When Jaune opened his eyes he believed that he was in the middle of a dream. Not that anyone could fault him. The sight awakened a memory deep into the mind of Jaune, of five years ago, yet for some strange reason it felt as if a more than a decade had passed since then.
He and his family had gone camping. A week of fun before everyone went back to school or to work depending on their age, during the trip the family had done a ton of fun things, from the classic fishing, cooking marshmallows and even rock climbing.
But among all of them the favorite activity of Jaune was to lay down with his family and watch the stars.
He loved everything about them. The way they shone, the figures they made in the night sky, the stories that people had made about them and what they were in realty. To Jaune the stars that existed in the night sky were the most beautiful thing in the world, and as of late that feeling had increased for a reason not even himself knew about.
For that reason the view in front of him was... breathtaking.
A canvas made out of stars that went everywhere. A whole array of different colors and shapes, some lights shinning lighter than others, over all it was not only beautiful but one of the most amazing sights he had seen in his entire life.
"Oh, thank you." A voice boomed behind him. "It's always nice when your work is appreciated. Especially when it is something that you made recently."
Hearing the voice behind him Jaune tried to turn around, just to realize that he couldn't move all that well. There was nothing that could push him, he would call it similar to being under water, but not even that could compare to the situation he was in right now. In reality the closes thing he could thing he could compare his sitution to was when Ruby and him had been playing with some gravity dust.
"Sorry. I should've expected you to not be used to zero G." The voice behind him said in a slightly sorry tone of voice. "Let me fix this for you."
As she said this a floor started to appear right below Jaune. A floor that was approaching him at a neck breaking speed.
Panicking he tried to kind of swim away from it, however just when the floor was about to hit him, it stopped causing a powerful widn that sent him flying up.
Or that would have been the case if a force hadn't pushed him against the floor.
"Ow." Jaune said while getting up, looking to the side he saw a pure white floor that extended kilometers upong kilometers. He was pretty sure that far away he could see a small elevation kind of like a mountain.
Jaune slowly started to get up, just to realize that the surface of the floor wasn't exactly the firmest thing ever. It was weird, moving below him and then putting itself pack in place.
He crouched down and started to pull, the texture reminded him of the latex gloves he and his class had been forced to wear when they dissacted a frog. In fact... it felt exactly the same.
"Hey, aren't you going to look at me now?" The voice asked after Jaune opted to ignore her.
"Sorry, but what is with the floor?" Jaune asked as he looked at the girl. "And where are we-"
He stopped death on his tracks the moment that he turned around. Still frozen and mute he started to slowly walk back, that was until the latex like floor made him slip and fall on his ass.
"Are you okay?" The pretty girl asked after seeing him fall. "You don't look to be doing so well."
Jaune continued to stare at the face of the girl. At those orange eyes that looked just like the sun, to those white hair that flowed like rivers and to the nice shape of her face overall that made those traits of her shine even brighter.
Jaune generally would have focused on that if not for the fact that one of the eyes alone was about as big as fifty hims standing one after another. If not for the fact that those hairs were as big so long that they dissapeared once he looked to the side and if not for the fact that the face of the woman was so massive that even Mount Glenn would have looked like a pimple if it was on her face.
"What are you...?" Jaune asked in disbelief at the woman, unable to completely understand the total dimensions of the girl.
"Hey! That's a very rude question to ask someone!" The girl said the anger appearing in her face making Jaune back away in slight terror. "Especially when that someone is letting you stand on her hands."
Hands. Jaune looked around and realized that mountain in the distance was just the start of a more elevated part of the hand and then he realized that because he was in her hands then that meant that she could just close her hands.
"Sorry, sorry." Jaune said quickly getting on his feet and putting on the best smile that he could, even then he was not able to ease the tension in his body. "I was just caught off guard. What I meant to ask is, who are you?"
The girl stared down at Jaune for a second, judging his words. After a couple of tense seconds she smiled at him. "Oh well, sorry for the scare. I am Sana Tsukumo."
"And I am Jaune Arc." The young man said before looking around, to see a collection of different accumulations of stars and plantes around him each and every single one of them being as beautiful as the first one he saw. "Excuse me, but what is t this place?"
"This? This just my home." Sana said while turning to the right, causing Jaune to stumble by the sudden movement. "Look, over there is the door."
Jaune forward, but the only thing he could see was a cumulous of stars, nebulas and even black holes that formed a masterpiece in space. Without knowing what to say he looked up at Sana, confused by what she was showing him and what he had intended to show him.
"What?" Sana asked looking at him confused. Their eyes met for a second before hers open wide. "Oh, you are way too small. Our perceptions are completely different, for you this may not even look like anything coherent."
"Oh. That makes sense." Jaune said while trying to adjust his view. "So I guess that the idea is ruined."
