AN: Here it is! The fic to replace endangered Species! This is my newest series so stick around! This one's about how Qrow after an apparent act of kindness ended dating a rather stubborn woman and having a kid with her and the ups and downs of Qrow's unique and often lackluster approach to parenting as Jaune Branwen begins!

Pain.
"AHH!"
Qrow screamed out loud as a burning lancing pain pierced his arm as the man cried out. The sound of splitting flesh and burning meat filled the air as Qrow grunted in pain. As a decent amount of his body was ripped out as he screamed as a burning lancing agony filled his body as he spat on the cold misty grass as his vision went dim as he tasted blood in his mouth.
"Qrow, you look hurt!"
A beautiful mocking voice said as Qrow growled. Gritting his teeth and with a herculean effort, fighting past a wave on nausea raised his head up to see a pair of searing golden eyes that shimmered with a palpable malice and spite. As a gorgeous woman dressed in all red walked in front of him, twin onyx black scimitars that where flaming in hand as the broken moon illuminated the devil in human flesh's form. As Cinder smiled beatifically at Qrow's wounded form.
"Qrow-
"Bitch."
Fist!
"AH!"
Qrow cried as another flaming spear appeared in mid-air shooting forward and tore his side apart as he screamed in pain as his flesh was split from his bone and the sound of burning fat filled the air.
"My that was rather rude, didn't your mother ever tell you how to talk to a woman?"
Cinder asked her voice cooing in a mocking smug tone making Qrow growl at the woman as her voice burned with anger as Qrow spat a wad of blood on her face.
"Phatah!"
Qrow's bloody spit hit Cinders face as her mocking serene glare left her face as she seethed at him.
"You will die for that."

Cinder said in an irritated voice to bothering to wipe his blood off as her cheat began to glow orange as the blood was singed off turning into a fine red mist with a harsh hiss! As she burned off the liquid.
"I was already dead.'

Qrow said giving a low chuckle as he coughed up a thin line of blood as a perfectly manicured hand reached under his chin cupping up his head as she smiled.
"Yes, but now you will suffer."
Cinder said as she took a flaming scimitar from her dress, raising it above her head and-
"Dad!"
"Jaune?"
Qrow thought as his son's voice filled his ears right before the flaming weapon sliced down on his throat splitting it up and over as a smile filled his face.
Fisht! The sound of metal cutting flesh and burning meat filled the air as Qrow gasped.

"So... this is it? This is how ole Qrow dies? Well... I can't say it was a bad life, not a great one! Mind you, I was sober far too many times then I would have liked, but it was good.' Qrow thought as his vision went dark and the world faded to black a woman chuckled as a scream filled the air along with the sound of more tearing flesh and cooking meat the man smiled as he remembered the sad long and obscure life story what was his.

"Fool!"
"Ass!"
"Jerk!"
"Idiot!"
"DIrty old bird!"
"Stuck up brat!"
"Old bastard!"
A pair of burning red eyes yelled as Azure Arc screamed at Qrow. The beautiful black sheep of the Arc family yelling at him with all of her might, as she screamed at her lover.
"Old?! Old!? You're calling me old!? You are older than me! In case you forgot Arc!"
Qrow yelled incredulously at the top of his lungs as the spoiled brat Azure glared daggers at him, her burning red eyes glowed like hot coals in her sockets shook with rage as her beautiful pale face twisted into an ugly feral snarl that did nothing to obfuscate her beauty as she smashed her foot on the ground. "I know how to count you dumb bird!" Azure yelled point one of her insanely thing finger accusatorily to the man as Qrow chuckled.
"Yeah, that's why you ran away from home without any lien right?"
Qrow poked fun at the woman's less than inspired original escape plan making her fume as she smashed her foot on the ground.

"You are one to talk! When was the last time you stopped drinking into the double digits!? When did you ever stop a shot take in the single numbers!?"
"Never. I can have fun."
Qrow mocked as the woman glared flashing her fists to her sides.
"You dick!"
"You whore!"
"Fuck you!"
"Back at you!"
Qrow yelled as both adults glared pure death at each other before-
MPPPHH!
Instantly flesh met lisp as Azure's face was in his as Qrow wrapped his long well-muscled arms aroudn the thin waist of his on again off again lovers form. As Azure crashed into Qrows body, sealing their lips in a vacuum seal embrace as Qrow lifted her oof the ground and pinned her to a wall of ht dust barn they where arguing around as her legs wrapped aroudn his waist pulling him close to her as their clothes came off...

Qrow met Azure, love of his life and the bane of his existence in the way that most women in his life did. Cold, alone dying and about to become a snack for Grimm. The then spoiled Arc girl had recently run away from her cushy home in Ansel, the young woman was not satisfied with her comfy college life and eager to get out of her secluded family bubble see the world for it really was!

