Here's another fanfic for all you out there. I got the idea from reading another fic on this site, but here's my take on the idea. Little backstory to set the stage: After initiation, once Jaune finds out who Weiss is (i.e. daughter of Jacque Schnee) he abandons his pursuit of her and treats her with cold professionalism. PS, I am looking for some help in writing fight scenes, if anyone wants to help, please let me know. So, let the journey begin.

Chapter 1: A Reunion of Siblings.

The sun was shining bright in the skies of Vale as the two most prominent freshmen teams attending Beacon Academy stood in the streets. The first team was comprised of four teenage girls, the second of two more teenage girls and two teenage boys. Currently the 8 students had stopped in front a Dust store called 'Dust til Dawn', with two members of the first team, Team RWBY, arguing.

"Stop calling him a degenerate! Stop calling him a criminal! He's a person!" Blake Belladonna yelled at her teammate, a young girl dressed in white, named Weiss Schnee.

"I'm sorry, do you want me to stop calling this trash can a trash can? Or this lamppost a lamppost?" Weiss yelled back.

Off to the side, the other members of the teams looked on awkwardly as the two girls continued to argue. "This is...awkward." Ruby Rose, leader of Team RWBY, remarked as the others nodded.

"As much as I'd hate to get involved, I can understand where Blake is coming from." said Jaune Arc, leader of Team JNPR.

"Agreed." Lie Ren said, with his teammates Nora Valkyrie and Pyrrha Nikos nodding along with him.

"Anyways, we should probably take them back to Beacon." Yang Xiao Long said as she watched the argument heat up. The others agreed and proceed to drag the two girls back to Beacon.

(Scene Change)

(Team RWBY Dorm Room)

"They've been arguing for 3 hours." Ren said in slight amazement, as both teams were now at the dorms of Team RWBY, where Blake and Weiss continued to argue.

"Do you want to know why I hate the White Fang? Why I don't particularly like or trust the Faunus." Weiss said as she walked over to the window and looked out at the shattered moon. "It's because I spent my whole life being hunted by them. They took the fight to my family, my company, and it got very bloody. We had bored members disappearing, Dust shipments vanishing. Almost every day, my father would come home furious. It made for very uncomfortable home life."

Jaune's head jerked up at that. He had never been particularly close to Weiss, given who her father was and the actions of her family's business against his family, but in that moment he felt a kindred spirit in her. Unconsciously he clenched his hands and felt the scars on his back tingle.

'Get over here brat! Time to teach you a lesson'

Jaune unclenched and re-clenched his hands multiple times in order to get rid of the memories that threatened to overtake him. Focusing back on the argument, Jaune, along with the rest of the room, was startled by Blake's next statement.

"Well maybe we were tired of being pushed around!"

Time seemed to freeze for the 8 students as 7 of them stared at Blake in shock. Blake herself froze with a look of fear, before bolting out the open window and down into the courtyard.

"Blake!" Yang shouted moving towards the window. But when she looked out, she saw no one. "Blake!"

Ruby moved to her sister's side and began to call out as well, while just looked out the window in disgust. Team JNPR simply froze, not knowing what to do.

Ruby turned back to them with a determined look on her face. "We have to go find her and bring her back."

Jaune nodded in agreement. "Yeah, but it'd be best if we wait till tomorrow. It's late, all the Bullheads stopped transferring from here to Vale, and if Glynda catches us, we'd be done for."

"Jaune-Jaune's right." Nora said. "But tomorrow, we'll find her. And if anyone hurts her-" Nora brought out Magnhild, holding the hammer high above her. "we'll break their legs!"

"Do whatever pleases you. I, for one, am not going." Weiss said before sitting down and crossing her legs. "I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm not interested in the well being of a liar and a-"

"Get off your high horse Schnee." Jaune spoke in a voice like ice. The others looked at him, stunned. Sure, they knew that Jaune had stopped flirting with Weiss after finding out her last name, and they knew that he acted kinda stiff with her afterwards, but they never expected this to happen.

"Excuse me? I will not be spoken to like from some simple-minded buffon who can hardly hold his sword! If you ask me, Blake should have taken you as well! It would be nice not to have an embarrassment such as yourself here!"

Jaune leapt to his feet a mask of anger on his face. In the back of his mind, all he heard was that voice. His voice. 'Why don't you just beat it you little punk! Disgrace and embarrassment to my family!'

"Jaune wait!" Pyrrha said, trying to placate her leader and partner. Jaune simply shrugged off her hand, before turning around and storming out.

Pyrrha, Ren, Nora, and Ruby looked on in shock, while Weiss had a mildly pleased look on her face. Yang was still by the window, but if anyone was paying attention to her, one could see that the paneling of the window was beginning to crack under the pressure of her hands.

