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The Storm

(Of Passion)

'How do I get myself into these situations?' I thought to myself as I bore witness to the shouting match between my partner and the former heiress to the world's largest Dust Company.

"HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY IT? WHAT WE HAVE IS DESTINY!!!"

I'm just glad they haven't come to blows.

Yet.

"SO IT'S 'DESTINY' IS IT? LIKE HOW IT WAS 'DESTINED' FOR YOU TO BECOME THE NEXT FALL MAIDEN? REMIND ME, HOW DID THAT WORK OUT AGAIN? OH THAT'S RIGHT, YOU DIDN'T!"

I could already feel the oncoming migraine as I acknowledged that I need to stop this before it got out of hand.

"ENOUGH!" The thunder in my voice shook the entire room just as the thunder outside shook the ship in response to my mounting frustration.

Whether it was because of the sudden gathering storm outside, the volume of my voice, or because this was the first time I had actually raised my voice against Pyrrha and Bleiss.

"Both of you! You're acting like children," I continued much more softly (but still firmly!) while I adopted what I referred to as the 'Disappointed Dad' look. It was a trick I learned from my own dad when seeing him deal with my more... Difficult... Sisters.

And it worked, because both girls suddenly were redder than Ruby's cloak, and were now unable to look me in the eye.

Now I had everyone's attention.

"For the life of me, I don't understand why you two just can't just get along. But whatever it is, it needs to stop before -"

I was interrupted by the ship's intercom.

"This is your Captain, Patrick Port speaking! This is not a drill. We have Grimm approaching the ship. All civilians must go to decks 4 and 5!"

"Before that," I finish before barking out orders.

"Pyrrha! Nora! Get back to your dorm and grab your gear, then go to the lobby on deck 5. Ren, you're with me!"

Bleiss and Blake had already grabbed their own weapons, Myrtenaster and Gambol Shroud respectively, and looked to me expectantly.

"You two, go to deck three and get ready to repel any Grimm that might try to breach from below!"

Thank common sense huntsmen, in training or otherwise, were licensed to bring their gear on board in case of the rare events like this.

"I need to get Stormflower from our room," Ren spoke up as we left Blake's cabin.

"No, I have a different job for you. We're going to deck five's lobby and I'm boosting you to use your Semblance to cover everyone on decks four and five," I explain as we arrived there to see frightened civilians.

"Right, but what about the Grimm that will board through deck nine?" He asked, and for good reason. Deck nine was open to the outside as deck ten was little more than a room where the ship's navigation and such were.

Another crack of thunder sounded off.

"I'll worry about that, just sit tight and focus on your Semblance."

It was when I finished giving Ren the boost, that Pyrrha and Nora arrived with Yang, Ruby, and Team CFVY.

"Alright, what's the plan Zaps?" Coco asked me, her handbag in minigun form.

"Nora, Pyrrha, I need you two to stay here and keep the civilians safe as well as ensuring Ren stays undisturbed," I gestured towards the now meditating man before continuing.

"Ruby, Yang, I've sent your partners down to deck three to stop any Grimm that might be smart enough to try getting in from below."

The sisters nodded and made their way down while I turned my attention to Coco.

"I think it would be a good idea to set your team up to help the defenses of deck six to take care of anything that might get past me in the event Ren runs out of Aura or loses focus," I finished.

The soon-to-be third-year leader nodded. "Sounds good."

As we left the lobby, I heard Nora call out for me to 'break all of their legs'.

"Good luck out there, Jaune!" Velvet called out to me as I entered an elevator to deck nine.

I gave her a thumbs up before the door closed.

"Show time..."

(--Line Break--)

I wasn't worried. Not at all, really. Sure things looked bad, but we had Jaune here.

He's easily the strongest and most powerful person I know. And that's including my own team, his friends, and even Beacon's faculty.

He defeated that Grimm Dragon at the Battle for Beacon just by throwing one thunderbolt after all.

I didn't even know he could do that.

Neither did anybody else, for that matter.

When I first met him, my thoughts were along the lines of "He's cute." And that was it.

In hindsight, I would suppose it may have been slightly unkind of me that I didn't really expect much out of the first year dressed in worn-out hand-me-down militia armor. He was a bit like me in regard to being quiet and shy. And he was clearly incapable of sticking up for himself towards his fellow humans.

He would allow Winchester to push him around frequently and then there was also the black sheep of the Schnee family who was constantly harassing him.

'Better him than me,' I thought at the time.

I should have known better.

At first, the only positive thing that stood out about him was that his partner was THE Pyrrha Nikos.

Then he saved me from Cardin and his goons.