Only to be like so many other wander seekers to be reminded that the world was not a very forgiving place, nor was it a place for the foolish, as she was beset by Grimm. Surrounded, cut off injured and about to be turned into lunch when Qrow arrived. Qrow came in like a dark night, a blaze of silver and black as he and his custom scyther Harbringer tore apart the Grimm like they were made of tissue. His scythe ripping them apart in bright plums of blood and bone as he butchered his way through the Grimm horde as he saved the dying woman who had the worst!

Case of love, at first sight, he had ever seen as the downed admittedly beautifully woman looked up at Qrow in awe. Her burning red eyes an anomaly in her bloodline fixed on him with a pure hero worship. As her torn, expensive blue cloth and armor hung over her alluring frame, made even better by the moonlight.
As Qrow bowed to the woman taking in her every gentle curve and bump on her body saying that he was just doing his job before walking away bent on going his merry wave having saved a beautiful woman and-
"Wait! You can't leave me!"
Azure screamed at the top of her lungs as soon as he began to walk away from her down form. As Qrow sighed as the woman gave him the worst case of puppy dog eyes he had ever seen. Seriously! Not even Summer was this bad Qrow thought as he rubbed his head and sighed. Putting away his scythe Harbringer along with years of bandit training and instincts as he did the one thing he never did. He offered his hand.

Qrow offered for a reasonable fee to take the woman as far as the nearest town to put her ass on a Bullhead back to Ansel before she got herself hurt, or worse and maybe! Get a hefty bounty from her family in the process, after all the Arc's as she clearly was where one of the most if not the most influential families in Remnant. And that made them have money and money paid for liquor the man though evily as Qrow tasted a payday to rival all others approaching as Azure bowed her head rapidly to him as Qrow picked her up.

Dusting the scared woman off noting that besides being beautiful her weapons a longsword and shield with the name Crocea Mors written on it was an excellent weapon. Maybe he could pawn it off if they all went belly up and the Arc's thought he kidnapped their daughter instead of saving her and he ended up running or flying his ass away from Anzel tail between his legs. But that was just a possibility!
More than likely the Arc's would be over the moon that their child was returned safe and unharmed to them, and they would graciously thank him for his assistance with a generous amount of lien in the process, and he could go on his merry way richer than most people would ever be and walk off smiling into the sunset.
Needless to say, that did not happen, in fact not only did he not get paid they never even made it back to Ansel, hell they never even got close.

Azure was a stubborn woman. She had more willpower than Qrow had expected and was shockingly stalwart when it came to defending her life choices and even when they were stupid! Life choices she fought and argued Qrow down so completely and utterly silencing his points that Qrow swore! She might have been a clone of Summer. As none but, his partner had silenced him with such ease before, and no one but Summer had taken his breath away.
Azure was gorgeous in a way Qrow had never seen before.

She was tall for a woman nearly six feet with a thin hourglass figure, along with well-built arms with a slim amount of muscles on them. And a type of ethereal curve to her hips that stole his eyes every waking moment. She was a goddess to him, a piece of the divine made flesh which was not only perfect! In every physical way but in the mind as well.

Azure had a body to kill for and a burning desire to not just become better but to be great, that threatened to become a raging inferno and consume her. Azure had one goal and one goal only, to become the greatest huntress ever or die in the process. And she had no intention of going back home no matter how hard Qrow tired to convince her to as after months!

Of pointless arguing, trying to get the rich girl to go home before she died, Qrow decided to cut his losses and living Grimm bait, as he swore! His semblance went into overdrive with Azure as every, single, Beowulf, Ursa, Deathstalker, and Creep found them.
Every. Single. Day. Was a bitter fight for survival as the Grimm seemed to be locked on to their position like a damn seeker missile as Qrow was forced to fight off a horde of Grimm slaughtering any who came with a practiced ease for the first week. But after a month? Of constant relentless assaults by hordes of Grimm Qrow was burnt out, and the woman goddess or not needed to go now.

As Qrow finally! Broke down and bought her a ride to a bullhead dock as he paid for her ticket home and told her it was nothing personal but he liked to breathe more than he wanted to get paid. And she was a five-eleven totem of bad luck as he bid Azure goodbye and went his own way, or he would of if Azure was not only more stubborn that Summer when she got an idea she was also madly in love with him.
If Qrow looked at Azure as a goddess, she looked at him like a hero. Qrow was everything she ever wanted to be! He was a rogue! Qrow did what he wanted to do! He traveled wherever the hell he wanted to go! Taking out Grimm by the dozens, fighting off bandits, saving people in distress like her and doing most of it hungover!
Azure never liked to drink, she had no stomach for liquor like Qrow did, but her father and more importantly her mother hated it, so anyone who drank was a hero in her eyes. And Qrow? Qrow liked to drink, almost as much as he would like for Azure to go home but that never happened.
As the woman stubbornly refused to leave Qrows side, even after he sprinted away from her in the town. Intent on leaving the girl in the dust and more importantly in a town that would not kill and her she would be eventually recognized and taken home ridding him of his extra bad luck charm killing two birds with one stone.

