Jaune pulled himself from the mess that was his bed with a loud yawn, and started looking around the room trying to find his scroll. After a short moment he found it tangled in the covers as his legs still were. "...Mmm, 10 am is a much better sight then 10 pm..." He smiled and fully untangled himself from the covers tossing them back onto the bed as he stretched. Taking a quick note he found that he was out of his blazer that he fell asleep in the night before. "Pyrrha must have taken it off me when she came back in..." Reaching a hand up he started to press on his still bandaged chest. A lack of pain shooting throughout his body made him smile. 'Perfect my aura did kick in last night. So I should be able to do some light training today.' He slowly started to remove the bandages from his chest as he went for the bathroom to take a quick shower. After a few minutes he returned from the bathroom moving over to the closet and grabbing his training gear. "I'm going to have to go to Goodwitch to get a new uniform too... Just great..." He sighed as he looked to the destroyed blazer that was hung over the desk chair on Ren and his side of the room. Oh he just couldn't wait to sit through that lecture too.

Blinking something caught his eye on the desk it self. Walking over he spotted a small note left behind by Pyrrha.

Hey Jaune,

We heard from the nurse how bad your injuries were,

so Me and Nora are out getting you some medicine. Please stay in bed, you need to rest

Pyrrha

P.S. This one is Nora, we took the money for it from your wallet.

you can thank us later boss man 3

Jaune just stared at the last part with a twitching eye. The little red-head would take his money to get it, probably figuring he would be less inclined to deny taking it. Which she wouldn't of been wrong... If he actually still needed it that is. "Whatever, I'm getting breakfast and then off too training..." He shook his head smiling slightly at the two's note as he left.

"I fail to see why we have to make this our problem..." Weiss sighed for what seemed to be the thousandth time this morning as she and her team sat in the cafeteria. This was mostly due to the sisters of her team constantly bothering her and Blake about the blonde leader of JNPR.

"I have to agree with Weiss on this one. We have more important things to worry about right now." A part of Blake couldn't understand how she was taking Weiss' side, but for once she had a fair point about this. Besides finding out and stopping whatever the White Fang was planning should be their priority at the moment. It wasn't that she didn't like Jaune, she barely knew the guy after all, but she was sure he and his team could handle whatever may be going on at the moment.

Ruby frowned at the pair of them. "Come on guys... Jaune's our friend and if Yang's right that he's being bullied then we should help him."

"What even makes you so sure he's lying about how he got hurt? For all we know he really was just in a training accident with the droids." Weiss sipped her coffee looking directly to Yang who had been the main cause for the conversation. Ruby may have started it, but that was only because she had brought it up to her.

Yang raised an eyebrow at the heiress. "You mean besides the fact that you and I both know the bots can't go that far? Pyrrha told us how bad his injuries were. Four cracked ribs and a possible concussion. They still don't know where the burns on his hands came from either." She saw Weiss and Blake's eyes widen slightly, they must not of known how bad it was. "And besides that he was in his school uniform. Now I don't think even he's clumsy enough to go training in that." She sighed crossing her arms. She really hated seeing people get bullied. Especially people she actually liked. Jaune was a good guy, a bit weak for her taste, but he had a good heart. Not to mention he was Ruby's first friend here at Beacon. Through him, her baby sister was able to come out of her shell and make a ton of friends. That in Yang's opinion basically made the guy family. And Yang protected her family.

"Yang."

The voice of her partner snapped the blonde out of her thoughts as she looked up to Blake. "Yeah Blake?" She noted that the cat Faunus wasn't looking at her. More in the direction of the entrance of the cafeteria.

"You'd say that the injuries Jaune had would cause him to have trouble moving... Right?" Blake's tone seemed to be a mix of confusion and a bit of worry.

"Well yeah, I was surprised he could even make it back from the infirmary without calling for some help... Why?"

Blake pointed in the direction she was looking. "Because, I just saw him walking out of the building..."

"What!?" Ruby shot up ready to run after him. He shouldn't be up and moving around yet, he needed to take the time to heal before he got any worse. She made her move to run after him but a hand grabbed her arm stopping her.

"Now hold on just a moment..." It was Weiss that had grabbed onto Ruby's arm and leveled a small glare at Yang to stop her from doing the same. "Look, we don't know what's going on and I know the both of you are worried. But he may be up to something... I doubt I can convince you to just leave him be." She paused slightly due to the pair's glares. "So I say we just follow him, and make sure he doesn't do anything... More foolish then he already has." Seeing them nod after a few seconds she let go of Ruby and they all stood up. Weiss herself couldn't believe that she was going to be wasting her morning on the blonde idiot, but at least it would stop the two from complaining.

