crushed before it could take root.

"Well, if it's any consolation, Professor Port's class is going to leave you a burning desire for something interesting." Jaune said vaguely, Pyrrha cocked her head but said nothing about it.

"Well well well. If it isn't our resident predator!" came a voice from behind them, big ugly and ginger was leering in behind them with her team. Cressida Winchester was taller than even Pyrrha and Jaune, and she also packed the muscle to back it up.

"What do you want?" Jaune said, not looking at them.

"Just wanted to say hi to my fellow team leader." she sneered but Jaune did nothing, Team RYBN and the remaining members of Team ARSN looked at her carefully.

"Back off Cressida, not in the mood." Cressida's sneer turned into a snarl.

"What was that you ant?"

"Back off, or I'm going to put that stupid ass look on your face through a table." Jaune got up suddenly and faced the mammoth woman, looking her square in the eyes. No hesitation, if she punches first I'm going to send her to the ER.

The two looked like they were going to have a go at it but stopped when they heard the faint click clack of heels on tile. Turning they saw a stern-looking Goodwitch enter the cafeteria, and zero in on the two facing eachother down.

"Watch your back Arc." snarled Cressida before stomping away with her troop. Conversation returned to relative normalcy but the two teams noticed that Jaune didn't touch his breakfast for the rest of the time.

The teams finished their breakfast -with Yang and Ruby messing with eachother and Weiss looking on in disgust- and they made their way toward Professor Port's.

Here's hoping Port isn't as bad as everyone says.

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Well my hope has died horribly.

Port sat there talking about her grandmother and how she taught Port how slay Grimm in a spectacular fashion. She just droned on and on and on and by the 30 minute mark the class had tuned her out.

"-And then of course I faced the mighty boarbatusk using only my wits and my trusty boot. Which reminds me! I have captured a live boarbatusk to be used in a quick sparring match for today!" she finished with a cheer. "Now, any volunteers?"

Jaune did not feel like being involved in whatever comedy skit Port had planned for today so he wisely decided not to; however, that did not stop Weiss from raising her hand almost immediately.

"I'll do it professor!" she shouted.

"Excellent Miss Schnee! Excellent! Please, get your equipment and come back here for your fight." Weiss nodded and left and, maybe 10 minutes later, she returned with her gear and rapier.

In the time she was gone Port had taken out a large cage that growled and snorted angrily every so often. A pair of glowing red eyes hovered dangerously in the dark confines of the cage, but Weiss, to her credit, looked unperturbed as she readied her stance.

"Ok? Begin!" Professor Port shouted as she used her mighty blunderaxe to break open the cage's lock and the boarbatusk came rampaging out.

Weiss rolled out of the way of the initial charge and tried to go in for a piercing strike. That's not going to work, the armor is too thick sure enough her rapier bounced off and the crafty Grimm caught it in its tusks. Weiss struggled against it but the boarbatusk quickly threw the weapon to the other side of the room.

"The belly has no armor!" Jaune lazily called out, she glared and him with gritted teeth but, using her glyphs as springboards, managed to retrieve her weapon. Thinking fast, the boarbatusk lunged towards but she jumped over it, using a glyph to knock it of balance, and used another glyph as a springboard to impale the creature.

Weiss sat there huffing and puffing to herself as Port clapped vigorously.

"Amazing! We are in the presence of a true huntress-in-training!" she said happily, Weiss nodded and returned her gear. Suddenly, the bell rang and Port shrugged it off.

"It seems we are out of time, please remember to read pages 10-27 for tonight and a short essay on it by tomorrow!" there were assorted groans but the class shuffled out anyway.

Jaune, Rin, and Nora caught up with Weiss outside the class who was still nursing her minor wounds.

"Are you ok?" Rin asked, looking for any major cuts.

"Are you kidding me Rinny? My partner is super strong!" Nora cheered, flexing her muscles for good measure.

"I'm fine thank you." she then turned her glare towards Jaune who didn't flinch a bit. "And you, what gives you the right to shout at me in the middle of a match?"

"I only did it to help, you would've been lying in a hospital bed if I had not given you that hint." Weiss growled and grit her teeth.

"No I wouldn't, you nagging nearly cost me that spar!" Jaune looked unperturbed by Weiss's outburst.

"You're angry at me for helping you because you wanted to be the leader?" Jaune said unenthusiastically, that made Weiss stop for a moment but it didn't make her any happier. "Well if you want to talk to Ozpin be my guest, you probably won't have much luck in the subject but just know I agree with you. I won't make a good leader."

Jaune walked off to their next class with Rin and Nora following him. Weiss looked around for a moment before deciding to take a different route, as she rounded the corner she bumped into Ozpin herself who was strolling down the hall.

"Headmistress Ozpin! Sorry about that!" Weiss apologized courteously.

"It's no problem Miss Schnee, but I sense something troubling you?" she asked, taking a sip of her mug.

"Well, it's just that ma'am- Why did Jaune become team leader!?" she didn't mean to semi-shout the last part but she did much to her surprise.

"Why wouldn't he be?" asked Ozpin, completely unfazed by her outburst.

"He's arrogant, cold, mean, confrontational, doesn't work well with others, and by his volition said he would not make a good leader!" she said, looking to the woman for help.

"I see, yes. Well Miss Schnee the reason we make certain people leaders is their ability to to grow as one." she sipper her mug. "Jaune hasn't had a particularly good life, for reasons I cannot explain to you, but we all sense a great potential in him."

"It isn't the staff favoring him that got him the leader position, for you see, here at Beacon we encourage all our students to grow in the areas we seem to think they fit the most. Mister Arc has the unprecedented potential to grow, with a mind like a tactician and the skills of a true warrior, he can become something incredibly great, but his biggest obstacle is his inability to communicate."

"His... inability to communicate?"

"Yes, Jaune has a severe distrust for those around him especially authority figures. His past would not let him forgive and forget so easily, so instead he became a very guarded and frigid person to be around. We brought together your team because your mission, hopefully from now on, is to get your leader comfortable with being around you all. Once you do that, I think you'll find that he's a much different person."

"O-Ok, but, if I may ask, what happened to him Headmistress?" Weiss asked tentatively, she always assumed he had that same ignorant hatred for Schnees like most faunus sympathizers.

She shook her head. "It's not my place to tell you, but I were to guess, I would say that getting him to tell you himself would be a good first step."

Weiss nodded and watched as Headmistress Ozpin walked off. "Get him to open up...?" she mumbled quietly before going to join her team in Professor Oobleck's class.

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God guys I am so sorry about the short chapter. Honestly this one was kinda hard to write, I didn't want to reveal some of the things I was thinking of yet but this chapter needed to get out. Don't worry though, the next chapter will be much more rewarding and much better! Please be patient and bear with me for the time being.

XOXOXO

CoffeyJoe