Or it would have worked, but being as stubborn as she was Azure followed him. Never giving up the damn Arc stamina even breaking his own, as after a week! Of trying to leave the woman in the dust and a week! Of Azure following him, doggedly pushing across, forests, hills, mountains, and lakes, tracking him like a hound, Qrow decided that if he could not leave her he might as well use her. As he accepted the fact that he had earned himself a loyal follower and he might as well get used to her...

Azure was not all bad. I mean sure, she couldn't cook, clean, hunt, skin, or track for a damn but she did! Have a sword and shield, and seeing how having only one of them knowing how to fight was a disaster waiting to happen Qrow demanded that if she was his follower she needed to learn to fight, he was tired of defending her all the time and demanded that she learn to fight or she leave.

An offer she accepted with gust as Qrow grinned seeing an easy way for him to get rid of a pest as he began to train her.
Much. To his displeasure, Azure was a damn natural. She picked up on every combat style he threw at her like he hit on waitresses. Effortlessly adapting to almost any training method, he taught her, no matter how varied or how exotic, it may be and in the span of two short years of constant training and cohabitation had become a formidable warrior that not even he would want to fight.

A fact that did nothing but bond the two as Azure's hero worship turned to genuine romance for a dashing rogue! That was as noble as he was strong! And hid his true kindness under a blunt cynical attitude and a small lake of hard liquor And Qrow...

Well, he always liked a woman who could kick his ass, started to after much resistance finally return the feelings as a relationship of sorts began.
This was not a perfect union nothing with Qrow was ever perfect, as over the years Azure had unfortunately picked up on a shocking amount of Qrows habits, all of them bad, mainly his rampant alcoholism, pessimism, a cynical worldview along with a mouth so foul it could strip the paint off a boat.

As the girl who before could not even say hell, without yelling sorry! now spoke with a mouth so filthy and rancid it would make a Mistral sailor go deaf as the two argued, fought, had sex, argued, tried to kill one another, and screamed at themselves, repeating this process for over five years as they made their way across Remnant.

Their chaotic relationship came to a close as one day a fight went too far words where said that neither side meat and they to split up. Qrow didn't see Azure again after that, as almost a year passed before Qrow got a scrolling message from her demanding he come to see her at a town all the way in the ass end of Vacuo. Giving him no other reason or justification for traveling halfway around the world other than her usual threat to be there or else as Qrow sighed.

Maybe Azure wanted him back? Perhaps if he played his cards right then they would be back together again by tomorrow? Qrow thought as he made a continent-spanning journey in a matter of days thanks to his bird form, as he flew across the land he briefly pondered why if Azure was such an irritation to him then why the hell did he not just run from her like this in the beginning?
Before pushing such thoughts to the back of his head. If he left Azure then who would have kept his drunk ass company for five years? He thought as Qrow flew across the forests of Vale neatly avoiding Patch until finally reaching the wastes of Vacuo, he was more than shocked to find that the address that the scroll provided for him was a hospital?

As he landed, at Vacuo General, a surprisingly well lit and well-made hospital for the country that often had problems keeping the lights on for most of its citizens. Qrow shrugged the thoughts off as a hospital was probably high up on what counted as the nation's government on places that needed power. As he walked into the well-lit room he showed a nurse a fox faunus with a wonderfully tight nursing outfit the text as she gasped and rushed him inside.

Where Qrow was taken to the nursery? Of all places as the nurse showed him to a center ails of sleeping baby's cribs where a baby boy, with soft blonde hair and deep crimson eyes, named Jaune laid. At first, Qrow had no idea why the hell the nurse brought him there. So what? A kid was born how did that make this any of Qrow's concern? An answer that the nurse rectified simply by telling him that was his son.

Qrow felt like a sledgehammer hit his chest. As all air left his body, his hands became slick with sweat as a cold hand gripped his heart as he looked at the comfy baby wrapped in a soft blanket. He had a kid!? He had a kid!? He! Qrow Branwen! Bandit legend! Infamous ladies man! Anit hero supreme! And now father!?
Qrow demanded to speak to Azure. He needed to ask why the hell she didn't tell him hey had a kid as-
His words died on his mouth as the nurse frowned as she put a hand on his shoulder and told him the truth. Azure was dead. She was ambushed by Grimm on the way to deliver the baby, and by the time she got there, it was too late.

The doctors had to perform an emergency C section to get Jaune out alive, and the woman only lasted long enough to give him a name Jaune before dying. That was when the doctors discovered instructions written in the dead women scroll inscribed by a previously still alive Azure. With a picture and instructions on it that the man with his face and name Qrow Branwen was the babies father and to give that child to him. A task the hospital readily did as Vacuo did not need another damn orphan in their country as the baby was allowed to say tow more days in the nursery before being tossed almost literally into his arms and they were both kicked out of the door into the wastes. As Qrow balked as his world collapsed as he looked at the softly breathing lump of cloth in a plastic box. He had a son...