Jaune smiled as he rubbed his full stomach. Nothing like a good meal before training, now he knew he would have the energy to burn as he made his way to the training hall. His plan for the day was simple. First he'd start off by actually working with the droids this time. Run a couple speed trials before moving into physical for the rest of the time and then simply rest for the remainder of the day. He figured he should have enough time to get his training done before Pyrrha and Nora got back from Vale. Though he was sure he would get an ear full when they found out he left, but oh well wouldn't be the first time.

After a short walk he found himself in the training hall and started to do some stretches before he got to his actual work. Hiding up in the stands however he had yet to notice a group of four that were watching him curiously as he stretched.

"What's he wearing Yang?" Ruby had let her curiosity override her worry for the moment as they watched Jaune stretch. Though the four did involuntarily cringe anytime he did anything that required the movement of his chest. None seeming to notice that Jaune wasn't doing the same.

"It looks like a Gi." Blake had decided to answer for Yang, after noting the look of confusion on the blonde's face. The others looked at her blinking, causing her to sigh. "A Gi is a type of clothing that people who practice Martial Arts usually wear, It's very loose fitting and allows for greater movement while fighting..."

"So does that mean Jaune knows Martial Arts?" Ruby blinked, the thought of Jaune knowing how to fight like that was a bit of a weird one. When she had met the guy he didn't seem to be all that great in a fight. Sure as time went on his training with Pyrrha had helped, but him knowing how to do things like in the old kung fu movies that she and Yang would watch with their dad. It just didn't seem to fit.

But the thought didn't seem as far fetched now as the four looked back down to the arena area where Jaune was expertly running through his katas. Each movement seemed to flow into the next. From simple kicks, into arm thrusts, followed by a spinning ax kick. To them it was like watching a dance that they couldn't help be stare in slight awe of, mostly due to the one preforming it.

"I thought you said he had cracked ribs...!" Weiss whisper yelled at Yang. Forget the fact that the idiot was doing complicated martial arts forms that could compare to the perfection of her own fencing style. How could he be doing them in the condition he was supposedly in.

Yang pulled her own dumbstruck stare away from Jaune to the angry Heiress. "I-I... I mean he was...! Ruby barely touched him and he almost killed over..." She looked to her sister who was nodding quickly. "I don't know how he's doing this..."

"Girls, we have another problem..." Blake whispered, catching the three's attention as she pointed down into the arena.

Down below they watched as Sun and Neptune walked into the arena and they saw Sun laughing and shaking his head. They were too far away to actually hear what was being said though. With a quick look they moved quietly to get to a better hearing spot. They had to move directly above the three in the stands to finally hear them.

"-you guys are so lucky with that man. God I'm still sore from last night..." They heard Sun finish as he rolled his shoulder.

Jaune chuckled and shrugged. "You shouldn't let yourself get to jealous. Yeah it can be a great for when your really banged up, or worse. But it doesn't always mean it's gonna kick in... I honestly got lucky my aura decided to cooperate while I was sleeping, or I'd still be in a bed right now." It wasn't that he hated the aura healing that being an Adept granted him, not even close. What he did hate though was that it was completely random after enough damage was done. It honestly could have taken days for him it to finally heal him so it wasn't something any Adept relied on. They weren't invincible after all.

"Still man." Neptune walked forward offering out his fist. "We owe you big for coming out to save our butts from the fire. Don't think we would of come out of that alive if you hadn't shown up." He smirked as Jaune returned the fist bump offering a "No sweat, man" in return.

"No sweat! Are you kidding!" Sun jumped in looking shocked. "Dude, your entrance alone took out half of those White Fang goons! Not to mention your awesome fight with the general guy!" With that he went into reenacting the fight as both Jaune and Neptune laughed at his antics.

Back in the stands a different reaction was taking place as the girls stared at the three boys with nothing beyond pure shock and horror.

"Did...did they say they almost died...?" Weiss looked to the others shaking slightly. Yeah they didn't know the guys very well, even Blake who spent an entire weekend with Sun still barely knew him. But that didn't mean they would want to see them hurt. The way Sun was talking, they had to be exaggerating right?

"They only said that they got chucked over the traffic barrier..." Yang said softly as she tried her best to listen to Sun's retelling of the fight. "Th-they just couldn't get back to us in time...right...?"

Ruby for her part was clutching her hood over top of her head, as if trying to drown out the story by doing so. No, she did not almost lead her friends into their deaths... She couldn't have... She started to shake slightly until she felt a pair of arms wrap around her and the soft voice of Blake telling her to calm down.

