Restoring the Family Honor
Chapter 6; I Promised Way too Much for this Chapter (Part 2)
The real reason Jaune never trained to be a hunter is that he was busy fighting the temptation to be a playboy. It's Jaune vs. his imagined Harem. AU, Some crack.
Disclaimer; I don't own RWBY and this is total AU. Enjoy the ride, check author's note at the end for concerns, and kindly leave a review.
This is told primarily from Jaune's perspective, and he is not the most reliable narrator. Other perspectives will likely be equally unreliable. No one knows what is in another's heart or mind, and guessing tends to be wrong.
-Combat Class-
Jaune Arc was a man of multiple talents. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of Grimm and the weapons used to fight them. He could coordinate armies flawlessly. He could pinpoint a weakness in his enemies guard, and predict how they would move and attack from nothing but the way they held themselves. His soul was so strong and controlled that he could shatter steel with it. He was adept in dust mixing and use, seduction, stealth, infiltration, assassination, wrestling and three types of unarmed combat, medicine, a god of massage massage and cooking, and and could use every vehicle known to humans and faunus as well as a few that weren't as well. He should have been able to decimate anyone who was placed against him now that his aura was unlocked. And yet, there he sat in his first combat class dreading being picked.
How can this be? How, in ten years of personal training from a famous hunter, did the actual, kinesthetic wielding of weapons never come up once?
Glynda Goodwitch stared at him as if she knew his combat inadequacy. "History, strategy, dust use… these will help you thrive, but it is your combat ability that will decide whether you live or die as a hunter. It is essential that every one of you excel in this course. We will start out with an exhibition match between… Jaune Arc and Ruby Rose." The two teammates went to change with vastly varying levels of excitement. Far too quickly, the they were facing off against each other in center stage. "The rules are simple, the match is won when one student drops below 15% aura, is knocked out of the ring, or is otherwise unable to continue."
Jaune took a moment to study his opponent. "Ruby is a prodigy, and is here two years early. Her skills with a scythe are impressive, but she lacks life experience compared to her combat skills. I can't match her speed, her weapon has much greater range than mine, and is more versatile with its different forms. I can outlast her or overpower her if need be. However, I can't even touch her if I fight straight-up, so I have to control the pace, predict her moves, and lead her into a trap. First, I need to lure her into melee combat."
Before Glynda even called to begin, Jaune was already enacting his plan. He held out his shield in front of him with his sword hanging limply at his side. The stance would provide adequate defense against ranged attacks, but would fall apart up close. At least, if it wasn't part of his plan.
Ruby took the bait and dashed forward. Her eyes focused on his exposed right leg, planning to sweep it out from under him. Instead, he forced himself up and forward, as if he was going to drive his knee into the smaller girl's chin.
She disappeared in a trail of rose petals, and reappeared behind him, with her scythe poised to slam him to the ground. He grabbed the shaft, and used the momentum to pull himself toward the crimson reaper. He expected her to release the scythe, instead she kept it in a death-grip, and ate the hit. After the moment passed, he was unprepared when they landed, and she ended up straddling him.
Jaune was about to buck his hips, or otherwise try to force her off, but he saw the smoldering rage in Yang's eyes. Glynda's grade be damned, he didn't wat him teammate mad at him. "Umm, Ruby, could you get off before your sister decides that she needs to hurt me?"
The girl tilted her head like a confused puppy. "Why would she think that? It was sparring. You're supposed to try to hurt me."
"… You have to be faking. I guess I'll have to fight fire with fire." "Well, I guess you've got me beat, so I'm at your mercy, Ruby. I'm yours to do whatever you want~"
The girl's eye lit up and her mouth flashed a leer so quickly that it might have been imagined. "That's perfect! Are you free to go to Patch this weekend? Daddy's lonely, so I thought he would feel better if he had a son."
"…You want your Dad to gain a son… Aren't you scared he'll take it as losing a daughter?"
"Loosing a daughter? I'm not going anywhere. I'm gunna' be the best huntress ever!"
"… Ruby, there's this thing called marriage…"
"Is that a Mommy-Daddy thing?" That had to be a smirk she was hiding; she was obviously just trying to tempt him with sexy, sexy innocence.
"…Yes Ruby, Yes, it is. Along with what we're doing, which is why your sister is coming over here to castrate me." Jaune gave an internal sigh at the clueless look on the girl's face. He had to play along with her game or Yang would outright kill him for corrupting her sister. "She's going to take away my 'daddy parts."
