Heart to Heart
Chapter 13: Comfort
Jaune had no idea how things had gotten like this, here he was showing in a hotel room with Yang in the other room. This is the kind of thing he never expected of his life to be in a very awkward position with the sister of one of his best friends, not to mention said sister was also very beautiful didn't help the matter either.
Feeling the hot water getting all the cold rainwater off his body he tried a few calming breaths. They were fine, he was just stuck here because of the rain with a friend that's all. He could do this he shared a room with two girls back in Beacon after all. Although to be fair that had taken some getting used to as that first awkward night the team had come up with simple rules for everyone to get along with.
First was that if you changed you used the bathroom, it would prevent people walking in on you that way. Next was to keep any of the more personal clothing articles in your drawer and not laid out for the world to see. Thankfully, none of them had been slobs in that regard, the next was that the girls did their own laundry as well as the boys.
Simple rules but it did allow team JNPR to get along and after the first week things felt a bit normal for them all.
His mind coming back to reality he nodded his head, this was no different from that. They were stuck here and they would just deal with it, hell in the future they might look back on this and just laugh it off after all.
"Hey Jaune." Yang's voice called out.
"Yes!" He jumped as his voice cracked a bit as he made a face in embarrassment.
"They came to pick up our clothing and I was about to call room service for dinner, you okay with what I pick?"
"Y-yeah that's good." He told her hearing some sounds through the doorway most likely her giving whoever it was at the front door their wet clothing.
Jaune groaned softly to himself, why did he have to be so awkward all the time? He found the complimentary soap and shampoo and decided to clean up. Picking up the soap bar he paused realizing that Yang had just used this not too long ago. He was suddenly thinking of how this bar had been pressed all over her naked body while in the shower and he was going to use it on his own.
He quickly put it back with a blush and he reached through the curtain for another bar that was still wrapped up in that white material that all hotel soaps seemed to come in as he tried to pry it off quickly.
In the other room, Yang had gone through the menu in the room and called down for a meal for two. She was glad when she checked the bathroom that there were at least robes for them to wear while they dried out. She currently was sitting on the edge of the bed in said robe, the only thing under it was her underwear. At least that hadn't been too badly wet and both she and Jaune agreed that slightly wet underwear was better than nothing.
She was currently doing her best to dry her hair with a towel when the idea of Jaune strutting out naked came to mind. Her cheeks heated up a bit remembering the feeling of his new growing muscular form and for a split second wondered how he looked.
Yang laughed it off as she shook her head this was bad enough without her imagination acting up on her. She could only imagine what her dad would think of her in this situation, he would be livid that one of his 'little girls' were in a hotel room nearly naked with a boy in the shower. It did give her a good opportunity to have some fun with Jaune after all as the thought made her grin.
She hears the shower stop and Yang laid on the bed on her side making her slightly wet hair positioned just right. She even pulled open the robe just enough for a little cleavage to show as she waited for Jaune to step out. She didn't have to wait long as the room had two robes he came out in the other and when he saw her the poor boy froze like he was an animal caught in the headlights.
Jaune wasn't sure what was going on all he knew was that there was Yang on the bed looking very sexy and looking at him with a heated look. He suddenly felt his throat go very dry, as his body seemed locked in place looking at her. She looked amazing, even with her hair slightly wet it only helped and seriously what was it with girls getting wet that made them seem more attractive?
"So Lover," Yang said in a sensual tone that made the poor boy blush. "Is this the part where we fuck?"
That was it, he snapped at that point.
"Yang!" Jaune went full on blush as his head was beat red as Yang just ended up laughing her ass off. She rolled onto her back holding her stomach as she roared with laughter.
"That's not funny!" Jaune cried out.
"It-it is-ha ha ha-from my-ha ha ha-my position!" Yang could barely get the words out his face and reaction had been just perfect. "What? You-you never-ha ha-wanted to-ha ha-bang a Yang?"
Frowning at her Jaune's shoulders slumped, this was worse than when his sisters would tease him. Then an idea came into his head, there were ways he got back at his sisters and seeing her so defenseless he acted without thinking. He quickly moved to the bed and grabbed one of her feet.
"The hell?" Yang stopped laughing feeling Jaune sit down and take a foot. Before she could ask him what the hell he was doing she found out. His fingers quickly went to work on her feet as he started to tickle them making her laugh even more.
"So you like laughing huh?" Jaune grinned.
"No! Stop-god damn it Jaune!" Yang said between laughs as she tried to fight her way free but Jaune was prepared. As she tried to move up on the bed, he moved with her, she tried to kick him but her free leg was on the other side and made it a bit more difficult. However, Yang knew more about close fighting than he did, she pulled her foot back and when he went to get it, she grabbed him with one hand and pulled him face down onto the bed next to her.