Blake couldn't believe what she was hearing from the boys as she held onto her team leader. She couldn't find it in herself to be honestly mad at them. If what they were saying was true then Jaune would know this was how they would have felt, had they found out. Jaune knew it would devastate Ruby the most. She was starting to curse following the blonde in the first place now as she unconsciously held Ruby closer. She wanted to be mad that they were even talking about it, but the boys had no idea they were even up here.

"Really, you guys did more then you think." Jaune stated interrupting Sun and catching Blake's attention again. "If you guys hadn't of caused that Tous guy to waste so much of his energy with your hit and run tactic after I got sent flying, I doubt I would have been able to take the guy at all. Thanks to the lack of sleep the night before and Nora keeping me up all day yesterday, I didn't even have a quarter of my normal energy store." He shrugged as he walked over to a wall panel, pulling up a computer interface. "Hell, just catching and redirecting that massive ki blast took more then half of what I had left."

"Blake..." Came the struggling between hurt and angry voice of Weiss, catching the black haired girls attention. "Who...is Tous...?" She was glaring at Blake, but she knew it wasn't meant for her.

The question caused Blake to hold the whimpering Ruby closer to her. "H-he's one of the elites of the White Fang... A small group that only take orders from the leader..." Great she was the one shaking now. "I-I never met any of the generals during my time in the White Fang, and from what I have heard about them...I never wanted too. The way others spoke about them... It was like they were describing actual monsters..." She looked up to their shocked faces. "I...don't even know how they could be alive... If they faced a general for real..."

Weiss and Yang, having recently come back to herself, stared at Blake in silent shock. If Blake was feeling this scare of the man, he couldn't be anything but powerful. And Jaune, Sun, and Neptune had not only fought this guy... But came out of it alive. Further thought on that revelation was ground to a halt as the four were scared back to the world by the sound of gunfire. Looking down quickly the four knew the day wasn't going to be getting any easier.

Down in the arena Jaune was busy dodging the fire of mobile turret drones. They watched as he weaved his way between the gunfire. Each shot seemed to be a near miss, but he showed no signs of being worried as he started talking to Sun and Neptune again.

"To be honest the guy still bugs me!" He called out jumping back and using one of the drones as a spring board, leaving it to be shot by the others.

Neptune and Sun were standing on the stage to keep out of the way of the actual gunfire. "How so man?" Sun called out as they watched. Neither one could understand why he wanted live rounds for his speed trials, but who were they to judge.

Jaune stood staring down a small group of drones that had seemly cornered him. He heard their turrets start to spin and smirked. Just as the gun let loose a hail of bullets, none hearing the scared gasps of the girls in the stands, Jaune disappeared in a burst of speed, only to reappear behind one of the drones that was floating in the air and kicking it with a solid round house sending it smashing into the wall that was at his back before.

"Something about his energy was just off. It felt like he was putting more into it then was necessary to pull off what he was doing." Jaune was now sitting perched on one of the drones as it floated around. As the other drones began to close in he held up a finger and with quick blasts from it started to bring them down. "I honestly don't think he was an Adept at all." Looking over to the two he couldn't help but laugh at their confused faces.

"Your kidding right?" Sun asked incredulously as he watched Jaune jump off the last drone shooting it down as well. Before simply floating over to them in a sitting position. "He clearly could do everything you could do. For god sake he fired a giant energy beam at us... If he's not an Adept than what else could he be?"

Jaune sat there floating as he thought. "I think he may have just been a guy that was taught how to use his Ki..." He looked up to the two blinking at their looks of shock and confusion. "What?"

Neptune shook himself out of his shock and stared at the blonde. "But I thought only Adepts could use Ki, your saying people can be taught how to use it too?"

"Well yeah, it's a fundamental part of Martial Arts itself. And everything that's alive has a source of ki. Humans, Faunus, animals, plants, even the Grimm have a source of Ki. It's life energy after all. The biggest difference between an Adept and a normal person when it comes to using it, is that we innately know how to draw on the power." He did a slight spin in the air before finally settling on his feet. "Its just learning how to better control it that we have to refine first. Where as for a person like you or Sun, it takes first finding and unleashing the power, and then a constant learning of control. A none Adept needs to keep the up most concentration on the use of their ki or they will end up pulling on to much, wasting more energy then needed. Which is what that Tous guy was doing... I think somebody taught him how to fight like that..."

Back in the stands three of the girls were at a loss for words. Jaune, the dunce, the fool, the goof had just been...been flying and shooting beams from his finger tips. They didn't know what to think from what they saw. People shouldn't be able to do what he had just done. No it just wasn't possible.