"No, I need those to give Dad grandchildren!" Of course Yang was just within earshot for the end of this extremely awkward conversation.
The blonde woman pulled her sister away from her victim, and the last thought that Jaune had before darkness closed on him was despair that he hadn't even managed to touch his opponent's aura.
-Weiss-
Weiss was quite angry at one Jaune Arc. This is not a new state, but the cause was unusual. He got one good hit on that Ruby child and took her down to three quarters aura, then stopped when she landed on him. He could have escaped and continued fighting, but the pervert obviously chose to lay there to enjoy it. The unnatural way her aura refilled was proof that the child had already sucked something from him, since his semblance was refilling her. He got what she deserved when the violent older sister got involved.
It just wasn't fair! She had dibs! And the red girl was stealing her look too; all short and modest curves. That is to say, small chested. Yes, she was equal to a girl two years her junior.
It wasn't fair! Winter had a killer body! Didn't she get the same genes? Was it the curse of being the middle child?
Removing her head from her myriad of anxieties, she turned her attention to the present. After Yang beat Jaune to unconsciousness, Glynda forced her to take Jaune to the infirmary, and Weiss was sent along to ensure that no further harm came to the boy. For whatever reason, the teacher didn't stop the assault until the boy was in the red. Her eyes were looking for something, but apparently didn't find it. Instead the teacher left to have a talk with the young reaper, and Jaune was left in the care of two girls that were unhappy with him.
But even if they were mad at him, the two girls were still rather hesitant to leave him with his craziest sister. Desperate to delay things for just a minute longer, Weiss tried to strike up a conversation. "As much as I agree with the sentiment, what made you decide that Jaune deserved this?" She gestured vaguely at the limp body riding on the blonde girl's shoulders.
She brought the boy down to her arms and too the opportunity to cop a feel of his ass. "Whenever I see a boy getting close to Ruby, I always overreact. I mean, Lady Killer's nice and all and I'd give him a chance to date me if he could survive a spar, but Ruby is way too eager to get a boyfriend."
She gave a depressed sigh and continued. "Our mom died when we were just kids, and there was a close call where Ruby and I almost died. Dad went weird, more than dads normally are; he became desperate to see us grown up and get grandkids, so he really pushed us to start a family. He stopped when I got into Signal and actually started liking boys, but neither of us could manage to give Ruby a reason that she shouldn't. This is actually the first real male friend she's had. She still seems so innocent, and I'm just scared that some creep is going to take advantage of her, so I always feel the need to check whenever a boy tries to be her friend-"
"And all boys like boobs, so they ended up following you instead of being her friend?" The two girls were shocked to see that the door to the infirmary was open and the spider faunus was idly braiding a rope from her webbing. "Are you two going to come in, or do you want to spend more time talking about how you fail at relationships, because people would totally pay to see this if it concludes with you two making out."
Weiss bristled at the verbal attack, but Yang laughed it off. "I would, but I'm afraid I'd get a Weiss cream headache. But what about you? What made you get stuck on Lady-Killer?"
There was a moment of actual, sincere, sane affection shown as Cherri placed a chaste kiss on Jaune's lips. "He's going to change the world, and even if I didn't get to be with him like this, I would still support him." She took Jaune in her arms and led the way into the infirmary. "His drive and fire charmed me back when I was just a little girl in the Arc Orphanage, and he was the new prince who just arrived…
-Flashback-
Cream and I grew up together. Our parents were close friends. No one special, just simple faunus laborers, working in the Schnee dust mines. They died in an accident when we were young. The Schnees didn't want to have to take care of orphans back then, and weren't willing to use child labor, so they used to send all of their workers orphans to the Arc family to raise.
When we arrived, we were greeted by Jaune. He was so serious back then, trying to be the dad for the entire orphanage when his own parents had just died. He knew that his uncle would have taken care of things, but he refused to let another do something that he could do to help anyone. I remember the first time he got hurt for me.
There was a new boy, twelve years old, and he set out to make life terrible for everyone around him. I was going to be his first victim, since I was a faunus, a girl, and had a friend that he could use to hurt me if I didn't bend. He thought he would start small, just stealing my lunch, and no one would notice. Jaune did, and even though he had the loyalty of almost everyone in there, he decided to take on the kid twice his age and triple his weight. The little prince got the shit beaten out of him, but he gave the bully one good punch and took him down. I felt personally responsible, and bandaged him up. Oum, I was so bad back then that I probably made it worse, but that's what drove me to medicine. That's when I knew that I would follow him.
