Life Is Better With Blondes
I'm alive, you don't need to keep messaging me to update, I have a life you know. I'd probably update more if I weren't constantly looking for a job.
Chapter 1:
For Jaune, time travel was a new experience. He was prepared for any eventuality. What he was not prepared was for him to get motion sickness from the ordeal.
"BLARG!" Jaune heaved into the closest trash can he could find. After a few moments he stopped and looked rather annoyed as he wiped his mouth. "Great, and we're back to this again. She is never going to let me live this down..." He was really tired of being called Vomit Boy. Well he really couldn't complain. There were nicknames he had for her after all.
Jaune looked at his surroundings. He was in downtown Vale. He couldn't help but marvel at how...pristine it looked. He really was in the past. Now if only he could remember why he was in down town Vale...Oh right! Last moment registration to Beacon! He looked into his pack and saw the forged documents...Oh he wouldn't need these this time. He used these to bi-pass a lot of the tests and get instant admitted. But as he continued to walk down the street to the Registration Office, he could get a feel of how different his body was now and how it was before the rewind.
'I'm not as bulky as before. I'm not as strong either, and...my Aura is still locked. BUT, what I do have is knowledge and speed, and various combat styles. I got this.'
One hour later, Jaune was admitted into Beacon with the highest scores seen in a late entry. Jaune tried to keep his excitement in check as he left the office with high hopes. Things will be different, he was confident that they would. Now that was taken care of, what was next on his agenda? Should he go see Hei? Or should he wait for Yang to pop up?
His thoughts were interrupted as he bumped into someone. He fell back on his ass, still tired from the combat examination.
"Oh, I'm sorry!" A very familiar voice said as the person he bumped into turned around. She gasped, covering her mouth with her hands. "Jaune?"
"Pyrrha?" He questioned slightly afraid. She remembered him? Oh there was something wrong, something very wrong. He was unceremoniously hoisted up by an angry Pyrrha Nikos. Pyrrha Nikos NEVER got angry. People who were watching fled. "Mercy?"
"Not until you explain what happened." She replied.
Jaune stared at her before dislodging himself from her iron grip. "I-I have some conjectures, but I won't know for sure until we see Yang... Come on I know a place." He said leading before walking down the street. He knew a place in Vale where they could talk.
"Yang?" Pyrrha questioned confused. What did Yang had to do with anything.
"You'll see." He replied. Hopefully Yang would be there already.
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"So Yang, why are we breaking into Uncle Qrow's apartment." Ruby paused for a moment. "Again."
"Well we know Uncle Qrow isn't going to be here for a while so it's a perfect base of operations to discuss whats going on and my partner knows about this place too so its a win-win."
"Partner? Blake is here too?" Ruby asked happily.
Yang opened the door to the apartment. "Nope. And why did you sound way too happy about Blake? Got a thing for the kitty cat?" Yang asked with a teasing grin as she entered.
"N-No!" Ruby denied with a full blush on her face as she followed her sister. "It's just, I'm so used to you calling her your partner." She watched as Yang moved around the apartment with a purpose, then she remembered. Uncle Qrow usually bugged his place, just in-case of robbers or Yang. She remembered an incident where Yang brought a boy over for some...heavy petting. Uncle Qrow was not amused.
"And...done! No more bugs. Now we got to wait until my partner joins us."
"So who is your partner if its not Blake?" Ruby asked curiously as she sat on the couch. "Is it me or is this couch lumpier than usual?"
Yang eyed the couch and motioned Ruby to move off it before lifting the cushion she was sitting on. "Ah sneaky, sneaky Uncle." Another listening device. A rather big one, it actually displaced the cushion. "Good job Ruby, your soft bottom saved the day!"
Ruby sputtered as her face turned red once more. "My butt isn't soft!" The sound of someone snorting caused her to turn to the door to see..."Jaune?! Pyrrha?!"
"You know, seeing Crater-face embarrassed over her butt is hilarious." Jaune piped up as Pyrrha giggled a little.
"Jaune!" Yang bounded over to him and wrapped her arms around her lover. "Are you alright? You didn't vomit did you? Anything missing?" She rattled off surprising Ruby and Pyrrha.
Jaune wrapped his arms around Yang and petted her head, touching her hair incidentally, surprising Ruby and Pyrrha further"Yang I'm fine, I didn't vomit, and nothing is missing. I just ran a few errands and ran into Pyrrha who remembers."
"Hello?" Pyrrha asked confused. "Why are you hugging Jaune like that?"
"Why is Jaune touching your hair and not dying?!" Ruby demanded to know.
"Why wouldn't I hug him and let him touch my hair. He's my husband after all." Yang announced with a grin. This was too much for Pyrrha as she fainted on the spot, Ruby not too far behind. "Was it something I said?" she asked Jaune with a confused look.
"A little too soon dear." Jaune soothed placing a soft kiss on her lips. "Let's get settled and Pyrrha off the floor, we have much to discuss."