"Ok, Jaune! What are the rules again?" Qrow asked his son as they sat on a tree branch. It was near high noon in the Vale forests, not that you could tell with the sky blotted out by a thick grey fog as the father and son bandit duo sat in waiting.
"Never tell the truth! Always lie! Women are only as good as their skirt length, shorter the better and! The only unfair fight is one you lose!"
Jaune said warmly practically bobbing on the balls of his feet. Shaking the tree branch they were perched on as the four-year-old child smiled brightly as his blood red eyes look on at his father as Qrow smiled.
"Good boy! Now let's get paid!"
Qrow said as the target passed beneath them as he and Jaune nodded as the caravan of soon to be dead white Fang walked under them as Qrow drew Harbinger and Jaune took our Cocea Mors as their ambush began as they dropped onto the blissfully aware and soon to not be breathing White Fang...

"AHH!"
A man screamed as Qrow split him in two killing in an instantly ending his life in a shower of blood as he laned on an unaware Fang member. Killing him in a moment covering him in blood as Jaune fell on another man stabbing Croce Mors in-between his neck slicing his throat out and killing him with a wet slick!
As the boy rode the dead man to the ground leaping off him deflecting a half of wild gunfire with his arm rolling out of the way as Qrow blasted him in half with his cannon. Sending the man into bloody confetti as Jaune smiled.
"That's my boy!"
Qrow yelled proudly as flashed out against the Fang regaining their wits, stabbing and shooting those that opposed them as he smiled. The Fang proved no challenge, not that he thought they would. Qrow butchered the ones that got in his way with contemptuous ease. Using Harbinger like an artist uses a paintbrush and the Fang were his paints and the world his canvas.
Fisht!
Schlert!
Blood flew everywhere as Qrow butchered any who stood in his way, with an artistic flare Harbinger flying up at blurring speeds as he killed and slaughtered his way past the fang as-
Bang!
Three bullets shot out as Jaune was shot three times in his chest. His aura flashed blue as he took the bullets square in his chest falling to the ground and rolling with the hits as he rolled on the grass, not wasting a moment. Rolling onto the feet of the man who had shot him. Slashing out his sword to slice at the man's ankles. Slicing them apart, making the man yelled as he fell to the ground only for Jaune to put his sword through his neck killing him in a moment.
"That's my boy!"
Qrow said as the small child in dark combat fatigues smiled warmly at his father. The dark leather armor that kept him safe if his aura and shield failed was dented and pitted in some areas as Jaune frowned, wiping the blood from his mother sword as Qrow smiled. Bang!
A bullet shot Jaune in the head sending him crashing into the forest floor with a long groan as Qrow grinned.
"Pay attention kiddo! Or you might just end up dead!"
Qrow yelled his son flipping him off groaning in pain as he and Qrow leaped back into the fray as they butchered the Fang.

"Dad! Can I have some alcohol?"
Jaune asked his father as he pilfered lien form a dead man's body. Searching and stripping the corps of anything valuable as Qrow balked.
"Jaune! What did I say about you drinking!?"
"Only if I have my sippy cup!"
"Damn right! And make sure you mix in some milk with it so you don't get hurt ok?"

"Ok, dad."

"Good! I can't be a bad influence now can I?"

Qrow asked as he took what little lien was left form the dead Fang in front of him, as Jaune mixed and drank his drink. As the two had butchered the Fang caravan earing a hefty but costly paycheck in the process as Qrow sighed heavily. Taking then giving his son his sippy cup of whiskey putting an extra! Amount of liquor in it as Qrow put down the dead man's lien as he sighed.
"Jaune. I need to talk to you."
"Yes, dad?" Jaune asked red eyes wide with curiosity his face still stained with blood as Qrow sighed.
"Jaune.. you need to go away for a while...

Qrow said avoiding his son's eyes as Jaune cocked his head.
"Go away... where am I going?"
"You... you are going to go live with your aunt...

"I'm lost!" Ruby said whining out loud as the four-year-old girl whined in public. Trudging through the busy Patch marketplace lost and confused as she wandered around her island home of Patch. This was the worst case for Ruby! Not only had she been finally! Trusted to got out to do some light grocery shopping without an adult or sisterly superiors by her family! She had gotten lost! She didn't get the right food and-
"AH!"
Ruby cried as she bumped into someone as the girl fell on her back, bruising her leg and making her whimper as she looked up.
"Hey!-
"I'm sorry! I didn't see you!" A boy with blonde hair and red eyes wearing some type of patched leather armor? Said as he reached out a hand and helped Ruby up to her feet as she sniffled.
"Thank you. My name is Ruby Rose. N- nice to meet you."

The girl wearing a light red shirt and a short crimson skirt with several pink flowers embroidered on it said. Remembering how her mother told her to be polite to strangers as Jaune smiled.
"I'm Jaune Branwen-
"Branwen? My aunt is called that."
"Is her name Raven!?"
"Yes!"
"Do you know where I live?!" Ruby asked as Jaune blinked owlishly at her.
"Maybe? I have a map is this your house?"

