She laid there in his warm embrace. Her head resting on his chest, listening to the steady beating of his heart. She looked up at his face which was being illuminated by the moonlight. He looked so peaceful when he was asleep. She didn't want to wake him but she couldn't resist gently putting her hand through his hair, his golden locks secretly hoping he would open his beautiful blue eyes. He didn't even stir. She was a little disappointed but it was okay.
There was a light tapping at the door before it opened. Standing in the frame of the door was a little girl in a pink onesie and holding a yellow stuffed chinchilla. Her hair was a mixture of yellow and brown. Her left eye was blue while the right was brown and it looked like she had been crying.
"Mommy, can I sleep with you and daddy tonight? I had a scary dream." The child asked quietly.
The mother got up and made her way to the child. She picked up her child and kissed her on the forehead before closing the door. The child was put in between the father and mother and they all slowly drifted off to sleep.
Neo awoke suddenly.
It had been a week since the whole train incident. Her uncle had been taken into custody, the police had ended up raiding her home, her scroll had been broken, she has almost no money and her life is just generally shit right now.
All she really managed to get from her home before the police had showed up was her brown hoodie and sweatpants which were quite dirty right now. Oh, was it not mentioned that she had to sleep generally in alleyways or maybe under bridges since the incident.
Neo made her way out of the alley, pulling her hood up to hide her hair. She was going to try and get some food with what little money she had. The walk to the store was tiring since she hasn't eaten much in the past few days.
She thought about her current dream. She has been having these dreams a lot lately. All of these dreams were about him and she didn't really know why. In one dream she was at a fancy restaurant with him. In another he was putting a ring on her finger while she wore a white dress and he wore a tuxedo. One dream which wasn't as... Tame as the others so to speak. Remembering that dream in particular caused Neo to blush slightly.
Neo was a little caught up in remembering her dreams that she accidentally ran into someone. Neo fell to the ground with a thud. She looked up to see two girls looking at Neo.
"I'm so sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going." A girl with really long hair apologized.
"Of course you weren't looking where you were going because you were on your scroll." A girl with short orange hair scolded the girl with long hair.
"I'm sorry."
"I'm sorry about my friend." The girl with short hair apologized while offering a hand to Neo. Neo took the girl's hand and allowed herself to be hoisted up.
"I'm Nora, sorry again about my friend." The short haired girl greeted.
"Sorry, my name is Hei."
Neo looked at the two girls with a confused look. She knows that she has seen these two somewhere before but she doesn't quite know where.
Hei was also looking at the Neo with a strange look before she leaned over and whispered something to Nora.
Nora's eyes widened before she brought her hands up and started making hand signals.
Neo quickly realized what the girl was doing, sign language. [What is your name?]
[It's Neo. You know sign language?]
[Yeah, Jauney taught me.] Nora signed with a smile.
Neo paused for a moment before she remembered who Nora was. She is on a team with Jaune. [Jaune, can you please take me to him?] Neo asked before grabbing one of Nora's hands.
Nora looked at Neo's sad face before she caved in. "O-okay, we'll take you to Jaune." With that Nora was off with Neo to the air docks.
Hei was left standing there confused. She had no idea what had just happened. All she knew was that Nora and the new girl were running back to the air docks. "Wait for me!" She yelled, running to catch up to them.
"Hurry up Jaune or you'll miss the movie!"
"I'll be there in a sec." Jaune answered back as he was trying to send a message through his scroll. The message didn't go through. He had been trying for the past week to get a hold of Neo but he wasn't having any luck. Every message he tried to send to her failed to send and when he went into the city to look for her he had absolutely no luck there either.
"Jaune!"
"I'm coming." Jaune closed his scroll and made his way into the living area and sat in the middle of the couch.
"Where is everybody?" Jaune asked.
"Yang is getting the movie, Weiss and Pyrrha are making popcorn, Coco and Velvet are getting the chips, Nora and Hei went out to get ice cream, Blake is taking your scroll and everyone else will be here soon." Ruby answered Jaune.
"Oh, okay the- Blake is doing what?"
"I'm taking your scroll Jaune." Blake said while holding Jaune's scroll.
"Blake? Give that back!" Jaune demanded as he reached for his scroll but Blake held it just out of his reach.
"No, you've been practically glued to this thing for the past week. We think you need a break." Blake said as she slid the scroll in between the couch cushions.
As Jaune was about to get up and get his scroll back, Ruby sat down on his lap. "Ruby, what're you doing?" Jaune asked nervously.
"For the past week you have ignored your friends and have gone off to the city. And when you get back you don't tell us why you went there in the first place. So for today you are going to stay here with your friends and we're going to watch bad movies all day." Ruby stated.
Jaune was about to push Ruby off of him until he felt something wrap around his right arm. When he looked to his right he saw Blake had grabbed hold of his arm. "I'm sorry Jaune but I'm with Ruby on this."
Jaune was glad that his left arm was mostly healed so he could try to free himself with that arm. That was until something else wrapped around his left arm. When he turned his head he saw that Weiss grabbed his left arm. "Weiss, not you too!"
"You are going nowhere, Arc." Weiss said as she tightened her grip.
"Weiss, why did you run off like that?" Pyrrha asked as she walked into the room with two big bowls of popcorn. She set down the two bowls and walked over to the couch and looked at Jaune.
"Please help me Pyrrha." Jaune pleaded. Pyrrha whispered something into Weiss' ear which caused her to look at Jaune with a sad face before she reluctantly let go of his arm. Jaune let out a sigh of relief but was interrupted half way through when Pyrrha sat beside him and took hold of his arm.
"Oh come on!"
"I'm sorry Jaune." Pyrrha apologized.
