All right everyone, here it is, the rewrite of Jaune: A Faker's Tale. If anyone has a better name for it please let me know. There will be several changes, such as Jaune's attitude, and the pairings for this fic. Hope you all enjoy.

Chapter 1: Welcome to Beacon.

In the city of Vale sits one of the most prestigious Huntsmen Academies in Remnant: Beacon Academy, headed by the famous Huntsman Ozpin. Teenagers from all over Remnant come to Beacon in order to learn how to become a skilled Hunter or Huntress. Teenagers like our protagonists.

'This...fucking...sucks.'

This thought belongs to said protagonists, Jaune Arc, who was cursed by the Gods in the form of motion sickness, which primarily made an appearance during air travel, such as on a Bullhead ride to Beacon. Jaune, however, gave no outward appearance of being sick, sitting down on one of the Bullhead seats, ramrod straight with his eyes closed. However, looking closely, one could see that Jaune was concentrating his Aura in an effort to control his sickness and preventing him from vomiting.

'Gods, if I did that no one would take me seriously.' Jaune thought as he opened one eye and looked around at the students on the Bullhead, scanning for any that he would deem adequate as a teammate. 'Although, that is only is my first plan fails.'

Closing his eyes, Jaune returned to concentrating on his Aura.

'...My first plan is totally going to fail. Did I just say 'totally' like some sort of Vale beach girl?' Jaune thought in distress. 'Oh, this bodes poorly.'

(Time Skip)

(End of Bullhead Ride)

'Finally.' Jaune thought as the Bullhead landed and the other Hunters-in-training began to file out. Once the last one had left, Jaune stood and walked out. Looking around at the Beacon courtyard, Jaune began to memorize vantage points, places for cover, places he could use the environment against opponents, and other useful information about the area should a fight arise. Jaune was shaken from his planning by the sound of an explosion somewhere close to him. Eyes widening, Jaune quickly ran towards the source of the explosion, all the while preparing his two handguns, Kanshou and Bakuya. Jaune lept over some bushes blocking his view, rolling on the ground and coming to a knee while aiming his guns at the source of the explosion.

"YOU DUNCE! DO YOU KNOW HOW VOLATILE THIS DUST IS!"

Jaune froze in his crouch as he stared at two girls arguing over a pile of soot covered luggage. One of the girls, dressed all in white, was waving around a vile of Red Dust and yelling, while the other, dressed in red and black, was waving her arms and appeared to be apologizing. '...This is going to be a madhouse. I can already tell.' Jaune thought. Standing up, Jaune holstered his weapons and stood up, continuing to watch the situation unfold.

"Do you even know who I am?" The white hair girl asked, getting in the younger girls face. It was then that another young woman, clad in white and black, approached.

"That's Weiss Schnee, heiress of the Schnee Corporation-" at those words the girl, Weiss, puffed her chest up - "the company known for its questionable business dealings and horrible worker conditions." At the end of the new girls speech Weiss deflated and glared at the girl who simply stared back. Weiss huffed before grabbing her luggage and leaving. The second girl tried to talk to the third, but saw that the girl was walking away. Seeing the girl fall on her back in distress, Jaune sighed and began to walk over to her.

'Gods damn my hero complex.'

Once he stood above the girl, Jaune leaned over and reached out a hand. "I don't imagine the ground is terrible comfortable. How about getting up."

The girl took his hand and quickly stood up before beginning to sprout off. "It wasn't...I mean I don't like." Seeing the girl was starting to spazz and freak out, Jaune sighed before holding a hand up stopping her.

"Let's try it this way. My name is Jaune. What's yours."

The girl stopped and gave a small smile. "Ruby. Ruby Rose."

(Scene Change)

(Beacon Auditorium)

Jaune and Ruby both arrived at the auditorium. Well, it was more like Jaune arrived while Ruby kinda trailed behind him. Once they had introduced themselves, Ruby began to ask Jaune questions, most of which revolved around the weapons that she could see at his side. Most of Jaune's responses were simple grunts, "yes" or "no". After asking half a dozen questions and getting no real response, Ruby realized that Jaune wasn't going to take part in a real conversation, so she kept quiet.

Looking around the auditorium, Jaune began to survey who was there, as well as what weapons the students had brought. Feeling a tug on his coat, Jaune looked down to see Ruby looking nervous.

"Umm...I see my sister over there." Ruby began as she pointed off to the side. "I'm...going to go see her. Bye Jaune." Ruby began to walk away, Jaune's eyes fallowing here. Thinking back to the walk here, as well as the observed altercation with the Schnee girl, Jaune sighed and began to follow.

'Sometimes, I can be far to nice.'

Jaune saw Ruby approach a tall blonde haired girl before beginning to talk to her. The girl's face turned to look at Ruby, allowing Jaune to see it. The young Hunter-in-training froze in place as he stared at her face. 'She looks...so much like her.' Jaune thought as images flew through his mind.

Fire blazed around, burning everything, as people in ragged clothes and armor attacked random civilians. A red blade descended and a scream was heard…

Jaune shook himself out of his thoughts before clenching his fist. 'She's not her. She can't be her.' Continuing to walk towards the duo, Jaune unclenched his hands.