"Hmph! Good riddance to a-" Whatever derogatory words Weiss was about to say was cut off by Pyrrha, who had grabbed by the collar of her dress. Looking into Pyrrha's eyes, Weiss saw neither the kind green eyes of her friend or the determined gaze of the champion, but raw, unbridled anger. As she looked into Pyrrha's eyes, Weiss was reminded of her many encounters with the Grimm, the look of utter loathing in those eyes matching the ones before her. Ren broke the silence by speaking.

"We are going to find our leader. I don't know what will happen after that." Turning to Ruby, Ren continued speaking. "We'll help you find Blake, as she is our friend as well, but after that it'll be up to Jaune about whether or not our teams stay friends. We put up with a lot from your partner Ruby, but this was the last straw." Grabbing Pyrrha, Ren pulled her away from Weiss, who dropped down to the floor. The remaining members of Team JNPR walked out the door towards their room, none of them looking back.

The remainder of Team RWBY stood in silence for several moments before Yang turned around, her own glare on her face. "Good going Weiss. You managed to alienate almost all of your potential friends, along with a member of our team. I really hope keeping that high and mighty attitude of yours was worth it." Weiss flinched at the tone. Yang's anger was usually explosive and wild. But this...this was measured, controlled. And it scared Weiss to death.

The members of Team RWBY began to get dressed for bed, before turning off the lights and laying down. None of them slept a wink.

(Time Skip)

(The Next Day)

The remaining members of Team RWBY ate breakfast in silence, the events of the previous day still fresh in their minds. Ruby and Yang kept looking towards the door, hoping that Blake or Team JNPR would come through them, and everything would go back to the way things were before. Weiss just looked down at her food, not eating. The silence was broken by Ruby's Scroll going off, causing the girls to jump slightly in their seats. Ruby quickly grabbed it before answering the call.

"Pyrrha! How are...ok...right...I'll tell them." Sighing Ruby put down her Scroll before speaking.

"Team JNPR has already begun looking for Blake. Jaune came up with a plan to split into two groups and look. Group A is me, Yang, Jaune, and Ren. Group B is Pyrrha, Nora, and Weiss. We'll meet them in Vale after we finish eating." Yang nodded satisfied with the plan. Weiss on the other hand.

"Ruby...Do i have to go with them?"

Yang rounded on her, eyes red and hair beginning to stand on end. "You don't have a choice Weiss. You're going to look for Blake, and you're going to help! End of discussion."

To Weiss's credit, she didn't flinch while Yang glared at her, instead looking her straight in the eyes. "That's not the problem. The problem is me going with Pyrrha and Nora, especially after...last night. They won't want me around and they made it very clear that they don't want to be my friend. Perhaps I should go on my own?"

"Nope."

The two girls looked at their leader, who was giving Weiss a sympathetic smile. "Weiss, this is a good opportunity for you to start repairing things between yourself and Team JNPR. They are our friends, and while your words may have hurt Jaune, I know that they can forgive you for them. You're not a bad person Weiss, you just made a mistake. One that I know you are strong enough to fix."

Weiss smiled, touched that her leader- her friend - believed in her, while Yang was also impressed her little sister's attitude and maturity.

"Plus, we need to get on Jaune's good side again. He makes the best chocolate chip cookies, and it would be a travesty if he stopped."

The two face-palmed at that before shaking their heads. 'Ruby will be Ruby.' They thought with amusement. Yang stood up with her fist raised in a triumphant manner before speaking.

"Alright, let's go find our friend."

(Time Skip)

(Later that evening in Vale)

The group of Ruby, Yang, Jaune, and Ren all sat in stools in a ramen booth in Vale, slumped over from exhaustion, with the air of failure around them.

"We looked all day, and we still haven't found a trace of Blake." Yang said with her head in her hands. "Where could she be?"

"The possibility does exist that she simply left Vale." Ren said while slurping on his noodles. "She may have feared that we would inform the professors or the police, and simply thought it better if she left the city."

"No way! She knows we wouldn't turn her in!" Yang said with a slight touch of anger.

While Ren and Yang continued to throw out ideas, Jaune and Ruby were thinking very similar thoughts. Looking at each other, the two realized that they had come to the same conclusion.

"Guys, I think Ruby and I have an idea." Jaune said, interrupting the current stream of ideas from the Brawler and the Ninja. "Remember yesterday, how Blake denied that the White Fang would need so much Dust, and that there was no way that they were behind the robberies."

"Right. And I would think that Blake wants to believe that that is the truth. It's possible that she's going to find the White Fang, and see if they really are behind this." Ruby added on.