Jaune rolled onto his back only for Yang to bounce on him holding him down. He looked up and was thankful that her eyes weren't red but she did have a determined look on her face.
"N-now Yang you did start it," He tried to defend himself.
"Oh and I plan to finish it," Yang grinned at him wondering what to do but then she noticed something. Jaune's eyes looked down briefly, before his face went red and he quickly looked away.
"Uh…Yang," He hesitantly said making her pause.
"What?"
"You're robe," He said lamely.
She looked down and saw that her little move had caused her robe to open up giving him a full view of her chest with only her orange bra to hide her breasts from him. She instantly felt her face heat up in embarrassment as she sat up quickly to pull the robe close. She sat back a bit too quickly as she landed on his crotch making the poor boy cry out slightly and wince.
"Oh god sorry Jaune I…uh…Jaune," she said slowly as she felt something under her. "Do…do you have something in your robe?"
Jaune placed a hand on his face and shook his head not wanting her to see his embarrassment. He felt like he wanted to find a rock somewhere, crawl under it, and then just die right there. Yang was sitting on him in a way that was pressing up against his slight erection. In his defense her sexy pose and then seeing her exposed hadn't helped he was just glad it wasn't a raging boner at the moment. It was still supremely embarrassing however.
Yang's face flushed as she quickly got off him and both young adult sat up looking away from each other. There was a few moments of silence between them neither of them knowing what to say.
"Sorry," They both said at the same time as they looked at each other and in that moment when they stared into each other's eyes the situation for some reason started to become slightly funny as both let out a small laugh.
"I didn't hurt you did I?" Yang knew that hitting a guy in the crotch was very painful for them.
"I'm okay, sorry that, well that happened…" Jaune felt a bit of shame at the whole thing.
Yang shrugged it off, "Hey thinking about it I get it, hell I would be offended if you didn't get excited with me flashing you…thanks for looking away." She said the last bit softly.
"No problem I didn't want you to think I'm some kind of pervert or something." He replied.
That made her smile a bit as she lightly tugged on a strand of her long hair. Most people she knew wouldn't have said anything and had taken a good look at her but Jaune at least had a healthy respect for women. Maybe it was from growing up with so many sisters? She had no idea but she was thankful it had been him and didn't try to take advantage of the situation. Then again, if he had she would have pummeled him for it anyway.
"How about we keep this just to us then," Yang offered.
"Deal," he quickly responded.
A knocking at the door made them jump as the heard room service being announced.
"Save by diner," Jaune sighed getting up to get it.
By the time they had finished their meal and had set it out for the staff to pick it up outside they spent the last few hours seeing what they could find on the TV. They were on the bed as Yang had the controller, they skipped the news as it was more of the same. Nothing interesting was going on and they ended up just watching some old and bad movie from a few years ago.
They just ended up commenting throughout the entire thing, why that was stupid, why the hero was doing this, how wrong the fight scenes were. Despite this, they ended up having a good time just hanging out and picking apart a bad film together. They forgot their situation and it was more as if they were just hanging out like normal.
By the time the file ended both were feeling tired as they figured it was time to start turning in for the night. Jaune knew this was coming the moment he saw that there was only a single bed in the room. He had resolved to be the gentleman here. He got off the bed and took one of the pillows.
"Well we should turn in," Jaune told her. "I can take the floor so you can have the bed."
"Oh come on Jaune that isn't fair to you," Yang had a feeling he would try and pull a chivalry move like this, it was just something he would do.
"Hey I've slept on worse on the way here," Jaune tried to shrug it off to her. That said, at least when they had been sleeping on the ground they had had bedrolls with them. It had helped when they had to camp out for the night after all.
Yang pursed her lips, she had felt how thin the carpet was with her bare feet and she didn't want to spend the night on it. She also didn't want Jaune who had been nothing but good to her sleeping on it either. She thought about it as Jaune threw the pillow on the ground to make his little spot and she decided to make a choice.
"We can share the bed." She stated freezing him.
"W-what?" Jaune wasn't sure if he heard her right. For a moment, he was wondering if she was teasing him again but she stood up and looked at him very seriously.
"Jaune if this were any other guy I wouldn't offer this," she took a breath. "But I trust you. You've been nothing but a good friend to me, my team and especially my little sister. I know you'd be a gentleman about it and wouldn't try anything."