'But...why?'

Before he could approach further, he noticed Weiss Schnee approaching the girls. Her presence noticed by Ruby, who proceeded to jump into the blonde haired girls arms. Rolling his eyes at their behavior, Jaune began to pay attention to their conversation. Unfortunately what he heard made him again question why he had come over in the first place.

"Sure, and maybe we could stay up and talk about cute guys like tall, blonde and scraggly over there." Weiss said while gesturing to Jaune.

'Ok, if I'm put with her I just might quite and leave her here.'

Focusing, Jaune saw that Weiss had said something after that that caused Ruby to look downcast, while the yellow haired girl glared at Weiss. Before anything else could happen and coughing sound was heard and everyone looked towards the stage to see an older man in a green suit standing next to a younger women with blonde hair.

'Old man and Glynda.' Jaune thought before smirking. 'I hope they realize that if I don't get what I want I will make there lives a living hell.' Tuning out the headmaster's speech in favor of planning what to do to the two of them in case he didn't get his way, Jaune returned to reality when Weiss stormed past him, bumping into him without apologizing.

"...Rude." Jaune muttered. Turning back to look at Ruby and the blonde haired girl, Jaune once again began to approach them, catching a little of their conversation as he did.

"Yang, I don't know what to do! That makes three people who I could have become friends with that left because of me! What do I do."

Before the girl-Yang-could respond, Jaune decided to but in. "First, you could carry yourself with some confidence."

The two girls whirled around to see Jaune standing with his arms folded across his chest. Ruby backed up a little, while Yang stepped in front of her protectively. Jaune shook his head and sighed. "Before either of you say anything, allow me to speak please. Ruby," Jaune said addressing the young girl in the same even tone he had spoken in, yet his eyes softened as he stared at the nervous young girl. "I came to...apologize. I'm...not the best with making friends, never really had any to begin with." Jaune admitted to the two before continuing. "Looking back, I realized that I was being rude and kind of a... dick." His choice of words caused Ruby's face to turn red, while Yang's face shifted between confused and guarded.

"What I'm trying to say is...I'm sorry. And to make it up to you, seeing how much you like weapons." At this Jaune removed Kanshou and Bakuya from their holsters and held them up. "These are Kanshou and Bakuya, two automatic handguns. They each have two blades made of a rather durable metal, as well as this function." Spinning the guns around, Jaune pressed the grips of the two together, activating the form shifting mechanisms, which allowed the two guns to attach. The end result resembled a double pike, except shorter.

Ruby looked at the weapons with stars in her eyes, leaving Yang's side in a flash of rose petals. "EHHHH! Those are soooo cool! What kind of ammo do they take, can you use dust round, what can the blades MMPH." Yang put a hand on Ruby's mouth to prevent her from over exerting her verbal motor functions. Looking at Jaune, Yang gave him an exasperated look, underneath which Jaune could see that she was rather grateful.

"Thanks alot…"

"Jaune"

"Thanks a lot Jaune, now that she's started, she will never leave you alone until you divulge all your weapon related secrets."

Jaune nodded with a small grin, before looking behind Yang. "Good afternoon Glyn."

Yang and Ruby turned around to see Assistant Headmistress Glynda Goodwitch, looking at the three of them with a small amount of anger in her eyes.

"Jaune." She nodded. "If you would follow me, Headmaster Ozpin would like to speak with you. Ms. Xiao Long, Ms. Rose, if you would stay here."

Jaune began to follow Goodwitch before turning back towards the girls. Addressing Yang, Jaune spoke "It seems slightly unfair that you know my name and yet we haven't been formally introduced."

The yellow haired girl smirked at him before winking. "Names Yang Xiao-Long."

"Jaune Arc. A pleasure."

"Not yet it isn't" Yang smirked while Jaune raised an eyebrow. "See yah later Jaune"

Jaune nodded before turning back around and continuing to follow Goodwitch. 'Yang Xiao-Long...why do you resemble her so much and yet...you also seem like a completely different person.'

(Scene Change)

(Ozpin's Office)

Jaune and Ozpin sat in the Headmaster's office, staring at each other, as they had been doing since Glynda dropped Jaune off there five minutes ago. The headmaster was the one who broke the silence first.

"Mr. Arc."

"Old man."

"How have you been."

Jaune shrugged. "Same as usual."

"I see." Ozpin took a sip of his coffee. Seeing an opportunity, Jaune spoke up.

"I have a request."

"As do I." Cocking an eyebrow, Jaune stared impassively at the headmaster.

"Maybe we can help each other."

"Maybe."

"I don't want to be on a team. What do you want."

Ozpin grimaced. "Jaune, I know you don't want to get too close to others, but being on a team is a part of going to Beacon."

"Don't care. You're the headmaster, you can change that,"

Ozpin looked Jaune in the eye. "But is that what they would've wanted for you."

Jaune glared at him. 'Low blow Ozpin.' "It may not be what they would want, but it's for the best."