Jaune said showing Ruby the rough bruised liquor stained drawing that Qrow had given him as she gasped.
"Yes!"
"Great! let's go together!" Jaune said as both he and Ruby begna to walk to thier home...

Ruby was happy, no she was bursting! With joy as she held hands with the boy she just ran into in her hometown. The boy Jaune was apparently the nephew of her aunt Raven and that meant that he was her family! And Ruby loved her family. As she and Jaune walked hand in hand to thier Patch home as they followed their map. Jaune was smiling knowing that Ruby was a good person for A. She was nice. And B. She had a short skirt and like his dad said, the shorter a woman's skirt the better she was! And Ruby was definitely a good girl.

"So you are Aunt Raven's nephew?"
Ruby asked as she looked up to the boy in black leather armor? It looked like as Jaune wore something that would not be out of place on her Aunt's body as Jaune nodded to her.
"Yeah! I'm her brother's son, so she's my aunt! I think that's how it works, right?"
Jaune asked as he scratched his chin, not sure how the family worked or how his aunt would react to him showing up as he and Ruby made ther way up the gravel dirt road walking through the tall trees of Patch on another dreary overcast day as they walked to her house. The two walking hand in hand on the dull overcast Patch day as the children moved through the forest.
"So you must be uncle Qrow's son!"
Ruby said practically squealing as she looked ready to pop!
"Yeah, he's my dad! And he's awesome!"
"Really!? I always wanted to meet him! My mom and aunt always talk about him!"
"Really? What do they say?"
Jaune asked not sure how anyone could ever have anything but positive things to say about his amazing father. Qrow was the best dad ever!
"They say he was a drunk!"
Ruby said bluntly not know the insult that Jaune did not think was an insult as he smiled.

"He is! He loves drinking, I also like it."
Jaune said as Ruby gasped!
"He lets you drink grown-up water?!"
"Sure, as long as I use my sippy cup that is."
"Your sippy cup?"
"Yeah, it's the only way I can drink liquor. As long as I have milk! Without it, it's bad for me." Jaune explained sagely as Ruby nodded solemnly, already knowing the healing powers of milk as she agreed with him. As she held the boy's hand blushing at seeing how the boy's arm muscles were ther. As she noticed that Jaune's skin was not only hard, like her own father's our Aunt's he also had three scars? On his neck that ran down his leather armor to his chest and-
"Ruby? Is this it?"
Jaune asked as the tow appears in front of a large log house as Ruby squealed.
"Yes! We made it back in time!"
Ruby said as she dragged Jaune into her hose. As Ruby pulled her new friend and cousin? Into ther door taking out the long rope necklace on her neck as she put her special! House key inot her house smiling widely as she had to reach! for the doorknob to unlock it as she let Jaune and her inside.

"Hello! I'm home!"
Ruby asked as she walked into her house as no answer came to her as she frowned. 'No one's home?"
Jaune asked walking inside instantly taking int he surrounds. The walls, floors, and ceiling were all made of brown hardwood. There were several lush carpets strewn throughout the entire house along with a smattering of furniture. Sofa's couches, chairs and a variety of love seats were scattered haphazardly in the room. Along with a tv set in the back to the living room as Jaune nodded.
"Looks like it, mom dad and Raven went out for training? Yang is with them too!" Ruby said as Jaune nodded noting that besides the window in the back the house had little entry points and was reasonably easy to defend, should they get attacked at the time.
"Yang? Who's Yang?"
"Oh! She's my big sister! And she's your sister too!" Ruby said as Jaune frowned.

"I don't think that's how it, but she sounds nice!" Jaune said as Ruby nodded.
"She's the best and oh! Do you want some cookies!?"
"Cookies?"
"Yeah! My mom says you always welcome people into your house with food so do you want some cookies?"
"Sure?"
"Great! let me get them!"
Ruby said zipping off in a shower of Red Roses?
As she ran into the kitchen leaving Jaune alone.
"Might as well sit."
He said aloud moving to a blue love seat leaping into the chair, having to clear the base of it as he sank into the plush love seat. Enjoying having a soft place to sit on that was not grass or a corpse as he rested. Sighing heavily as-
"Ruby! Did you order something?" A calm, soothing voie said as the door begna to open and-
"Hey, little sister! I'm back!"
A happy feminine younger voice said as Jaune lept out of his seat gulping.

"Ok, Jaune! Just say hi! Dad said they would love you! You are family they have to love you right?"
Jaune thought sweating nervously as he went to the door and-
Silver. A beautiful woman with long flowing black hair and sharp silver eyes paused as she froze in the doorway, holding a brown package that Jaune recognized as his own and-
"Ruby? Did you bring a friend over?"
The woman asked giving Jaune a nervous look and-
"Sis! Where are-
Another girl about Jaune sage maybe older? Walked in with long blonde hair wrapped in twin unruly ponytails, missing her front two teeth with lilac eyes walked in. Pausing as she saw Jaune for the first time freezing as-
"Who the hell is this?" The girl asked as-
"Yang! Language!"
A angry voice growled that made Jaune flinch said as an intimidating woman walked inside, glaring at the girl that looked like the nice version of her as she glared at her before looking at Jaune.
"Who are-
"Raven Branwen?"
Jaune asked noticing the same blood eyes and dark hair as his dad as the woman paused.
"Yes. That is my name child. How do you know it, and why are you in my house?"