I still remember it clearly.

Being one of the few faunus attending Beacon, there was nothing I could really do to stop Cardin from doing whatever he wanted.

Like grabbing and pulling on my ears for example.

I couldn't just fight back. I was a faunus, and he was a human. If I did, it would look bad for me and all the other faunus students. I'd get called out as either a sympathizer of the White Fang. Or, even worse, a member.

And I really didn't need any of rumors of that nature going around. My family's hardware shop in Vale was having a hard enough time as it were.

Now if he were just some other human, I could probably have gone to a teacher about his behavior. But due to Cardin's family being major financiers of Beacon and Cardin's own father being on Vale's Council, any Beacon teacher's hands were going to be tied.

But I somehow doubt that would have done me any good...

And with my team being the only friends I had made in the previous year, I had nobody to help me if I ran into trouble like I had with Cardin. So I sucked it up, and tried being as polite as I could to ask them to stop.

I felt like crying when that failed as I knew it would.

'Gods, I'm pathetic,' I remember thinking to myself at the time.

That was when my Knight in, well, school uniform, came in the form of one Jaune Arc.

He had grabbed Cardin by his own ear and quoted something the bully had said just moments earlier.

"So they are real!"

He had exclaimed in a mocking tone, before leaning in with his voice becoming an icy whisper.

"Maybe you should try using them."

Just before throwing a right hook and knocking the bully out cold.

The rest of team CRDL ran out of the cafeteria as fast as they could.

Leaving their leader on the floor.

And me dumbstruck as Jaune stretched out his hand to introduce himself and offer a place for me to sit at his table.

From that moment on, I was entirely his.

I know. It's silly. But that's the truth of it.

I just need to figure out a way to tell him...

"Good luck out there, Jaune!" I called out as I watched the blonde leader step onto an elevator to take him to the ninth floor.

And just before the doors closed, I was given a thumbs up and a reassuring smile that I had come to love.

I was also given the sight of something that shook me to my core.

On the hand that was giving me the thumbs up, I saw it.

A small band of gold.

Right on his ring-finger.

'Please, please, please, PLEASE! Let that be just an abstinence ring!'

(--Line Break--)

"So how many Grimm do you think will try to come through from down here?" I asked my team, trying to pass the time.

"I don't think very many, if any, will try to." Blake answered.

"Really? How come?" I pressed, now curious.

"Hear that storm outside? It's Jaune's. He wasn't all too happy with Bleiss and Pyrrha this morning for making him skip half his breakfast." Blake explained.

"Oh, so they were fighting again." I understood now. Jaune can get pretty hangry at times...

"Way to throw me under the fucking bus, Bitch..." Bleiss grumbled.

"By the way," my partner spoke up. "Where the fuck were you this morning? And does it have anything to do with why that skank was in your bed?"

Say what now? Oh boy, it's too early for this, my head was still a little sore from my mini hangover.

"Breakfast with Jaune, Ren, and Nora. And...it...probably does..."

Blake's rather peculiar answer raised some alarm bells in my head.

"How? Exactly?" Bleiss pressed.

Blake's ears began to droop as she adopted a more worried expression.

Something told me we might actually see some Grimm this morning...

And before Blake could answer, Yang piped up with a question of her own.

"Hey Blake, what's with the bling?" Yang interrupted the interrogation.

"Bling?" Bleiss echoed as she looked Blake over and zeroed in on the cat girl's hands.

I followed my partner's gaze to look upon a small band of gold and what I thought was a sapphire.

"Holy shit! That's a royal blue diamond!" Bleiss exclaimed.

Blake was beginning to look extremely nervous.

"Are they rare?" Yang asked.

"Un-fucking-believably, they're only found in the dormant volcanoes of the Northeastern Valean Mountains on...the... Valean... Frontier..." Bleiss's excited explanation slowly crawled into bewilderment.

"Isn't that around where Jaune lives?" I asked. Then I realized what Bleiss was thinking...

Oh shit.

Then I noticed something else, that Jaune's thunderstorm had gone quiet. And no sooner had I noticed, we all heard Captain Port's voice on the intercom.

"Attention, this is Captain Port speaking. The Grimm swarm has been eradicated, and the storm has passed. The cruise can now continue, but please avoid the lido deck for the next hour as we clean up. Thank you."

Okay, so no Grimm it is.

When we turned our attention back to Blake, she was nowhere to be seen.

"Fucking ninjas..."

(--Line Break--)

As I let the shower water pour on my head, I considered my day.

Event one: Wake up to find out I had drunkenly gotten married to my best friend outside of my team. (Sorry Ruby.)