Then came my stupid teenage rebellion. I had studied medicine extensively, and thought that I could fix everything wrong in the world. So, Cream and I ran away to join the newly reordered White Fang since her older brother had joined years back. I practically screamed at Jaune that he didn't understand what I went through when he called to check on us. I was so stupid back then, thought that I knew everything.
Then we found out that we very much didn't know everything. Suddenly, I was told to plant charges in a mine full of human workers. I panicked. I set off the detonator too early. But Jaune was there. I don't know why, or how, but he was there. He somehow found me, and dug me out with nothing but his wits and four ounces of dust. And he got captured for it. When he finally managed to escape, which involved dueling the regional leader of the militant White Fang, he didn't even blame me. He was just glad that I survived, and he swore that he would eradicate the need for the White Fang. That's when I knew I loved him."
-Present-
There was comradery being built, and it seemed like a lesson was about to be learned, so Cream decided to interrupt the moment. "Cherri, you forgot the part where Jirai told you about his semblance and you immediately declared that he needed a mistress for his harem."
The doctor turned to the nurse with a teasing smile. "Sorry, I forgot; which one of us declared that she's marry him after getting one taste of his salad, the very first day we met him?"
Cream blushed like the pure maiden she pretended to be. "It was love at first sight…" She let out a dreamy sigh before letting her smile turn lecherous, "of his equipment! My brother's a bull faunus and Jaune still puts him to shame. Totally worth calling Jaune over when we ran away just to see him fight for my hand in marriage without knowing it." Three sets of eyes focused on the Cow faunus. "It was awesome, Jaune was three steps ahead of Addles the whole time! The nose ring thing that he did was hilarious! Jaune was all 'you know, if you really want faunus to be treated as equals, you should really stop filling all the stereotypes.' Then Addles was all like, 'I'm Adam Taurus! Bull see red! Bull mad!' And that ninja kitty was totally into it, I think she wrote some smut about that even; I should see if I can get a copy."
The other girl's jaws were almost on the floor. Weiss was cursing internally at missing such an event. Yang just let out a low whistle. "Lady Killer's some hot stuff apparently. How come he seems so different now?"
Cherri dragged her jaw off the ground and gave a guilty cough. "Yeaah, we might have sexually harassed him near continually over the course of, like, I don't know… the last 5 years, give or take? He's still there, we just kind of buried him under house-husband fantasy Jaune and reverse-rape fantasy Jaune. If you get into trouble though, he will come out again. Then you can add Serious fantasy Jaune to your wet dreams."
Weiss glared at the Doctor. "I will not, thank you very much. I have no interest in your perversions. I have been trying to make him into a respectable member of public society, something which you have been actively opposing! He's obviously not interested, and whatever you could hope to accomplish has either succeeded or failed, so cease and desist your harassment!"
Cherri held a finger to her mouth in contemplation. "Nope, it'd be suspicious if we stopped now. Plus, it's too much fun. But I'll meet you halfway; I'll help you fix your A cup problem."
"I have no such problem!" She tried to back away, but Cream caught her in a fierce grip. "I am perfectly comfortable in my own body and Jaune doesn't care about such petty, superficial things!"
Cherri stalked up to the girl and received a cheeky thumbs up from Yang. "Well, your personality isn't doing you many favors, so you should at least have an alluring body. Now you can either do as your doctor says and strip, or I'll do it for you. One of these ends up with you walking out with your own clothes on. The other is the fun way."
"I-I will do no such thing!" Weiss tried again to move, but found all of her joints locked in place.
"Chill out Weiss! We're all girls here, the only boy is out cold. There's no reason to be so frigid."
"Exactly! Doctor's orders." Cherri gave a cheeky wink before cutting the seams apart on the white girl's clothes until she stood in just her panties. "Excellent! Now, measurements!"
"Eh?" Cherri calmly took a sample of blood, and took measurements all around the Heiress's body. "I wasn't expecting you to be so… professional about this…"
"Sorry to crush your hopes Ice Princess, but only Jaune gets molested. You don't really have anything that interests me. I'm just not into girls… Unless its in some kind of a three or more way with Jaune, then there's a point."
"Did I need to know that?"
"No, but since you're here I thought it would be good to let you know."
Yang cut into the conversation. "Is that a thing with Lady Killer's semblance, or does he just like seeing girls kissing?"
Cherri looked over at Yang playing cards with the nurse and smirked. "The opposite of the second actually; He takes it as a personal insult if anyone he's supposed to be making happy has to seek it out elsewhere. That's really the only way we can still get kisses from him, provided he's drunk or in the mood. He really is such a guy sometimes."