Ren's eyes widened as he came to a realization. "The shipping yard." Seeing the looks from the others, Ren continued to explain. "The shipping yard is where the Schnee Dust Corporation and others send their Dust to Vale. That would be the easiest place to go to."

Getting up, the group ran out the vendor towards the shipping yard. They had a friend to find.

(Time Skip)

(Vale Shipping Yard)

The moon shone down on a young adult who was wearing a white suit with a black bowler hat sitting on his head. In his right hand, the man carried a cane, which he twirled with impatience, gesturing with his left. "Come on you animals! Get a move on!"

On top of a nearby crate, two figures peaked out to look at the scene below. "This isn't happening." Blake said as she watched the White Fang taking orders from a human.

"Hmm. What's the big deal? Don't the White Fang steal Dust all the time?" The figure next to her asked. This was Sun Wukong, a Monkey Faunus from Vacou, and the petty thief from the previous day.

"The deal is that the White Fang would never take orders from a human. Especially scum like him."

"Oh."

The two sat, watching for a few more minutes before Blake stood up.

"Uhmm Blake."

"What! He needs to be stopped and the White Fang need to be reasoned with!"

"That's not it."

"Blake turned to see Sun looking behind them. "Then what is…" Blake began but drifted off after she too turned around and saw her team leader, Ruby, standing there with Lie Ren, and Penny Polendina.

"Ruby…" Blake said, taking a step back in shock.

"Blake. It's ok. We can talk later. Right now, I agree with you that we need to take down Torchwick and the Fang. But you can't do it alone. You won't be alone. You have us." Ruby said gesturing to herself and Ren, who nodded. "Jaune and Yang are below getting ready to do their part. But we have to do ours as well, and we need you to trust us. Can you?" By the end of her speech, Ruby had extended her hand to Blake, who looked at it and back to Ruby, contemplating.

"You guys aren't by yourselves." Sun said standing up. "I'm here to."

"Myself as well." Penny said while smiling. "I'm combat ready."

Blake looked around at everyone and a small smile graced her face as she thought of the support being showed. "Alright. What's the plan?" She said taking Ruby's hand. Ruby simply smiled before unfolding Crescent Rose.

(Scene Change)

(With Yang and Jaune)

"You sure this plan will work Vomit Boy?" Yang questioned as she and Jaune peeked out from behind a crate and looked at the assembled White Fang members. "Vomit Boy? Jaune?"

Jaune was zoned out as he looked at the man in white. 'Is that...it can't be. But that cane...No! It's not him!'

Jaune was taken from his thoughts by Yang shaking him back and forth. "Yang, please stop. I'm gonna…" Jaune quickly threw a hand over his mouth and turned his head, while Yang jumped back, desperate to avoid the possibility of the return of Vomit Boy. Unfortunately…

"Hey look!"

Yang looked up to see that she had jumped into full view of some of the White Fang grunts, all of whom saw her. Yang froze as she looked at the various members, who looked back at her. One of the brave ones held up a blood red sword and pointed it at her.

"Let's get her!"

The mooks charged at Yang, who deployed her gauntlets, Ember Celica, and raised her fists. The first mook charged with a wild overhead swing, which Yang blocked, before delivering a haymaker to the man's chest, the added explosion propelling the man back into one of his friends. Another two mooks charged, each going from the side. The one on the left swung low while the other swung high. Yang simply raised her left arm, the gauntlet intercepting the blade, while simultaneously raising her right leg, extending the foot, in order to redirect the blade of Mook #2. Said mook stumbled back, only to collapse as Jaune drove the pointy end of his shield into the man's neck. A crack was heard as the man dropped, his head leaning to the side. Jaune looked at Yang, who had knocked her opponent into a crate, knocking him out. The two looked up to see the man in white engaging Ruby, Blake, Ren, and the monkey Faunus in combat, while Penny was dealing with two more airships.

"We need to help them!" Yang exclaimed as she and Jaune began to run towards the others, only to stop as the remaining White Fang members, around 10 in total, circled them. Yang adopted her combat stance while Jaune raised his sword and shield in front of him.

(With Ruby and co.)

'So Jaune's plan went to hell faster than I thought it would.' Blake thought as she flipped over Torchwick's head while firing Gambol Shroud at him from above. The man countered by swinging his cane over his head, then bringing it in an arc, slamming it into Blake's sword, the impact causing Blake to fly further then she anticipated.

Sun came in next, swinging his nunchucks around while firing the flintlock attachment on both of them. Torchwick expertly maneuvered his cane to block all of them, before reaching out with the cane and snagging Sun's arm. Quickly twisting the boy around while extending his leg, Torchwick caused Sun to fly into Ren, who was attempting to attack Roman from behind. Turning to the last member of the foursome, Roman smirked.

