AN: Hey everybody, the story is back! Before we begin I want to discuss something. I reread the first chapter and now I'm second guessing the original plan to pair Jaune with Pyrrah as I feel he had some really good chemistry with Ruby last chapter. So the story will either continue with the Arkos pairing and Ruby will be Jaune's best friend or the reverse with Lancaster as pairing and Pyrrah as best friend. Let me know your thoughts in the comments given how he's already interacted with Ruby.

Jaune "Ironhide" Arc

Chapter 2

-Jaune-

Stretching, Jaune finished putting on his pajamas as he walked into the ballroom, ignoring the snickers and laughs of his soon to be classmates upon seeing his onesie. "Hey Rubes, Yang." He grinned as he flopped down by the pair of sisters who looked up, seeing him in his baby blue onesie.

"N-n-nice PJs Jaune." Yang choked out, biting her knuckle as she tried hard not to laugh.

"Well I don't have the chest to pull of something like yours, so I have to make do." Jaune shrugged, "Plus my baby sister got it for me as a birthday present."

"Ah," Yang nodded in understanding, "the things we do for little sisters."

"And there's just no appreciation either." Jaune shook his head, wiping away a fake tear while Yang threw her arm around his shoulders and began to pretend sob.

"You both suck." Ruby sulks, balling up a piece of paper and bouncing it off his forehead.

"I suck?" Jaune gasped before pointing a dramatically shaking finger between Ruby's eyes "You dare accuse me of suckery?! Of launching an artillery strike to my face! That is it! The war is back on! Peace treaty gone! Poof! Vanished! Finito!"

"But I have backup." Ruby retorted with a smug laugh, "After all, Yang is going to back me up, right?"

"Hey now Rubes, don't bring me in on this lover's quarrel." Yang protested with a smirk.

"Yang!" Jaune and Ruby exclaimed in tandem before they paused and shared a glance.

"I'm sure I can renew the treaty against this new foe." Jaune mused aloud, stroking an imaginary beard.

"Naturally an alliance is necessary when dealing with such a dangerous enemy." Ruby nodded in agreement.

"Whoa now." Yang urged warily, "Let's not get too hasty."

"Perhaps this will be the start for a beautiful alliance, a time of peace between our governments." Jaune nodded pleased as he and Ruby shook hands before turning towards Yang with dangerous grins.

"…I was worried that Ruby wouldn't make friends here. Now I'm terrified that you're going to be a horrible influence on her." Yang groaned, burying her face into her pillow with a muffled thud while he and Ruby began cackling.

"So what are you doing there Rubes?" Jaune asked, leaning over to look at her notebook.

"Writing a letter to the gang back at Signal." Ruby smiled as she twirled her pencil between her fingers, "I got moved up two years so everyone in my class was left behind. It's…it's kinda weird to not have them around."

"Well you have me and a more annoying blonde in Yang." Jaune tossed her earlier paper projectile back at her, ignoring Yang as his fellow blond gave him the finger, "I meanwhile will be enjoying a good book." Reaching into his bag, he pulled out the latest in the 'Ninjas of Love' franchise. Hearing the deafening silence, he looked up to see Yang and Ruby gaping at his choice in reading material.

"You…you read smut?" Yang asked incredulously while Ruby fidgeted bright cherry red and couldn't look him in the eye.

"It's not smut." Jaune groaned, having heard this discussion many times.

"Really? You're gonna try using the 'it's art' defense?" Yang raised an eyebrow at him.

"Does a Spruce Willis movie having a sex scene make it a porno?" Jaune shot back, eyebrow just as arched, "It has erotic scenes but it's not a 'smut' book."

"About time I found someone who understood that." Hearing a new voice, Jaune looked over to see a girl with black hair that, after a moment, he recognized as the girl who tore Weiss Schnee a new one earlier. Smiling, the girl sat down, wiggling her own copy of the same book he was reading.

"But…we heard it's really lewd and vulgar." Ruby frowned, "I heard there was a big controversy about it, and I think a boycott?"

"That's because a horde of angry middle-aged soccer moms got horrified at the thought of a book having both erotic scenes and the romantic leads being lesbians." Jaune rolled his eyes before dropping to the dullest monotone he could manage, "A married lesbian novelist writing a romance story where the main character is also a lesbian? Oh the horror, the sheer unadulterated horror."