Raven asked as Jaune gulped reaching into his pocket and pulling out a letter.

"I have this for you," Jaune said as he walked up to the woman as she cocked her head, blinking owlishly at him as Jaune gave her the tattered damp letter.
Raven took the letter deftly form his hand gasping as she recognized the Branwen family seal on the top as she opened the latter.
"Hey, Ray! It's me, Qrow. I know that we have not seen or talked with each other since... you know... but! I had a kid! Look after him for a minute while I make sure people don't kill him K? Ps. His name's Jaune. He likes chicken nuggets and takes his liquor mixed with milk. DO NOT! Let him take it straight FYI.
Raven's eye twitched, as a vein popped! On her skin as she looked at Jaune. Bending down to see at eye level as his blood red eyes, that was a dead ringer for her brothers, and her own. As she saw his short blonde hair and smelled the blood in him.
"What is your name child?"

Raven asked not believing what she was reading let alone seeing as-
"Jaune Branwen."
"Who is your father?"
"Qrow Branwen."
"What?!"
The woman in silver yelled as-
"Honeys! I'm back!"
A cheery voice said as a tall blonde man walked into the house as the looked at Jaune and coked his head.
"Oh? Did Ruby bring a friend?" The man asked as Raven pulled him to her side.
"Tai. This is Jaune." Raven said her arm trembling as she ground her teeth.
"Hey there Jaune! Name's Tai! You can call me Tai and-
"He's Qrow's son."
Tai chocked.
"What?!"
"He's Qrow's son. And he's asked me to watch him for a while."
"A while?! What a while?! When did Qrow have a kid!?" Tai yelled as-
"Umm excuse me? Aunt Raven?" Jaune asked as Raven froze before a forced smile came on her face as she bent over to stare Jaune in the face.
"Yes Jaune, what is it?"
"Ummm did you read the back of the letter?"
"The back?"
"Yeah. Dad didn't want you to raise me...
"What? Then-
"He wanted the good mom with the short skirt Summer? To look after me, he said you where an angry, edgy bird who wouldn't know good tastes it if bit her in the ass and should not be let within five yards of a child let alone be allowed to guard one. He just told me to get the letter to you first for some reason."
Jaune said in an even tone as Raven's eye twitched and a red vein popped over her eye and-
"Enough! Jaune, sweetie, let me read that." Summer said taking the letter from Ravne before she snapped! As she read the back.
"Summer, I know we didn't leave on the best terms but-
"Ok, look, I'm not gonna bullshit you ok? I need someone to look after my kid, and you are it. And before! You get all mad, and come looking for me whips out don't worry. I just need you to look after, clothe, feed, provide shelter alogn with physical and emotional support to my kid for a period of time, probably a number of years while I travel. I know you won't turn down someone in need espically a kid so here. Have fun!"

FISHT!
Summer tore the paper in half as her eye twitched as she bent down to see Jaune at eye level her voice painfully measured to not scare the child.
"Jaune. You are going to stay with us for a while, while I find your father and think of ways to make him wish he was never born ok?"
"What?'
"Don't you worry about it! Yang! This is Jaune! He's your cousin!"
Summer said as Yang who had been looking cautiously at Jaune now smiled warmly at him.
"Sweet! I got a cousin!"
Yang said pounding her fist together as-
"Mom!"
Ruby said running back form the kitchen hugging her mother tight as Summer leaped! To catch the dropping plate of cookies as she smiled.
"Hello Ruby, I take it that these are for Jaune?" "Yeah! I wanted to give my cousin some cookies!"
"Ruby you are a good girl, now everyone! Time for dinner!"
"Sum I-
"TAI! I said its time for dinner." Summer said grinding her teeth as Tai and Raven backed off as they gulped in fear as dinner was made.

"So Jaune, tell me about yourself...
Tai said as he looked at Yang's cousin? A short blonde boy who was dressed in what looked like patched together black leather armor, that had seen its fair share of use and abuse, as -
"So cous! What's in your package?"
Yang asked Jaune as the boy had yet to open his package that Qrow managed of time perfectly! With his arrival as Jaune smiled at her.
"Oh! Let me show you!"
Jaune said reaching for his package and-
Whap!
"AH!"
"No opening things at the dinner table Jaune! Go back to your food!"
Summer said happily her right eye twitching violently as Jaune backed off goign back to his spaghetti as Summer seated.
"So Jaune how is your father? Last time I saw my partner he was going out for a drink, that so far has taken him almost seven years!"
Summer growled bending her fork with her hand as her aura flared silver.