"Well, well, well Red, looks like I'm all out of dance partners. Care to be mine?"

(With Jaune and Yang)

"Man, these guys are stubborn" Yang said casually as she grabbed a mooks arm, before lifting him above her head and throwing him at two other members.

Jaune chose not to reply, as he was more focused on blocking the attacks of the Fang members, and redirecting them to hit each other. He'd only been given proper training with Crocea Mors by Pyrrha for a few weeks, not enough time to learn how to handle so many opponents by going on the offensive. Jumping back, Jaune maneuvered behind Yang, putting her in the way of the White Fangers he was fighting. Taking a quick break, Jaune looked towards Ruby and her group, seeing Ren, Blake, and the monkey Fanus on the ground, with the man in white approaching Ruby while twirling his cane.

"Damn it." Jaune muttered under his breath. Quickly looking around, Jaune noticed that most of the mooks were unconscious or working on getting onto unsteady feet. "Yang!" Jaune said, spinning around to see her having dealt with the three mooks he had been fighting.

"Yeah Jaune. Talk quick, these guys are persistent."

"I need you to throw me at that guy." Jaune said pointing at the man in white, who was currently bashing a fallen Ruby with his cane.

"Hell no! That's my baby sister he's hurting! I'll go and kick his ass real quick-"

"Yang!" Jaune yelled cutting her off. "You need to deal with these guys! I'm not good enough to deal with all of them by myself. At the least I can get that guy's attention off of Ruby and at most I can give the others time to recover!"

Yang ground her teeth in frustration, mostly because Jaune was right. Quickly grabbing him by the collar and the waistband of his jeans, she spun once, before throwing the Knight in the direction of Ruby's assaulter, firing her gauntlets for a little extra power. Turning back to the recovering White Fang members, Yang cracked her knuckles and looked at them, growling. One of the Fang members said the immortal words of many a doomed man.

"I think we fucked up."

(With Jaune)

'Oh shit!' Jaune thought as he flew towards the man in white. 'Why did she use the gauntlets? WHY?'

As Jaune closed in on the man in white, he quickly spread his arms, hoping that Yang's aim was good enough. Lucky for the Knight, the Brawler's aim was true, and he felt his shoulder collide with the man's lower back. The momentum from the flying Arc carried the man off his feet and onto the ground, with Jaune not to far behind. Jaune quickly rolled to his feet, bringing up his shield to cover his face, awaiting the inevitable impact.

'Why isn't he hitting me?' Jaune thought before looking over the edge of his shield. What he saw caused him to drop his shield and stand in place, frozen. 'Impossible…' The man in front of him had lost his hat, revealing a shock of orange hair that dropped down over his right eye. Said man was also staring at Jaune in shock, his mouth wide open. The two stared at each other for what seemed like an eternity, before the man lowered his gaze and dropped to pick up his falled hat. Quickly turning around, the man ran for the remaining Bullhead, quickly leading onto it. The aircraft quickly pulled away from the dock, leaving the remaining Fang members there, along with the students.

Throughout all of this, Jaune starred at the spot the man had stood in shock. Ren slowly approached Jaune, limping at the damage he had sustained. Putting a hand on his friend's shoulder, Ren spoke quietly. "Jaune are you hurt?"

"I...I'm fine Ren...I…" Jaune stammered, his eyes wet with unshed tears.

"You don't sound fine. What did Torchwick do to you?"

Jaune let out a dry, humorless laugh at that. "So that...that really was him."

Blake came next, being half carried by Sun, with Yang carrying Ruby on her back coming from behind her. Blake's eyes were alight with anger. "Yes, that was Roman Torchwick! And you let him get away!"

Tears were now falling freely from Jaune's eyes, causing Ren, Ruby and Yang to worry. "I...couldn't stop him."

"You didn't even try! Why? Why would let that monster get away?"

Jaune wiped his eyes on his sleeve before speaking up again. "I...couldn't fight him Blake. I'm sorry, but I can't." Standing up, Jaune began to quickly walk away, breaking out into a run, ignoring Ruby and Ren's calls for him to stop.

'I can't fight my own brother.'

Chapter done. And I am pretty sure that I broke my record. Hope you guys like this first chapter. It took a while to write, and I was sick and on meds for part of it. So if parts of it sound like it was written by a drugged up crazy man...well it kinda was. Aside from that, hope you liked it. Finally, I am thinking about giving Jaune a new weapon set. Either Razor Wire Gloves (think Walter from Hellsing Ultimate), Black Keys (Kirei Kotomine from Fate/Stay Night) or Chakrams with Fire Dust (Axel from Kingdom Hearts). Let me know which one you all would like, or simply say that you would prefer Jaune keep his sword and shield.

CosmicDragon98 signing out.