"Of course not but, well, we'd be…" Jaune was a bit embarrassed as the robe was slightly damp from all the remaining water he hadn't dried off. It wasn't too bad but it would make sleeping there uncomfortable.
Yang had similar thoughts but closed her eyes as she balled her fist. She undid her robe and slid into the bed as Jaune froze at the sight.
"What are you doing?!" Jaune cried out not sure where to look.
"Look we can be adults about this okay?" Yang looked away trying to hide the blush on her own cheeks. "You'd see the same amount of skin on me if I was wearing a bikini."
"You're not wearing a bikini." Jaune said keeping his eyes on the ground.
"I know," Yang snapped at him holding the cover tightly. "But you would still see the same amount of skin so just think of me in a bikini and not my underwear. It's the same for you too you know, I bet I would see the same if you were wearing swim trunks."
While he couldn't fault her at that, his boxers were the same shape as what he wore to the beach. He couldn't help but look slightly at her, she looked nervous, he had never seen her nervous before. This had to be really hard for her to do and he couldn't blame her, it was hard for him too.
It would be a bit more comfortable sleeping without the slightly damp robes clinging to them the entire night not to mention the hotel was already warm they might overheat in them with the covers as well. Sure, they could sleep above the covers but it wasn't like there was any way to make sure the robes didn't fall off either during the night.
"Jaune," Yang managed to look at him. "We're doing this, I'm not making a friend sleep on this floor for the night. So what do you say? Can we be adults about this?"
"Adults huh?" He sighed seeing the stubborn side of Yang coming out. Once she set her mind on something, it was very hard to change it he had learned. "O-okay."
He let it fall and since Yang had been looking at him, she got the full view. She felt her face warm up even more at the sight of him. He looked good, he certainly looked better now after all the training he had done in the past year. Sure, he didn't have say a six-pack like Sun but she could see that he was on the way to it not to mention the rest of him was starting to look somewhat good as well.
Then she noticed the boxers and she couldn't help but snicker.
"W-what?" Jaune looked down.
"Really? They make Pumpkin Pete boxers in your size?" Yang giggled.
"I like it okay," Jaune defended himself quickly getting in under the covers.
"Maybe I should start calling you Bunny Boy," Yang teased him.
Jaune just groaned and turned away from her. Yang did the same turning away as she shifted, she wished she could take her bra off at least. She hated sleeping in a bra it always pinched her in places that kept her from falling asleep.
He felt her shifting and for a moment, he was wondering if she was just trying to find a comfortable spot. Then it hit him, growing up with seven sisters you learn a few things about girls, some things he never wanted to know for instance. This time he had an idea of what might be bothering her but he couldn't do anything about it.
Or could he?
"Yang hold on a second." He got up and went to the plastic bags with the stuff they bought.
"What are you doing?"
"Well from what my sisters talked they don't like sleeping in bras." He pulled out the shirt he had bought it was a long sleeve white shirt and since he was bigger than Yang it would most likely fit her. "You can wear this if it makes you more comfortable."
Yang's eyes widened as she had forgotten about that. "You sure you don't want it?"
"I think it would do you more good than me," He told her as he handed her the shirt.
She smiled down at it, as this would certainly be helpful. "Thanks."
Yang sat on the edge of the bed and then looked right at him lifting an eyebrow.
"Oh! Right!" He quickly turned around.
She was about to warn him about looking but she figured he knew well enough by now. She unclasped her bra feeing her 'girls' and sighed in relief. She cast a quick look over her should as Jaune stood still looking away. She grinned, as she made sure to let go of the bra to hit the ground as loud as it possibly could, she saw him flinch a bit, as he obviously knew what had just hit the carpet.
She smiled as she pulled on the shirt, it was a size too big for her in fact the hem nearly went over her panties. She slipped back into the bed glad that he had been so thoughtful to her.
"I'm decent."
"Hope it helps he slipped in with her as both young adults looked away from each other facing back to back. Yang unhooked her arm and placed it on the small table next to the bed.
"Was that your arm?" Jaune asked hearing it.
"Yeah I don't like to sleep with it on, cold metal and all that." She explained to him. "Goodnight Jaune."
"Goodnight Yang."
The only sound left in the room was the slight drops of the rain outside, the slight hum of the heater as both of them tried to get a decent night's sleep.
-Later-
Yang had no idea where she was, the place looked to be the streets of Mistral but they were empty. Looking up she saw a blood red moon out, the so-called Hunter's Moon. She continued walking down the streets, as there was an eerie quietness to it all. She looked from left to right feeling as if something was watching her.