"Is that so." Ozpin put his coffee down and interlaced his fingers in front of his face. "Allow me to make you a deal. Initiation starts tomorrow. You will be assigned to a team. If, at the end of the first semester, you find your teammates to be a hindrance and still believe that you could do better yourself, then I will allow you to be an independent student."

Jaune thought over the deal in his head. 'I just have to put up with them for one semester. I can deal with that.' "Deal." Jaune said sticking his hand out. Ozpin took it and shook. Leaning back into his chair, Jaune spoke again. "Now, what did you want from me."

"Ah yes, well...look for yourself." Ozpin said before handing Jaune a folder. Opening it, Jaune briefly read the contents, his eyes widening. Looking back at Ozpin, Jaune locked eyes with the man, asking a silent question.

"Indeed." Ozpin said. "Will you do it."

(Time skip)

(Ballroom)

Jaune began to subconsciously set up his sleeping bag in a corner of the room, all the while going over the information that Ozpin had shown him. 'It's depressing.' he thought. 'To think that such an institution has such a glaring flaw. I had no choice but to agree. It would be an insult to anyone with even a modicum if skill in the art.'

As Jaune continued to think about the situation in his head, he failed to notice Yang and Ruby coming over to talk to him until Yang spoke up.

"You know, you don't have to be so isolated. You could come with us."

Turning to face the girls, Jaune shook his head. "Thanks for the offer, but I would prefer to be by myself while I sleep."

Yang grew a mischievous grin before approaching Jaune while swaying her hips. "But Jaune." She purred as she ran a finger up and down his chest, causing the boy to subtly sweat in nervousness. "What would happen if you get cold in the middle of the night. If you come with us, we could snuggle up for the night."

The three were frozen there, staring at each other before Ruby yelled out. "DAMN IT YANG!" That broke the mood, causing Yang to let out a laugh as Jaune stepped back and sighed. "Don't listen to her Jaune, she just likes to tease people. All the time." Ruby said while glaring at Yang.

"I'll keep that in mind." Jaune said while looking wearily at Yang, who continued to laugh. Turning back to Ruby, Jaune noticed that she appeared to be down about something.

"Something the matter Ruby?"

"Hmm. Oh well Yang and I were talking to this girl named Blake." At this, Ruby gestured to the third girl from her "exploding accident". "We ended up getting into a talk about the world, and she said that life isn't like a fairy tale. I know that, but I also believe that we can make the world better. That if everyone was just nicer to each other and everyone got along, the world could be like a fairy tale."

Jaune could see the determination and hope in Ruby's eyes as she said this, and felt a ping of sadness. 'Ruby…' Sighing, Jaune began to speak. "I'm sorry to say this Ruby, but I agree with Blake on this. The world...it's a dark and cruel place. One that doesn't show mercy, and will tear you apart should you show any. It's...not the right place for your ideal."

Ruby looked at Jaune in shock before she spoke. "I...I know. But that's why the Huntsman and Huntresses are here. To make the world better for everyone!"

"Wrong." Jaune said, his voice turning cold, gaining Yang's attention as she began to focus on their conversation. "I'm sorry to say Ruby but the Huntsmen and Huntresses are knights in shining armor. We don't go around helping people for the sake of simple helping, we do it for other reasons. Everyone here-" Jaune said gesturing to the others in the room. "-they aren't here because they believe in putting others before themselves. They are here for other reasons. Defiance of others, the urge to fight, the urge to kill, the freedom of being a traveling soldier...these are reasons why people become Hunters and Huntresses. Helping people is just a part of the job. In the end, nobody here is going to make the world any better than it already is. Some may even make it worse."

Looking into Ruby's eyes- and seeing the small tears forming -Jaune sighed. "Do you want my advice Ruby. Give up on that ideal. The only thing that you will achieve with it is your own death."

'Harsh. But it needed to be said.' Jaune thought seeing Ruby's head drop and her shoulders shake. Yang stepped in upon seeing her sister cry.

"Ruby, go on back to our bags ok. I'll be there in a sec." Turning back to glare at Jaune, Yang grabbed him by his shirt collar and pulled him close. "What the hell was that for? She's fifteen you asshole! She's still a child. What warranted that kind of talk?"

Jaune knocked Yang's hands off his collar before adjusting his shirt and glaring back at the blonde haired girl. "Yang, the minute she accepted the offer to come her she stopped being a child. She's a Huntress in training and needs to realize that things in life aren't all sunshine and roses. And as her sister, you need to be a player in that. You can't protect her all the time." 'I should know.' Jaune thought while looking away.

Yang glared at him before storming away, back to Ruby. Jaune watched her go and comfort Ruby, before shaking his head. "Fools." he whispered to himself before laying down in his bag. "And with that attitude they'll soon be dead fools." Jaune closed his eyes and let sleep take him, to another night of restless sleep.

Cut! Holy crap, I think I broke my writing record. I hope you all like that chapter. For reference as to what the guns, Kanshou and Bakuya, look like, look up EMIYA Alter from Fate/Grand Order. There his weapons. Hope you guys like this chapter, and some of the changes.

CosmicDragon98, signing out.