"I didn't know the writer was married." Blake blinked surprised, "I thought nobody really knew much about Saffron Cotta."

"She's my sister." Jaune shook his head, "Saffron Arc married Terra Cotta. They also have a son, Adrian, cutest little rugrat you've ever met." Reaching into his bag he brought out his wallet and showed them a picture of Jaune with the girls and Adrian, "They live up in Argus."

"He's so cute!" Ruby and Yang squeed as they looked at baby Adrian in the picture.

"Yes, yes he is." Jaune nodded, tucking away the photo as Ruby and Yang blinked before calming down from the cute euphoria high.

"Thanks for the help earlier by the way." Ruby looked over at Blake, "With the whole Weiss…situation."

"You're welcome." Blake nodded, "It was a pleasure to put someone like that in their place."

"Someone like that?" Yang asked confused.

"A Schnee. A racist who exploits the lives of those they see as lesser than them." Blake scowled angrily, clutching her book tightly.

"She seemed kinda stuck up but isn't that a bit of a leap?" Jaune asked, "We never saw anything about racism? I don't wanna jump to conclusions just because her dad is apparently a prick."

"She's a Schnee." Blake scoffed.

"Isn't that the same arguments racists use against Faunus? Saying that since they're a Faunus they're probably white fang?" Ruby asked, head tilted as Blake's eye twitched at that, but she didn't respond.

"Alright, enough of this." Yang waved her hands, "We are three bombastic babes and a blond noodle wearing a bunny onesie, all of us about to go through initiation at mother fucking Beacon, and we're talking about racism and corporate boring bullshit. We should be living it up! Partying!" Yang threw out a rock and roll hand as she did a momentary head bang.

"Yes, only the wildest of evenings here at the great Beacon slumber party." Jaune adjusted an imaginary monocle, "For only the classiest of wild party folk…wait a damn minute I am not a noodle!"

"Keep telling yourself that Jauney boy, keep telling yourself that." Yang smirked, patting his cheek mockingly.

"That's it." Jaune growled playfully, "You, me, arm wrestle, now!"

"Challenge accepted!" Yang lay down as she offered her hand, Jaune grasping it while Ruby rushed over in a blur of rose petals to officiate.

"You got soft hands there Jauney." Yang teased, "Real feminine."

"It's called lotion, you should try some. Some better shampoo too, are those split ends?" Jaune smirked, remembering Ruby mentioning earlier that Yang was obsessed with her golden mane.

"You take that back!" Yang demanded, her hair glowing angrily as she glared at him, "It is ON now Jaune!"

"Care to make a wager on this?" Jaune grinned as Yang gripped his hand tight, a crowd forming around them in a circle as an energetic orangette began flitting about taking bets.

"Name the stakes." Yang grinned cockily, "Let me guess, you want a kiss?"

"I won't turn one down if you're offering." Jaune smirked back, "But I was thinking if I win, you and Ruby have to read the entire Ninjas series without complaining."

"Wait, don't I get a say in this?!" Ruby gaped at them.

"Nope."

"Not really."

"You both suck." Ruby pouted.

"And when I win you have to wear a wardrobe of my choosing for a week." Yang grinned as they quickly went from preparing to arm wrestle to shaking hands and right back again.

"Begin!" Ruby declares as he and Yang start pushing, Yang blinking in surprise at the fact that he didn't lose the moment the duel started.

"You're stronger than you look noodle boy." Yang grunted as she began putting more and more force behind her fist, his own inching towards the floor.

"Thanks…wow and I thought my pajamas were bad." He did a double take over Yang's shoulder, eyes widening believably as Yang turned to look. Quickly, Jaune threw all his weight behind his fist as Yang's hit the floor.

"You tricked me!" Yang gaped, more shocked than angry.

"I have seven sisters." Jaune smirked smugly, buffing his nails against his chest "I had to learn fast if I didn't want to be tricked into doing their chores every bloody day. It was much more fun being the trickster." Reaching into his bag, he pulled out the first ninjas of love book, "Here you go girls. Be sure to take care of it. If I find you damaged my book then you'll regret it." His dangerous smile made the sisters gulp and hold each other tightly.