"He...he's a..."

They looked back to Weiss, who had fallen onto one of the seats of the stands. She was stammering as her eyes were glued to the blonde boy. Ruby wiggled her way out of Blake's arms and moved over to Weiss. She gently pulled on the heiress' sleeve, causing the girl to jump and look at Ruby quickly.

"Weiss, are you okay...?"

She just stared at Ruby for what seemed like forever. As the seconds past she could feel her features turn to one of anger. Quickly she stood clenching her hands into fists. "I'm going down there." She started to stomp towards the stairs.

Ruby's eyes widened as she jumped at Weiss to stop her. "No! We don't know what's going on! Please we have to wait."

"Don't know what's going on!? I know exactly what's going on! We've been lied to again! And I for one am sick of it." She pulled away from Ruby and started down to the arena. "ARC!"

With the loud yell of his name Jaune spun around quickly.

Slap!

Only to be on the receiving end of a vicious slap of one Schnee heiress. With the sting on his face he stared at the far wall to his right. After a second he turned his head to look at the furious heiress as she glared up at him. He hadn't seen her face that red before. Great, it was safe to say that he was going to die today. 'Starting to wish I never came to this school...' He then was forced to back up as he found a finger nearly jabbed into his skull.

"How dare you! How dare try to call us your friends as you lie to our faces day in and day out!" She panted ready to yell at him more, ready to tear the fool apart for everything he had just put her, them, through. She made a quick look to the other two boys glaring. "And I'll get to you two later." Seeing them shrink back she returned her attention to the blonde boy before her.

Jaune could only stare at the girl that was fuming before him, no emotion showed on his face, though on the inside he was currently beating himself to a bloody pulp for not actively using his senses again. Asking him later he would probably tell you he wasn't sure what caused him to say what he said next, but he was sure that multiple previous snide comments at him and the mere act of her just not wanting him around was a part of it.

"I'm sorry, I wasn't under the impression we were friends, Weiss."

Weiss' eyes widened as she stumbled back a bit. She hadn't been expecting such a cold response from him. Sure she didn't like the guy in the way that he seemed to want her too, but that didn't mean she didn't see him as at least an acquaintance. "I-I..." The statement itself had thrown off her anger, she wasn't quite sure how to advance from here. Fortunately she wasn't actually alone.

"B-but we are your friends, Jaune..." Came the soft and sniffle filled voice of Ruby Rose, causing Weiss to looked between the two. "Don't you know that...?" Weiss could see her shaking like she going to cry again, with it she felt a bit of renewed vigor and was ready to turn on the blonde again to defend her leader. But she didn't get the chance, in an instant she saw Jaune's features soften and he moved past her quickly. She watched in shock as Jaune pulled the younger girl into a soft hug that said girl returned burying her face in his chest.

"Hey come on now... Of course I know we're friends Rubes..." He smiled softly petting the younger girls head as he looked over to see both Blake and Yang walking over to them as well. "You were the first person I met here remember?" He smiled softly down to her as she looked up to him with tear filled eyes. "It's just that even I had my secrets... Ones that I didn't want people to know, because I didn't know how they would react..." He poked her forehead. "Kind of like how you didn't want to be seen as special, Crater Face." He was able to smile a bit brighter as he heard her weakly giggle at the return of her nickname.

"And what exactly is that secret Jaune?" Blake had walked over, she wasn't really one to cast stones when it came to secrets, but this felt like it needed to be said.

Jaune made a move to answer her but another beat him too it. "He's an Adept. That's what it is." He blinked looking back to Weiss raising an eyebrow as she glared at him.

"I'm sorry, a what?" Yang chimed in giving and incredulous look at the boy.

With a sigh he picked Ruby off the ground slightly, he could tell the red-head wasn't going to be letting him go anytime soon, and made his way to the stage. "Come on girls, it's story time." The sad part is he was gonna have to tell this story twice now.

And another chapter is kicked in the pants and sent out to dance.

What...? Never mind forget what I just wrote...

Anyway so I wanted to make one thing clear about Jaune's action near the end. He doesn't think he and Weiss aren't friends because she rejects him all the time. It's because when he's just hanging around with Ruby and Yang, she treats him like an annoyance even when he isn't talking to her at all. It gives him the impression that she just tolerates him.

And there isn't going to be some turn around with them suddenly loving and getting together. Making up and becoming friends yes, but not lovers. I haven't decided on the final pairing but this one isn't going to be a Jaune/Weiss pairing, as much as I do love the ship