"He's fine. Last time I saw him was when he sent me here." Jaune said as he ate his spaghetti as Sumer ground her teeth.
"Oh really? When did he send you here? How far away is he?"
"Last time I checked? We were about forty miles out."
"Forty miles!? How did you even get here?!"
"I walked."
" You walk?!"
"I couldn't afford a bullhead ticket, so I walked."
"But we are on an island! How did you get to the island?"
"Stowed away on a boat."
"Cool!"
"Yang!"
"Sorry...
"So he let's kid own child walk forty miles alone and undefended!?"
"No. I was not undefended, for most of the trip I had this."
Jaune said unpacking his package forgetting about Summer's rule as she showed off-
"That's so cool!"
Ruby said as Jaune pulled out a sword and shield and-
"Those are remarkable weapons. Where did you get those?" Raven asked eyeing the master crafted weaponry that while antiquated was far better than most and-
"They belonged to my mother."
Jaune said as Summer tasted blood.
"Oh, your mother! I bet she is just thrilled! To know her child is running around without her knowledge and no husband to look out for his son!"
"Not really, I don't think she cares much."
"What!? Why would she not care for her own child?"
"Becuase she's dead," Jaune said a small frown on his face as-
"I'm sorry."
Summer's anger died in a moment as she switched to her usual carrying demeanor as she put a hand on the boy's shoulder.
"I'm sorry about your mom. I didn't mean anything by what I said." Summer said her eyes losing all form of hostility as she went into comfort mode.
"It's ok. I never knew her, so I don't mind. She died when I was born, so I never met her. For most of the time it was me and my dad really so I didn't get attached to her."
Jaune said shrugging his shoulders as he took out his sippy cup form his box and began to sip.
"Apple juice?" Raven asked as Jauen shook his head.
"No whiskey mixed with milk."
Jaune said drinking his liquor and-
Whap!
Raven knocked the drink out of his hand as Jaune whined.

"AH! Hey! What gives?"
"Jaune! You are a child!"
"And?"
"A child does not get to drink alcohol Jaune!"
"But it's in my sippy cup!"
"What does that have to do with it?!"
"Dad says if you drink liquor form your sippy cup it's ok!"
"I'm going to kill him.'
Summer growled and-
"Jaune! You spilled ketchup on your sword!"
Ruby said pointed to a small red stain on it as Jaune blinked.
"Nah, that's blood. I still have some from the Fang convoy."
Jaune said as the table went still.
"Did you say...
Tai trial doff as-
"Blood," Raven said ripping the sword from his hand as she saw the red stain on it.
"Jaune, whose blood is this?"
"Don't know, probably the guy who I killed?" Jaune deadpanned as-
"You kill people?!"
Yang balked an interested look in her lilac eyes as Ruby whimpered and-
"Yeah, me and dad kill lot's of people. Only bad guys, it's the Branwen way! Or so he said."
Jaune said shrugging nonchalantly as-
"Jaune. You don't have a change of clothes do you?"
Summer asked eying the weapons in his hands as Jaune nodded.
"No. I only have my armor, why?"
"You need a bath. If you are going to stay here, I have to make sure you are clean!" Summer said hiding her anger under a serene smile as Jaune nodded.

"You are surprisingly clean." Summer noted as despite wearing the same armor for who knows how long Jaune was oddly clean.
His slim young body was not filthy as she expected and besides the smell of liquor on his breath and the scars...
Summer counted three separate bullet wounds on his chest. Stitched in a neat pattern with corresponding exit wounds on his back and a number of scratches and claw marks on him from Grimm she guessed as she bathed Jaune. Standing on the side of the tub, cleaning the boy just how she cleaned her own children. Jaune was surprisingly complacent as Summer cleaned him. The only real difference between him and Ruby or Yang besides the fact that he was a boy there was no real difference with him.
She washed his badly, shampooed his hair all things that Jaune took without instance. As she washed her new child.
"Jaune, do you knew where your father is?" Summer asked pouring a small bucket of warm water over his head as he shook his messy blonde hair.
"Nope."
Jaune replied calmly as Summer rinsed his hair.

"Do you have any idea where he is?"
"Nope. Last time we spoke, he said he was going to try to take the heat off of us."
"The heat?"
"The last time we fought we attacked a White Fang convoy. After that, the Fang put a hit out on us. He went to kill the ones that are trying to kill us. He said he would come back to pick me up when it was all said and done."
Jaune said closing his eyes as Summer poured conditioner over his head. Lathering up his hair as she smoothed it out.
"How... how is Qrow? Is... is he eating well?"
"Not really. We don't eat much."

'I see...
Summer said nothing the child was around ten to twenty pounds underweight for his age as Summer sighed. He needed to eat more, she would have to buy more food for him. Cook for him, put him in school along with a plethora of other tasks.

"Dammit, Qrow! Why did you dump your kid on me?!" Summer thought hating the fact that her ex-boyfriend and partner had literally come back into her life in the worst way possible. Tossing a kid underweight, alone and armed!? Who not only had fought but killed a man!? Multiple men!? Summer sighed knowing that she needed to sort this out and figure out how to handle a new child.

