Here is chapter 16! I know that some aren't overly pleased with the Sun/Blake pairing, but I can't please everyone (besides, I don't think I could pull off jealous Velvet very well). Thanks for all the reviews and support and a special thanks to Kisdota-The Freak Gamer who gave me the whole jealousy idea.

Enjoy the chapter.

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"Wait, what?" Jaune stumbled back a couple steps.

"I said that we should go to the dance together," Blake repeated herself.

"Okay… Maybe I should be asking why?" Jaune closed his dorm room behind him, not wanting Nora or Ren picking up on this conversation.

"What do you mean why?"

"Why are you asking me to the dance? You've never really shown any interest in me before."

"Are you rejecting me?" Blake forced as much disappointment into her voice as she could.

"No! No, I just didn't know that you were into me," Jaune gave a little cocky smirk, "but what happened to the guy Blake was talking about?"

Blake rolled her eyes. "It turns out that he was already taken and I figured that since Pyrrha wasn't going to ask you, you'd be available. Don't get overconfident. We're only going as friends."

Jaune dropped his smile, blushed and laughed nervously. "Uh, right, sorry."

"So what do you say?" Blake asked.

Jaune let the idea roll around in his head for a bit before responding. "Sure, sounds like fun."

"Great. And one last thing. Don't tell anyone about this ok?"

"Why?"

"Well we wouldn't want Yang teasing us about this all week right?"

"Oh right, of course," Jaune nodded. "See you then."

"Bye."

Blake walked back to her room and thought about what she just did. Of course she disliked the idea of causing unnecessary drama or petty revenge, but what Pyrrha did made her mad. She understood that the red head might have not known about her feelings for Sun and that was forgivable, but she would not tolerate what Pyrrha was trying to do to Jaune. Even if Jaune did return the Spartan's feelings and was being stubborn about, it gave Pyrrha no excuse to play with his feelings. Blake decided that Pyrrha would need a taste of her own medicine… and she may have been a little upset about Sun.

Jaune returned to the room with a smile on his face. "What was that about?" Ren looked up from his book with a curious look.

"Um… nothing," Jaune replied.

Nora, who was curled up at Ren's side, reading a magazine, turned to her leader. "Who was it?"

"Um… no one," Jaune's eyes darted nervously to the side.

"But there was a knock," Ren asked, getting suspicious.

"Um… yes there was."

"So who knocked?"

"Um… um…. Pranksters who ran away."

"But we heard another voice. And you went into the hall."

"Um…. You know…" Jaune trailed off.

Ren narrowed his eyes. He knew Jaune was up to something, but he also knew that team JNPR's leader wasn't going to talk right now. He let the subject drop and figured he would figure it out later.

The three members hung around their room until Pyrrha returned. "Hey, where were you?" Jaune asked as she entered.

"I was out to arrange my date for the dance," Pyrrha replied.

Out of the corner of her eye, she could see shift uncomfortably on his bed. She gave a cheer of victory in her head and went walked over to her desk to do some of her homework. The afternoon went by quickly. Jaune was quieter than usual and Pyrrha couldn't help but notice the slight smug smile that Blake had.

Afterwards, as the two teams were walking back to their dorms, Pyrrha walked up next to Jaune. "How about we do our training for tonight?"

"Hmm? Uh, aren't you worried that your date will see you with another guy?" Jaune avoided eye contact.

Pyrrha chuckled before responding. "It'll be fine. I made a promise to help you and I intend to keep it."

"Sure, I guess," Jaune muttered.

Even though he was happy that Pyrrha moved on, albeit faster than he thought she would, Jaune was still aware of his own feelings and would admit that his heart ached a bit.

"Oh! I just remembered," Yang interrupted the duo, "Nora, Pyrrha. We're going dress shopping tomorrow. You wanna come?"

"Yay! That sounds like fun!" Nora threw her arms in the air.

"That does sound pleasant," Pyrrha added.

As the girls began to talk about where they were going to go, Ren turned to Jaune. "I suppose we should pick up a couple of tuxes as well."

"We?" Jaune inquired.

Ren leaned in closer to whisper. "You wouldn't want to look bad for your date."

Jaune whipped his head around. "How did you-"

"You're not hard to read. However, I don't who it is yet."

"Fine, we'll go shopping tomorrow to."