Event two: Agree with said best friend to try to make the new relationship work after finding out about her feelings for me.

Event three: Tell Ren and Nora about my new marital status over breakfast.

Event four: Don't finish breakfast in favor of breaking up ANOTHER fight between Pyrrha and Bleiss.

Event five: Kill all the Grimm attacking the cruise ship in a thunderstorm.

Event six (still in progress): Take a shower to clean off all the Grimm gunk from the aforementioned attack, while coming up with a plan to survive Blake's parents tomorrow, break the news to everyone, and figure out a way to make things up with Sun for breaking the Bro-Code and ruining his shot at a relationship with Blake.

That's a tall order...

I turned off the shower and stepped out to dry off. Lunch time was coming, and I was hungry.

After I put on my swimming trunks in case I felt like going to the waterslide, I noticed the t-shirt I had set out was missing.

I could have sworn I had set it out next to my trunks and a towel.

Seeing as how the shirt was clearly not in the bathroom with me, I figured it must be on my bed and stepped out of the bathroom and into my cabin.

Only to find Blake without her bow sitting on my bed wearing my missing white t-shirt.

"Hey babe," she greeted me with a sly smirk before standing up.

She was also not wearing any pants.

I turned my attention to my now found t-shirt.

It was a large t-shirt. Big enough to be sort of loose on me, but on Blake?

It was like wearing a curtain style mini-dress with how it hung off her surprisingly bountiful bust.

Where was Blake hiding those?

What? I'm a boob guy.

And for some reason, I liked the look.

I liked it a lot.

"So that's where it went..."

Fighting a blush, I turned my eyes back to my newlywed wife's face.

Still getting used to that thought.

She was grinning now.

"I was feeling a little chilly, waiting for you," Blake explained.

"Waiting for me?" I echoed.

"I've got a new swimsuit I've been meaning to get your opinion on," she answered.

And with that, she threw off the stolen shirt to reveal the most criminally revealing sling bikini I had ever seen.

Blake had to be breaking the law in at least two Kingdoms with the bodyfloss she dared to call a swimsuit.

The black fabric stood out in stark contrast to Blake's creamy pale skin and strained over her breasts, barely holding on as I saw the barest hints of pink upon the twin peaks.

It probably looked like she was buck naked from behind.

My swimming trunks were suddenly much tighter.

Realizing I had been openly staring, I snapped my attention to the ceiling.

"Do you like it?" Blake giggled.

Not trusting my voice, I wisely elected to not speak as I began backing up into the bathroom behind me.

Only to remember I had shut the door behind me as I reached a hand back to find the door handle.

Another giggle.

My face burned as I continued looking at the ceiling.

And just as my hand found the handle that led to my salvation, another, more delicate hand was placed over it.

I could feel the two delightful orbs of squish Blake had all but bared before me as she moved forward and began pressing her body against mine. With the action, I could feel the entirety of her frame and it reinforced how much larger I was than girl before.

And there was no doubt Blake could feel my stiffness.

"Jaune, look at me," the dark haired faunus softly commanded.

Nervously, I peered down into her lovely amber eyes. They were filled with compassion, love, and an eagerness.

"Jaune," she continued, "I know this is new to you. It's new to me as well. But it's okay, you get a free pass to look at me all you want and more..."

And with that, my hand that was still on the now forgotten door handle was guided to Blake's legendary backside.

"Why?" I barely chocked out.

"Because you are my husband..."

That was when I found out what her other hand was up to as I could feel it hold me through my swimming trunks.

"And I am your wife."

This marked the second time today that Blake had kissed me as we held onto each other while I, out of instinct, returned the favor.

You know what?

Lunch can wait.

AND DONE!!!

(Insert meme format of your choice.)

"And then they fucked."

Looks like Jaune is... cumming around!

Okay, I admit, that was bad...

At least Yang might've liked it...

And yes, I know this is quick, but remember, these characters are 18 by this point in time in a profession where they could die at any time.

Hormones run strong.

And Blake's (softcore) yandere/faunus instincts do too.

Plus, nobody's perfect. And post-nut clarity is probably gonna hit Jaune like he hits Grimm in this universe.

Now if you're feeling a little upsetti-spaghetti about not seeing the fight scene of Jaune vs. Ocean Grimm, I am sorry. Between my self-imposed deadline, my job, and the desire to put something out here for anybody who likes a bit of spice in their reading, I had to cut some content.

But don't worry too much. I may do that in the future during a chapter in ARChiving Reactions. Or maybe a flashback to it later on in this fic.

I haven't made up my mind about it.

Next Time:

Facing The Music!!!