"Nope, I have a plan." Sana said while smiling down to Jaune. "Grab my gloves, and hold them with as much strength as you can. I am going to show you how my whole house looks instead."
Jaune looked at her with confusion for a second, she smiled encouragingly. Slowly Jaune started to kneel down, with some reluctancy he held the latex gloves with as much strength as he could and a second later the entire world everything around him inmediatly vanished.
Well it wasn't exactly that is vanished as much at it became blurred. The stars and everything around him becoming nothing but lines and generally this would have been something pretty cool to see... if not for the fact that the speed was so incredible that he could feel that his face was being rippsed away from his skull.
"There!" Sana said stopping her advance before pointing with her head towards something. At the lack of response she looked at her hand and she realized how Jaune looked. "Are you okay?"
After going to such amazing speeds Jaune's entire body was shaking. His legs being weak, his eyes were looking every where and his hair looked as if he was the main character of a Mistralian Cartoon.
"Y-Yeah." Jaune said while trying to stand up just for his legs to fail and drop him. "J-Just give me a moment... oh Oum, I am going to-!"
It didn't take a genius to know what was happening, as such when Sana saw the way the cheeks of Jaune were filled out of nowhere she let out a small shout and threw him up in a panic.
While going up with a speed hundred times faster than a rocket going out of orbit Jaune thanked whatever god that had made him super resistant. Because otherwise he would have been burned to ashed by the amazing speed the woman had thrown him.
"BLEEEEEEERRRRRRGGHHHH!"
I'll leave it to your imagination the description of what happened while Jaune was the highest point of being thrown by Sana.
"I... I think I want to die..." Jaune said before looking down, and instead of his attention being centered on the giant woman beneath him, he noticed something in the distance. "So prettty."
A little away there was a mix between a mansion and an observatory. It was amazing, made out of not only stars and planets, but an entire galaxy in all the life of Jaune there was only one star that shone as bright and beautiful, only one sight that could ever compare to this one...
As if it was a truck a sense of nostalgia hit him.
"I got you!" Sana exclaimed as Jaune fell on something soft, something far softer than the hands of the girl... her hair. After all it was like a natural cushion for him.
"Thanks." Jaune said while keeping his eyes attached to the sky above him. "...Hey Sana."
"Hm? What is it?" She asked with some curiosity.
"Why exactly did you rent me?" Jaune asked with some curiosity while moving around on the hair of the woman. "With all due respect, but I don't understand why a girl as big as you would want to have a date with someone as small as me."
"Well, I didn't ren you per se. It was more of a set up." Sana explained while letting out a small laugh. "We were trying to capture and erase the Micalka that were with you."
"Micalka?" Jaune asked confused.
"The people that put you in this job. I would explain it to you, but I think that at least one of the girls already explained it to one part of yourself." Sana explained only gaining a very strange look from Jaune. "We divided you into five, do not worry we will put you back together in a little while."
"Wait what?" Jaune asked his eyes widening at the revelation that there were five of him.
"Huh, didn't you notice the missing ribs?" Sana asked confused.
...What? With some desperation Jaune slapped his chest, however the moment he did so he froze in place. The sudden impact of his hand against his chest had almost caused his entire body to go into shock, his breathing becoming erratic and him having to bite his tongue to avoid himself from screaming till his throat started to bleed.
"Are you okay?" Sana asked after Jaune had fallen silent.
"No..." Jaune with a strained voice. "Not at all..."
Thirty minutes of crying and uninterrupted crying later, Jaune finally recovered. Well it wasn't a recovery, it was more like he had gotten use to the pain and could now talk without sounding as if he hadn't drank water for two entire months.
"You said something about a Council." Jaune said in an attempt to forget the still present pain. "What do you and the other memebers do?"
"We are kind of a border patrol." Sana explained gaining the worried look of Jaune. "Although, that doesn't explain it the best... we are a group that helps the universes greatest beings from messing with each other."
"...Huh?" Jaune asked a little more confused.
"We make sure that the top god of the universe cannot mess with the turf of other top gods." Sana continued to explained in a more simplisitic manner. "We make sure that Zeno does not mess around with the business of the Root. Or we make sure that the Shinigami King does not go and try to pick a fight against the Truth."
"Sana." Jaune called his eyes contemplating to the infinity of space in silence. "Whenever I hear more explanations I feel like my brain is becoming mush more and more."
"I guess you aren't the kind that can take all of this information all at once." Sana said before letting out a giggle. "Is there anything that you want to know? Before we start the date."
"Why did you want to capture the Micalka?" Jaune asked in a slightly hopeful tone of voice. "Did... did you do it because ehat they were doing in my world?"