Jaune tried to get his arms free one more time when he felt someone else wrap their arms over his shoulders. "Aw come on Arc, don't you like the idea of being surrounded by five beautiful ladies?" A female voice teased from behind him.
"You too Coco?" Jaune asked sounding really unamused.
"What's wrong, not happy to see me?"
"Oh no, I'm very happy to see you." Jaune said sarcastically.
"You still mad about that thing?"
"Yes."
"What are you two talking about?" Ruby asked.
Jaune started to blush while Coco had a wicked grin on her face. "Well, you see Ruby..." Coco began but she was interrupted by shouting that was coming from down the hall.
"W-wait Yang! No punchy no punchy NO PUNCHY! * thwack*" A figure was sent flying by the door.
Everyone in the living area quickly went out to see what was going on. Yang stood in the hallway with her hair glowing and her eyes red in front of Nora who had a small figure in all brown standing behind her. The small figure noticed the small group and made a mad dash towards it.
"Oh no you don't!" Yang breathed angrily before chasing after the figure.
Jaune recognized who was running towards him and he ran towards the figure. When they met he held the figure close to him. Yang stopped her chase and just stared at the two.
"Jaune?" Yang asked sounding confused.
Everyone gathered around Jaune and the figure. Jaune slowly pulled the hood back to reveal a girl with a mix of pink and brown hair. The RWB of RWBY jumped back surprised.
"What is she doing here?!" Blake was the first to ask.
"Wasn't she the girl who worked for Torchwick?" Weiss asked.
"Torchwick? You mean Roman Torchwick?" Pyrrha asked shocked.
"Jaune, what's going on?" Ruby asked sounding confused.
Jaune didn't answer. He just held Neo close.
"Hey, she asked you a question!" Yang practically yelled as she grabbed Jaune's shoulder and turned him to face her. As soon as she saw his face her eyes reverted back to their lilac color and her hair stopped glowing.
"Come on, we need to talk to the head master." Jaune said as he picked up Neo and made his way to the headmaster's office.
Everyone was left in the hallway speechless. Ruby was going to go with Jaune until Yang stopped her. "I'd just let him go Ruby." Yang told Ruby.
Ozpin sat at his desk with signature mug in hand. Across from him sat Jaune arc and a small girl who was introduced as Neo. Ozpin eyed the girl which made her shift uncomfortably in her seat.
"Professor Ozpin I-"
"Silence, Mr. Arc." Ozpin interrupted Jaune as he kept his eyes on the girl.
It remained silent for another minute until Ozpin spoke. "Alright."
"Alright?" Jaune asked.
"She can stay here at Beacon, Mr. Arc."
"That's gre-"
"Under a few conditions."
"What're the conditions?"
"She will have to stay in the JNPR dorm which you will have to discuss with your team, we have to confiscate her weapon and she must wear these." Ozpin placed a pair of high tec black bracelets on the desk.
"What're the bracelets for, professor?" Jaune asked examining the bracelets.
"They are aura limiters. She must wear them if she wishes to stay here." Ozpin said as he took a sip from his mug.
Neo looked at Jaune nervously before nodding her head. Jaune understood and latched the bracelets onto her wrists. She jumped a little once both bracelets were on and she could feel her aura slowly being drained.
"You should get back to your dorm and explain the situation fully to your team."
With that Jaune escorted Neo out of the Headmaster's office and back to his dorm.
Jaune and Neo entered JNPR's dorm room and were greeted by the remaining members of JNPR (NPR) and team RWBY. Team RWBY collectively glared at Neo while NPR looked at their leader confused.
"Jaune, what's going on?" Pyrrha asked.
"Well, um-" Jaune went on to give a lengthy explanation of how he met Neo and how Torchwick asked him to take care of her.
"So that was you in here last week?!" Ruby asked.
Neo nodded.
"So that time you went missing was when you talked to Torchwick?" Yang asked.
Jaune nodded.
"And you want her to stay here, with us?" Pyrrha asked.
Jaune and Neo nodded.
Everyone was silent. Exchanging glances between each other for a few moments.
"Jaune, I-" Pyrrha started but stopped when she looked at Neo's sad face. Pyrrha could see that Neo hasn't eaten or slept well in days and that she looked miserable.
"Ren, what do you think?" Pyrrha asked Ren.
"I don't see why she couldn't stay with us for a little while." Ren answered giving Neo a smile which she returned.
"Nora?" Pyrrha asked looking at Nora.
"Of course she can stay. It will be like a sleepover!" Nora answered excitedly.
Pyrrha sighed. "Oh alright, she can stay with us for a little bit."
Neo smiled and hugged Pyrrha thanking her. She then proceeded to hug Ren and then Nora. She then ended with hugging Jaune and planting a kiss on his cheek.
Ren and Nora could have sworn that they felt five angry auras flare up in the room at the same time. It sent chills down their spines.
RWBY left the room all giving forced smiles and slamming the door behind them. "Are they okay?" Jaune asked confused still holding Neo.
"Oh Jaune, if only you knew." Ren answered and Nora giggled.
Jaune was still confused and looked to Pyrrha for an answer only to find that she wasn't there. "Where'd Pyrrha go?"
Ren and Nora just shrugged.
Jaune set Neo down. "You hungry?"
Neo nodded with a smile and grabbed Jaune's hand to lead him out of the room. As the door closed, Ren and Nora stared at each other.
"We should make sure those two are safe from RWBY and Pyrrha." Ren said.
"Okie dokie."
I have a confession. I have a weakness for Jaune x Harem. But, this is a Jaune x Neo story and it will stay that way.
This also isn't my OTP. But I still really like this pairing.
In case some don't know know, a chinchilla looks kinda like a rabbit with a squirrel tail.
One question. Would anyone be interested in a Jaune x Coco story?