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Once Pyrrha was settled on a chair and Ruby was laid down on the couch, the couple moved to the kitchen where they sat at the small dining table Qrow owned. "So Jaune. Level with me, why does Pyrrha and Ruby remember?" Yang asked as she took a sip of the tea she prepared. It felt good to be young again and the world whole, but she couldn't help but to fall back into old habits of domestication. She wasn't the wild party girl most painted her to be, not anymore. Losing most of the people she loved to war did that to her.
Jaune took a sip of his own tea, quietly ruminating over the latest conundrum that presented the duo. "I think..." he paused as he tried to gather his thoughts. "It's our Aura."
"Our Aura?" She echoed confused.
"Yeah." He placed his cup down, and tapped the rim of the cup with his finger gently. "Pyrrha unlocked my Aura correct? Well I suppose she was, in a way, still connected to me, even after death. The same could be said about you and Ruby."
"Yeah I did unlock her Aura. Shortly after I unlocked my own and my Semblance." Yang had unlocked her Aura and Semblance roughly at the same time when she at a young age saw her sister being picked on. She wasn't going to stand by and let her baby sister get hurt, not after she nearly got her killed herself. Yang snapped that day; mentally and the boy's wrist who was picking on Ruby. He learned never to do that again. "But what about the person who unlocked Pyrrha's Aura?"
"I don't know. I never really asked her to be honest. And thankfully, my Aura came unlocked so there's no need to do that again." He picked up the cup and took another sip. "Hopefully the issue happens only on one tier. Though now that I'm thinking about it, there may be anomalies with our Aura so we need to be careful with how we handle things."
"You got it general!" She said mock saluting him while winking and sticking her tongue out.
"I'm not the General I used to be." Jaune rebuked with a grin, glancing at his body. "I'm all small and noodle-like."
"Hmm..." Yang vocalized. Jaune stiffened as he felt her foot running up his leg teasing him. "Did I ever tell you I like noodles."
"Yang, beloved." He vocalized, his throat dry. "As much as I'd love to give our old bodies a much needed stress test, need I remind you that we're in your Uncle's house and your sister and Pyrrha are in the other room?"
"Oh I know." Yang said with a grin. "I just wanted to see your reaction love. I know there's a time and place, and that's tonight at your hotel room."
Jaune simply finished his tea and stood up. "I think I'll check on the others." He quickly got out before heading into the living room.
Yang giggled. "Still got it." she said to herself before a grin settled on her face. This was going to be fun.
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"So if I understand correctly, you two have been married for..." Pyrrha began quietly.
"A little under Thirty years." Jaune explained with his arm around Yang's shoulder. "We never go to fully appreciate our marriage though as the war continued for quite awhile."
"B-But I thought the war ended when..." Ruby went quiet both shocked and upset. "You mean to tell me I sacrificed myself for nothing?" Tears began to well up in her eyes.
"No." Jaune shook his head. "You stopped the first war, you stopped Cinder from winning. But we weren't counting on was the sheer amount of White Fang members to be left after Adam died. They quickly rallied against us, calling themselves "The Neo White Fang"."
"The NWF didn't waste time in attacking the horribly weakened Kingdoms and soon there wasn't a safe place for humankind or human sympathizers." Yang continued. She was oddly subdued. "First Blake and Sun died. And then Ren...Pyrrha." Pyrrha nodded, remembering this as well. "Nora soon followed, literally overcharging her semblance to become the Goddess of Lightning. She laid waste to the NWF but that too was futile as they started to use mutated Grimm as weapons."
"Soon it was a handful of huntsmen and huntresses left...Yang and I pooled them together to form the Resistance. If it weren't for the help of Velvet, Cardin, and Weiss, things would've gotten much worse."
"I see..." Pyrrha was quiet and Jaune knew why. Pyrrha loved him and a part of him felt the same way, but it was a small part. His heart and soul belonged to Yang however.
"Well...we got a second chance right?" Ruby piped up. "Well let's not waste it here! Let's go after Cinder now!"
"That'd be stupid." Jaune put bluntly. "For one, we don't know where she is, and as we are now, we might have our knowledge of the future and our fighting styles, but our bodies aren't acclimated to moving like that. I found that out the hard way."
"So whats the plan?" Pyrrha questioned. She'd deal with her feelings later. Saving the world came first.
"We just have to deal with Beacon until the time is right. There are a lot of people we need to save and not enough time." Yang explained.
"We train harder than we did than the first time. We get our skills back and once Cinder shows her admittedly pretty and evil face, we deck her in the snoz."
Ruby snorted. "I'm sorry...what?"
"It's what Lark would've wanted!" Jaune defended loudly.
"It's okay dear, you can deck her in the snoz when the time comes." Yang soothed her husband. "But don't call the evil bitch pretty."
"Yes dear."
Ruby sighed. Why did she feel like this was going to be harder than they make it sound? Well as long as they stayed focus, everything would be okay right?
End of Chapter 01