The next day came and all the classes went by. When the students got out, the girls quickly rounded up Velvet and headed to town. The boys struggled to keep up with their eager friends, but thankfully, the air shuttle waited for all the students to get on. Once again, Jaune suffered his air sickness, but the repeated flights allowed him to build up some resistance. They landed in town and the two genders parted ways to separate stores.

Over at the dress shop, the girls wondered around the store. Yang found one that she liked and went to the change rooms only to find her sister standing outside one of them without a dress. "Hey sis, aren't ya getting something to impress the ice princess?"

Ruby turned to her sister with her regular smile. "Yep. Weiss and I were going to help each other choose dresses. Weiss is changing into one right now."

Yang cocked her eyebrow. "So what you're telling me is that there's a half-naked Schnee in there?"

Ruby blushed, but nodded. "And the only thing separating you form her is a flimsy curtain?" Yang continued.

"I-I guess," Ruby stuttered.

Without saying another word, Yang shot her hand out to push Ruby, who yelped and went tumbling into the dressing room. "Gah! What are you doing!" The heiress screamed.

"It's not my fault! Yang pushed me!" Ruby defended herself.

"Please, she stares at you every morning in the locker room. This isn't anything new to her," Yang managed to say through her laughter.

"That's not true!" Ruby shouted.

"Ruby, GET OUT!" Weiss screamed again.

Ruby scrambled out of the change room and glared at her sister. "What?" Yang wiped a tear from her eye.

"That wasn't funny! Weiss and I agreed to take it slow. And I don't stare at her in the locker room! We stay on opposite sides," the scythe wielder puffed out her cheeks and pouted.

"Well than you can thank me then," Yang gave a triumphant smirk.

She walked away and laughed as her sister stuck her tongue out at her.

While the others looked for the perfect dress, Blake approached Pyrrha with a frown. "I need to talk to you."

"About what?" Pyrrha asked, disturbed by her friends sour demeanour.

"I know what you're doing to Jaune and it's wrong," Blake responded.

After she calmed down, Blake realized that what she did was going to do more harm than good. This was the first time that the others were distracted and she could corner Pyrrha. "W-what do you mean?" Pyrrha stuttered,

"You're trying to make Jaune jealous," Blake accused.

Pyrrha sighed. "You're right. But I'm not doing this just for me!"

Blake raised an eyebrow, encouraging the Spartan to explain further. "This isn't just about my feelings for Jaune anymore. Even though he's improved so much, Jaune still thinks of himself as inferior to the rest of us. He even told me that he thinks I deserve better. That kind of thinking is still holding him back from fulfilling his potential. As his friend and as his partner, I find it my responsibility to help him get past that."

"By making dates with Su- other guys and playing with his feelings?" Blake asked.

"I know it's wrong, but I wanted to see how he reacted if I did as he said. I thought that maybe he would realize that he was wrong and snap out of his stubbornness. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem as fazed as I thought he would be, but I haven't seen or heard of him asking or being asked any other girls."

Blake coughed and looked to the side guiltily. After hearing Pyrrha's side of the story, she could see where she was coming from and her anger left, but that didn't change the fact that both girls were going to the dance with each other's crushes. "I may have asked to the dance…" Blake confessed.

Pyrrha's face went from shock to anger before she calmed herself down. "And why did you do that?"

"Well I wanted to give you a taste of your own medicine," Blake blushed as she stared at her own feet, "and you kind of asked out they guy I was going to and I was mad."

Pyrrha slapped herself in her forehead. "Of course! How did I not see it? He had your book and he was talking about a quiet girl. I'm so sorry Blake."

"It's alright. I'm sorry I tried to get back at you."

The two girls laughed. "Wait, he talks about me?" Blake asked.

Pyrrha nodded. "He only agreed to go to the dance with me to make you jealous."

Blake scowled, but then smirked. "How about we teach both these boys a lesson then?"

Pyrrha mirrored Blake's mischievous look and nodded. I wonder if the guys ever have this much drama when shopping, Pyrrha thought to herself. Over at the men's wear store, Jaune and Ren had just entered. "How's this one?" Ren asked holding up one of the tuxedos.

"Is it your size?" Jaune looked it over.

"Yeah."

"Then it's good," Jaune replied and picked up another from the same rack, "I'll get this one."

"Cool. Want to go get something to eat?"

"Sure," the replied as they paid for their suits.