She felt her nerves acting up as she didn't hear any sounds, she wanted to ask if anyone was there but the sense of dread she was feeling was only increasing. If something was out there then just shouting wasn't a good idea. She felt her heart racing as she finally heard something moving in the dark shadows.
Yang couldn't really see as the shadows seemed darker and thicker than they should be, like blankets of pure darkness where by the light of the moon she couldn't see anything inside of them. Then she heard it the sounds of squeaking metal. She found a path to what looked like a park with a lone child sitting on a swing set. She didn't like the idea of a child alone out here and quickly made her way to the girl.
"Hey there are you okay?" Yang sat down and noticed the little girl was blonde like herself with her hair in pigtails.
"She broke." The child said.
"Who broke?" Yang asked as the child kept looking down and Yang noticed that the girl was holding a small doll.
The child lifted it up and Yang's face froze as she saw it was a small stuffed doll of herself but with an arm ripped off and the stuffing coming out.
"You broke." The girl said as she looked up and Yang could see it was her, her as a child.
Yang cried out falling back but the girl wasn't there in fact the park wasn't there anymore and all around her was darkness. She got onto her feet as she quickly looked around for anything the fear rising in her heart. Then came the growling, the unmistakable growling that came from Grimm. She could see glowing red eyes in the darkness as vague sense of shapes were in there.
"Come on I'm not afraid!" Yang shouted as she readied her weapons but something was wrong. Looking down she saw that her gauntlet was gone but worse, so was her robotic arm.
"Yes you are." A cold male voice said softly as it sent a sliver of ice into Yang's heart.
She turned to see Adam there walking towards her slowly.
"No…stay back, get away from me!" Yang tried to backpedal as something hit her from behind. She grunted as she hit the ground as she tried to look at whatever it was on her. She then heard the growling, felt the large paw on her back and the breath behind her head of a Grimm.
"I think it's time to make the left match the right," Adam slowly pulled out his sword going over to her left arm.
"No, don't do this!" Yang tried to struggle but she couldn't he was going to take her other arm. He was going to do it and she couldn't stop him. She cried out and struggled but it was useless, she was useless. She cried out once more as the blade was raised up to strike.
"YANG WAKE UP!" A voice shouted.
Yang awoke with a start feeling someone shaking her. She pushed away whatever was next to her as she cried out. Her head quickly looked around as she was confused what was going on. She saw that was in a room, a small room with a single desk lamp on, she was in a bed with an oversized shirt on and then she noticed Jaune with a very worried look on his face. It slowly came back to her as she realized where they were and that she had another nightmare.
It couldn't have come at the worst time as she felt the hot tears still on her face, she quickly turned away not wanting anyone to see her in this state. She didn't want anyone to see her like this, she felt weak and out of control and she hated it, she hated anyone saw this side of her.
"Yang?" Jaune asked full of concern for the girl.
"I'm fine," She snapped wiping her face with her only hand as she saw her robotic one where she had left it.
"Yang, you were thrashing around and crying out," Jaune told her, he had been woken up by her obvious nightmare and whatever it had been had to have been horrible. He had never seen her like this, all shaken up and vulnerable like this. He was getting extremely worried about her as he saw her shaking trying to wrap her one arm around herself.
Jaune was trying to think of something anything to say or do, he thought back to a time when one of his sisters had been having nightmares from sneaking out to watch a scary movie. She had been waking up for two days straight. He had gone to her room on the third night as it was next to his, to check in on her. He ended up staying with her just holding her until she fell asleep that night.
Seeing Yang like this made him remember that time and so he moved closer to pull her into a huge from behind.
"What the hell Jaune," Yang said angrily.
"It's the only thing I know how to do," he told her gently. "It's okay to be scared Yang, it's okay to be hurt."
"You don't understand," She felt the words choke in her throat.
Jaune was silent a moment before speaking again. "Remember when I told you I still get nightmares of that night? The worst one is one that keeps happening."
He took a breath, as he had never told anyone this nightmare before. "I'm back there in that moment when Pyrrha pushes me into the locker only this time the locker doesn't leave. I'm stuck there pounding on the door begging for her not to go, to let me out, to…to not leave."
Jaune held her a bit together and the young woman wasn't sure if he was doing it for her benefit or his own as she just sat there and listened to him.
"I keep screaming, begging and no matter how hard I hit the door I can't do anything. Then I hear the fighting, I hear…I hear Pyrrha screaming in pain and Cinder…she's laughing. I hear Pyrrha cry out in pain and all I can do is just stand there and do nothing. I can't do anything because I'm weak, because I can't help her, because I'd just get in the way."