"If you are asking for the dates, sorry, but no." Sana said and even though Jaune couldn't see the face of the woman he hoped that she was making a sympathetic expression. "We were trying to stop them because they were altering our respective realms. In my case is because their pressence is like a slow acting poison, if they stay in a universe for a long time they end up staying for a maximum of a year in a universe they end up causing its collapse. That's one of the various reasons of why we need to regulate them, especially because their pressence is accumulative. If one of them stays one month and then goes away for three months just to come back then he can only stay only during eleven months before causing the universe to implode."
Jaune remained in silence. His eyes slowly widening as he realized that because of Metatron, Gabriel and the others coming they were consuming their universe away just with their pressence. The question however stood of how much time his universe had left, he guessed that almost a full year because they just stayed a little time everyday.
"Fucking hell." Jaune said as he passed his hands through his face. "I feel like everytime I discover more and more about them the thing becomes more fu-"
While laying the on the hair Jaune turned rolled a little he saw a crab. Not a small little crab like the ones you would see in the beach though, but a giant one, one that could easily crush him with its pincer if it wished to do so.
The thing was at the very least the size of Beacon and even then that comparison wasn't making it justice.
"AAAAAHHHHHHH!" Jaune shouted with horror causing the giant monstrosity to remain in place probably the shout of Jaune being what a mosquito was to a human.
In other words annoying, and because it was annoying it decided to lower its claw with the intention of crush Jaune who could do nothing since to him trying to stop that claw would be like trying to stop a meteor that was about to destroy the entire planet.
"Alright, stop it." Sana said as her giant hand picked up the crab and putting it somehwere that Jaune couldn't see. "That's no way for you to behave against with someone. Behave."
"W-What is that thing!?" Jaune exclaimed with horror as she continued to chastited the little crustacean.
"Oh? This little guy?" Sana asked while still holding the beast that from Jaune's perspective was looking at him like he was the tasties snack to ever appear. "I don't really know where it came from. It appeared one day and I've been letting him live on my head. Though I think that it came from the plantes on my hair."
Plantes? Jaune started to look around and much to his surprise he reaalized that he hadn't been paying attention. Far into the distance there were a group of planets of different colours, massive astral bodies that were smaller than the head of the woman he was sitting on.
"Wow." Jaune said before turning around and seeing even more plantes being used as hair accesories. "Wow! Are they inhabited? There is people in them?" He asked with a wide smile.
"Yep." Sana said as Jaune saw how she was putting the crab somewhere on her head, though because of the size he couldn't see where the monster had ended up at. "There are at least a billion people in each of them."
Jaune looked at those plantes once again amazed while also wondering how they lived their lives. After all they were living on the head of a giant goddess, he really needed to know what those places looked like, hell he wanted to see what the people in those planets looked like. He had always wanted to meen an alien.
"That isn't a good idea." Sana said out of nowhere. "Whenever I get close to a planet they try to start an invasion. So I don't they would be friendly with you."
...Jaune looked back at the plantes and suddenly he felt completely different from the first time he saw them. The amazement transformed into horror, he was almost expecting to see spaceships coming out of the planets to capture him and probe him.
"Understood." Jaune said while scooting away from the edge of Sana's head. "Sooo now that we talked a little while, what do you want to do for the date? Even if the sting operation did not work I am sure that does not mean that we can go and have some fun... somewhere."
Now that he thought about it... where could he and Sana go? The girl was bigger than a planet that completely destroyed any kind of plan that he might've.
"I thought it would be a good idea to go paint something." Sana said before a little various stars started to move away from in front of her. "I was planning on doing it anyway, but I think that doing this while being with someone else makes it even more fun."
"Yeah that sounds nice." Jaune said before stopping for a second. "How do I use stars to paint something... can I even do something like that?"
"Hmm, that's a good point." Sana said before looking around a little bit. "I know. I can read you mind and paint what you are thinking about. But first let me makes something and you can see the process, I am sure that is going to make you understand what to do from this point onwards."
"That sounds fine." Jaune said before looking forward ready to see what the literal goddess was going to make.
He sat down and watched as she thought about it, and then in less than a second she started with her painting. From the perspective of Jaune it may have happned in less than a minute but for Sana it was something that lasted hours, a careful process of making different nebule, stars, pulsars, black holes, comets and entire star clusters until she finished her new masterpiece.
At the end and much to the shock of Jaune it was a portrait of Sana alongside four other girls while a small group of flying animals were around them. If the boy had to guess he would say that those girls were the other Council members alongside their pets.
Jaune looked at the portrait in silence. It was beautiful an image that just by portraying some people brought so much emotions out of how well it had been done and the best thing of was that because it was made out of stars and other celestial bodies then that would mean that the piece of art would remain there for thousands of years.
"So... what do you think?" Sana asked while looking at him with a smile. By her expression Jaune knew that she knew what he thought about the painting, yet he felt compelled to say it.
"It's beautiful." Jaune said while still looking up to the painting. "No offense, but I think you just ruined art for me. I don't see possible that any kind of artist in Remnant is going to be able to do something that reached this level."