Three of the girls present giggled, and Yang glanced over at Jaune to make sure he was still out. "I actually have a question about his semblance. What did you mean by 'intangibles?"
"That is a very simple question with very difficult answers. Technically what is being transferred is aura, and since aura is a manifestation of the soul… you can see how that could get messy. The effects can range from limited telepathy to a subject's body changing to fit someone else's mental image, in extreme cases. There's so much that we don't know. Jaune can't use any of the power that his semblance stores, but the thoughts and desires of aura can affect him if a girl pushes it onto him. In some cases, she can effectively read his mind whenever she wants. It's not a clear answer, but it's all I have. I much prefer simple problems with simple solutions." The computer beeped to signal the analysis of the blood was complete. Cherri abandoned Weiss to check the results. "Speak of the devil… Weiss, you're suffering from low-grade malnutrition. You can either eat more and be milk buddies with the small red one and you'll likely develop in a year or two; or, you could wear heels, stuff your bra, take your daily dose of Vitamin Jaune, and that should get you taller and bustier by the end of the month."
A groan from Jaune caught everyone's attention and killed the previous conversation. "Why does everything hurt?"
Yang winced. "Sorry 'bout that, Lady Killer!"
Jaune gave another groan without opening his eyes. "Am I in the infirmary?"
Weiss wanted to threaten him with death if he opened his eyes, but found her jaw locked as well. Cherri instead replied with a sing-song voice, "Yes, so just open your eyes and see your healing angels."
Jaune gave a sigh and began undoing the straps of his armor with his eyes shut. "Yang, who does she have posing naked?"
"It's Weiss."
The boy managed to undo the straps and lifted himself out of his armor. He pulled off his hoodie and held it out in towards Yang's voice. When he received the all clear, he took in the sight of Weiss dressed in his hoodie, and Cherri pouting. "I know you've got her stuck with your semblance, Arachne."
The doctor held a hand over her heart in mock despair. "I'm wounded! You haven't used my maiden name since that time I convinced you that Cream needed to be milked."
Jaune gave a small blush at Yang's snicker, but didn't waver. "This isn't a game. Your actions have consequences. Causing a rift in my team, like you're so obviously trying to do, can lead to all of us dying. So Cut. It. Out."
Cherri leaned forward, her breathing heavy and face flushed. "What are you going to do about it? Spank me? Teach me with your body?"
The man scoffed. "You'd enjoy that, you deviant. No, I'm removing your portion at dinner tonight. You can get food from the regular cooks, Young Lady."
A look of absolute horror crossed her face, before it was replaced by a petulant pout. "No. You have to release her."
He rolled his eyes. "And a kiss is the only thing that will do it? Fine, I'll play your game of pretend."
The Arc Scion leaned down to look into the Schnee heiress's eyes. Cream changed the hospital ambiance music to romantic violins. Weiss felt her face heat up and her heart beat like mad.
Jaune drew close… then went past her lips and planted a peck on her cheek.
As the boy drew away, Weiss suddenly felt her body come under her control again. She crashed forward, all but tackling Jaune as they both fell to the ground, her lips claiming his.
Yang and Cherri traded high fives. "All according to plan. Operation 'melt the Weiss Queen' phase one complete!"
Chapter 6 complete. EDIT: changed some lines in the opening fight scene to increase the ambiguity of Ruby's clueless innocence. Apparently I downplayed it too much out of fear that it would encroach on Cream's territory of pretending to be pure. I think I found a better medium.
Yay for ambiguity! With this, I fulfilled what I promised and left unfulfilled from the previous chapter and a bit extra. I think next chapter is going to focus more on Jaune's not so shocking discovery that Rin is female, because Ozpin watches too much harem anime and wanted a secret agent to suss out Jaune's secret fetishes.
Also, I have a confession to make. I… can't take the fight scenes in RWBY seriously. As a disclaimer, I've only watched the first two seasons, but whenever I see them fight, it's like I'm watching a store demo of a Dynasty Warriors game. This may be because I watched the fight scenes separate, but that was the only way I could take the plot seriously. All the events of the fight just kind of happen. There is no sense given of what is and isn't possible, and people get hit and hurt because the plots says rather than anything in their own skills or lack thereof. Something about it just utterly fails to sustain my suspension of disbelief. They all run on the rule of cool without a firmly established baseline for what is not cool, except for Jaune who doesn't get enough combat time to actually establish that line. They function as good light shows, but I just can't take them seriously.