Yang felt something warm and wet hit her shoulders, as she knew it was his tears, she was crying too now. Both from her own torment and from hearing the agony in his voice, she remembered that talk they had awhile back. She remembered how they both felt broken but in this moment she hadn't realized just how broken the two of them were.
She also didn't like to hear how he was debasing himself, she knew he had confidence problems but he should still be proud of what he had done in such a short time. She quickly turned around and buried herself into his chest. She didn't want him to see her face as she was still a mess but she also felt she wasn't the only one that needed someone.
"You're not weak, you're not in the way," She sniffed as he just held her in his arms.
Jaune couldn't form any more words at the moment as he wasn't sure he could get them past the lump in his throat without breaking down. He just held onto her feeling her own tears on his bare chest as he rested his chin on her shoulder. Both of them just wanted to help the other, both of them were hurting, and both of them just didn't want to be alone tonight.
By the time Yang woke up a second time she blinked at the light from the sun hitting her face. She moaned a bit as she noticed the warm wrapped around her and it wasn't the blanket. She blinked a few more times as her mind slowly started to gear back up as she noticed the warm flesh of a chest against her cheek.
Her mind remembered that she was in bed with Jaune and what had happened last night, she didn't remember all of her nightmare it had mostly faded back into the shadows of her mind from where it had come from. She felt his arms wrapped up protectively around her as she found herself snuggling back into him. She felt safe and warm, it was a familiar sensation that she was trying to remember.
Then it came to her, the last time she felt like this was after Summer had died. She had cried so much during that first month but each time her father would come into her room and he would just hold her. He wouldn't say anything but he held her, Yang knew now that he had to have been hurting so much in that time but he had still held his daughter putting his own pain aside for her own.
This was that same feeling, that same warmth and protection.
Yang closed her eyes and just enjoyed the moment she felt her leg over one of his as her own arm was wrapped around his waist. She started to slowly drag her hand over his body feeling the muscles starting to take form on his soft skin as she looked up at him. He looked peaceful in this moment as she couldn't help but smirk as she gently pushed some of his hair out of his face.
He was actually kind of cute when asleep like this.
Yang could only stare at him as she remembered last night, how he had comforted her, how he had opened up and how she had returned that comfort with her own so she couldn't help but study Jaune's face. He looked so young with that baby face look of his and when he wore his armor, he looked like some kind of picture perfect example of those knights or princes in the fairy tales that she used to read to Ruby when their dad couldn't do it.
Yang really started to think about Jaune, he had his flaws that was true but he made up for it in so many other ways. She never gave up, he kept pushing himself to keep getting better and stronger, he was a true friend to those around him. He would always be there for someone that needed him even at the cost of his own life he would give it gladly if it meant he could save someone. Yang hadn't noticed that as she thought about it she was slowly inching closer and closer to his face.
She looked at his lips and wondered what it would be like to kiss him.
'Wait what!?' she suddenly thought as she froze in place. 'Where the hell did THAT come from?'
She noticed her heart beating quickly now as she started to panic a little, she slipped out of the bed trying so hard to make sure Jaune didn't wake up. When she finally managed to do it she made for the bathroom as quickly and as quietly as possible before gently closing the door. She leaned over the sink as she then had to straighten up to use her one arm to run some water and then splash her face.
Looking at herself in the mirror she had to grimace, she looked a mess after last night. Putting her looks aside, she stared at the mirror image of herself.
"What are you doing girl?" She quietly asked herself. "What the hell were you thinking?"
Although there was no answer from the image in the mirror, she knew where this was going. She had been about to kiss Jaune in his sleep, she had been very close to doing it and the thing was as she thought about it.
She wouldn't have regretted it if she had done it.
The realization hit her like a truck, she had no idea when it had happened she had no idea how it had happened but as she started at the wide-eyed look in the mirror, she could feel the answer. She had fallen for him, she had somehow fallen for Jaune Arc of all people. She had no idea if this was just a crush or something more, she had no idea how deep her feelings were but she was sure of one thing.
She had feelings for him.
Leaning forward to stare at the mirror she was silent a moment. "I wonder if this is what happened to you Pyrrha?" She gave a small laugh at it, she had wondered how Jaune of all people had captured the heart of the Invincible Girl who could have had any boy at all but had picked simple Jaune.
Only now Yang knew that Jaune wasn't 'simple' and as she stood there she took a calming breath.
"So…this is a thing," Yang said to her mirror counterpart. She was always one to go at her problems and issues head on after all. There was no beating around the bush with her, she wasn't someone to go into denial or anything about this. She knew what was going on and she needed to figure out what her next step would be.
"So…what are you going to do about it?" She asked herself.
TBC…