"It's just because what I did was beeeg." Sana said still looking at her artwork with a smile and a satisified light in her eyes. "In your own world there are various things that can interest you and from many different sources. Be it from the smallest of snowflakes to a painting made by the hand of an unknown artist."
"What about those pieces of modern art." Jaune asked with some curiosity of a goddess' opinion about the matter. "You know the kind where people just put a toilet in the midle of room and call it art."
"...Even if I don't like it people can like whatever they want." Sana said though for some reason Jaune could feel that there was something else in her mind with the tone she talking.
"Sorry about bringing something like that up." Jaune said before remembering what they were talking about before. "What about that painting you said we were gonna make?"
"Right!" Sana said with her mood improving. "Just imagine it and I will make it reality."
"Sounds good." Jaune said with a smile before thinking of something. "Do I have like, to put the instructions or do I just come up with the image in my mind?"
"Just the image in your mind."
'Alright then.' Jaune thought as he tried to come up with something good for Sana to paint.
Jaune closed his eyes and thougt... and then he thought some more... and then he did it once again. He really was unable to come up with anything wasn't he? Come on, it wasn't so difficult, just think of something that would forever exist in the night sky, something that future generations would witness.
Ah, maybe that was the reason he was unable to come up with anything. A fear that whatever he was going to make stay in the sky would be the last thing of him, and if that thing wasn't good enough then...
"If you are so nervous about it then think with your heart." Sana said to Jaune in an encouraging tone of voice. "There is more than one reason that we have them, you know?"
Jaune took as deep of a breath as he could and began to think with his heart. Since he was little his heart had a single image in his heart: Pride, hope and a sentiment that he had done something good in the world the image in his heart had for a long time painted a hero that would be willing to do anything to help those close to him.
But now...?
It painted resentment. It painted longing. It painted a desire to go back home purer than anything else in the world and even then he could not see himself going back to his family's farm.
Because while he wished to go back home there were other things that he wished he had there that weren't be there.
Back home he didn't have the prospect of cooking dinner for everyone, back home he didn't have the chance of helping someone conquer another person's heart, back home he didn't have the chance to hug someone and expect them to stop crying, he didn't have a group hug that greeted him everytime he went there, he didn't have disgusting food that he had to force to eat yet he still loved, people relying on him to solve a problem, he didn't have someone that was willing to open up to share his secrets, someone that inspired him everytime she stood on a stage, someone that told him the crazy stories she came up with while playing with her toys. He didn't have the heat of another one in bed, loving eyes, a beautiful voice, a reason to wake up and he didn't have the most wonderful moment he had shared with someone else!
"Done!" Sana exclaimed causing Jaune to jump in place.
The boy had to look around in confusion for a little while. He had completely forgotten where he was and just when he was going to ask Sana what was done, he looked at it.
Up in the air there were four cumulous of stars and nebulas, while in the middle of them there were bright stars that outshinned everyi single other star, all with the exception of one that had in the middle of it what seemed to be black hole.
Above him four different eyes had been formed. Two of them were purple and the other two that were blue and red.
These giant eyes should have freaked out Jaune, especially when he noticed that all of those eyes seemed to be looking down at him. But he didn't feel any of that, in fact the only thing he felt was... he felt like he was missed, that he was loved, that was being expected.
Every single second that he looked up into those starts another second that he felt his eyes swell up with tears. Another second that he felt the pain in his heart become sharper. Another second that he felt the knot in his throat become tighter.
"Sana..." Jaune called for the goddess who moved her head ever so slightly to show she was paying attention. "I want to go home."
"And where is home?"
"...I don't know." Jaune barely managed to let out those words, words that felt as if they were burning his throat just by leaving it. "But I wanna know. I want to know with all of my being."
"...I think that the time of our date is over." Sana said as she gently sent the constellation away causing Jaune's heart to weight even more. "How about we reunite with the others and talk a little bit, I am sure they would love to hear how you feel about going home."
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Hello! So, I know what all of you might be thinking "What the hell happened!?" "Why the hell haven't you been updating this story!?" and I have a simple answer to tell you all, I had completely lost inspiration for this story, I felt that I had writeen myself into a corner to continue it. So decided that I have let it wait until I found the way to regain the control of the story and I think I found the way.
So anyway, that you all for reading this chapter and remember that once the Mega Dates are over then Jaune is going to go back to having normal dates that are one to one, so make sure to tell me who would you like to see in those kind of dates.
Also I recently started to Ranma 1/2, however I could not find it in either english in spanish, so I had to read in it in portuguese and just to make something clear, I don't know portuguese so I've been kind of learning as I've been reading. And as of now that I've reached chapter 85 that I can kind of read portuguese perfectly!
Thanks for reading! Bye Bye!