The rest of the week flew by, Pyrrha and Blake keeping their scheme hidden until the night of the dance. As the two teams entered the auditorium, the two girls decided to set their plan in motion. After the others went to dance and mingle, Pyrrha excused herself to go look for her date, leaving Jaune and Blake alone. "So…" Jaune chuckled nervously.

"No need to be nervous Jaune," Blake smiled lightly. "Why don't we go see who Pyrrha brought?"

Jaune frowned to himself, but hid it behind a false smile. "Sure."

It didn't take long for Pyrrha to find Sun. "Hey, ready to make your guy go nuts with jealousy?" Sun asked when he spotted her.

"Yes. He's over there," Pyrrha replied as she pointed in Jaune's direction.

Pyrrha locked arms with Sun and lead him to where her friends were, but was stopped when she heard Blake's angry voice. "Pyrrha! How could you!? That's the guy I was talking about and you had the nerve to go behind my back!?"

Pyrrha and Sun turned around to see a seething Blake and a very confused Jaune. Pyrrha saw that Blake was currently holding onto Jaune's hand and scowled back at her. "Well what about you? You knew that I had feelings for Jaune and that didn't stop you!"

Both girls let go of their partners and stomped toward each other. When they were face to face, they subtly winked at each other and continued their fight. They hoped that the boys would come to stop them. Blake hoped that Sun would learn that he shouldn't try to use jealousy as a weapon and Pyrrha wanted Jaune to stop being passive about her seeing other guys.

However, when neither of them heard any notion of the boys coming to interrupt their mock fight, they looked to see Jaune and Sun talking to each other. "Jaune? Hey man, how's it going?"

"Hey Sun. I see you came here with Pyrrha," Jaune rubbed his arm and avoided eye contact.

"Wait, is she the girl that you were running from the other day? Aw man, I'm sorry," Sun apologized.

"No, no, it's fine. I'm glad she has someone else now," Jaune gave a fake laugh.

"Are you kidding me? I'm only here with her because she said she wanted to make some guy jealous. I would've never agreed if I knew that guy was you."

"Wait, jealous?" Jaune asked as he threw a scowl in Pyrrha's direction. "Blake said she asked me because the guy she wanted to come with was already taken."

"I see," Sun smiled slyly at Blake.

The girls realized that their plan had failed miserably and both tried to come up with valid excuses for their actions. Sun nodded to Jaune before sliding up next to Blake. "So, you really wanted to come here with me, huh?"

Blake crossed her arms and looked away, trying to retain her dignity and hide her blush. "I'm still mad at you for trying to make me jealous."

"And didn't you hook up with my bud Jaune to do the same?" Blake could hear the boy's smirk.

"That's different," Blake retorted.

Sun laughed and threw his arm around the other Faunus' shoulders. "Alright, how about I make it up to you be showing you a good night?"

Blake blushed even more as her defenses broke down. "O-ok."

The couple went to go dance, leaving a nervous Pyrrha with an annoyed Jaune. Jaune had his arms crossed and waited for Pyrrha speak. "Jaune, listen, I know what I did was wrong and I'm very sorry, but I just wanted you to get over your insecurities and I thought that you would realize that you were wrong if I did start seeing someone else."

Jaune, being as kind and soft-hearted as he was, was no match for Pyrrha's honest apologies and guilty expression. He sighed as he said "It's fine, but don't do something like that again. Find someone that you can be happy with, ok?"

"I already did," Pyrrha muttered under her breath, but nodded.

"So… you aren't seeing anyone else?" Jaune asked, suddenly acting nervous.

Pyrrha smirked and walked up to him. "Nope, I'm still all yours."

"Pyrrha…" Jaune had a bit of an edge in his voice.

Pyrrha backed up. "Sorry, but you know, I now don't have anyone to dance with."

"You can still go stag like Yang and Velvet," Jaune reasoned.

"True, but would a gentleman like you really leave me by myself," Pyrrha appealed to Jaune's strong sense of honor, "we can dance just as friends."

Jaune's resolve finally broke. "Ok, but only as friends," the knight smiled to his teammate.

They went to go dance with the rest of her friends and enjoyed the rest of the evening. Jaune, you're a great guy, but you need to think more of yourself, Pyrrha thought as they headed back to their dorm rooms for the night, and I'll be here to force you if I have to. There's no way I'm giving up now.

Honestly, I don't think this was one of my best chapters, but I did my best and I appreciate your thoughts as well.

Bonus: The next chapter is called 'Meet the Arcs'.