"Jaune do you know who your mother was?"
Summer asked hoping to get a name from his mouth and finding out who the other side of his family was. Hopefully taking him home to them and-
'Not really. Dad never talked about her much. All I know is she died for me to be born."

Jaune replied as hope form the mother's side died off in a moment.
"I'm sorry. I know she loved you very much though."
"Really? Why do you think she loved me?"
Jaune asked a curious tone in his voice as Summer paused.
"Jaune, she was your mother. Of course, she loved you very much."
"How could she? She died right after I was born. How could she ever love me if she never met me?"
"Because she was your mother. All-
"Most mothers love their children, and I am sure she was no different." Summer said running a hand over his hair as he sighed.
"I... I hope so... I want her to love me... "I'm sure she did. Now take a break, and let me wash your hair. You need to get ready for bed ok?"

"Ok," Jaune said as Summer dunked his head in water as they finished his bath.

This was not how Jaune thought he would be ending his day. As he blushed brightly and coughed heavily currently Jaune was wearing a very bright! Dress as he wore a shirt from his cousin Yang? Who had let him borrow her shirt and shorts?
As he sat in his makeshift bed in the Rose, Branew Xiao-Long household. As he covered himself up in a pair of blankest as he closed his eyes.
"I guess I wait till dad gets back," Jaune said as he closed his eyes and went to sleep... Or he would have like to if he was not suddenly and rudely awakened.
"Hey! Hey Jaune! Wake up!"
A voice said as Jaune woke up groggily to a pair of lilac eyes looking down on him.
"Yang? What are you-
"Come on! We got to go! I already bribed Ruby, but we don't have much time!"
"Time for what Yang? What's going on?"
"We! Are going to find your dad!"
Yang said as Jaune felt his heart sink.

Five hours later Jaune knew they had made a mistake. He and Yang had been walking deep in the woods of Patch in the middle of the night with only twin flashlight between them for light to find his dad. A quest that Jaune knew was dubious at best as the two made their way into the woods.
Yang had told him that his dad was probably here!
Here was a barn at the far end of a four-mile hike through the twisted gnarled near pitch black woods of Patch. A walk Jaune only endured for two reasons. One he recognized the point of her map as a legitimate hideout spot his dad would use.
Two, Yang was going to go with our without him and he would prefer that she go with him. A thought she shared as Yang had said herself. Jaune had the weapons. That's why he was there to protect her. Yang was going to go by herself. And Jaune knew for a fact that Grimm lived in these woods.

And letting his cousin get eaten alive on the first day of their meeting seemed in bad taste, so he held off on that.
Instead, he kept quiet, following Yang outside as Ruby whimpered in her room. Trying and failing to have them stay. As Yang just pushed more cookies at her as Jaune followed the elder sibling out, keeping Crocea Mors drawn as he followed Yang. Yang talked loudly about any and everything. From her school that she hated apparently. A fact Jaune could sympathize with. Jaune never went to school and the fact that he might have to spend long hours sitting in a dim room learning about dead men all day was a serious buzz kill. As Yang had so deftly put it. As Jaune smiled and nodded as the two made their way into the forest.
Traveling deep into the woods, far past the point of an easy return as Jaune frowned, they were far, far away from their house now. The woods had taken on an unhealthy look. As the trees looked like gnarled, twisted mutations of normal tree life, fille the air. As Jaune felt a tremor of unease fill his spine as he gripped his sword tighter and-
"There!"
Yang said suddenly as she pointed to a large broken and battered barn house with dry chipping red paint that looked like it had not been used in over a decade as Jaune narrowed his eyes.
Something was wrong and-
"Come on!" Yang shouted as she ran up to the barn as Jaune instantly felt something off about the situation as he called out.
"Yang wait!"
Jaune yelled as yang reached the barn house pulling open the door as Jaune's fears became reality as a pair of red eyes looked down at Yang.
"Uncle Qrow?"
Yank asked blinking owlishly at the Beowulf that had been sleeping in the bar as it growled sensing new flesh as it rose a clawed hand over its head and brought it down on Yang.
"Down!"
Jaune yelled tackling Yang to the side screaming as he felt his aura flare up as the Grimm struck his back tearing Yang's shirt as he growled.
Rolling with the hit and pushing Yang out of the way as the monster charged him only for Jaune to slash out with his sword. Impaling it in the heart killing it instantly and-
"Jaune! You did it! You are awesome!"
Yang said lilac eye wide in praise as-
"We are not done yet."
Jaune said as several more pairs of red eyes filled the gloomy tree line as more Grimm became attracted to them as-
"Yang get behind me," Jaune said as his blonde cousin got behind him and gripped his shoulder as the first Creeps cam out of the tree line.

Jaune did the only thing he could think of. Buy time. He knew he was going to die and probably Yang to so he decided to buy his cousin a few more minutes of life.

"Yang run!"

Jaune said as e ran into the treeline, hoping to kill one Grimm allowing the rest to focus on him and letting Yang escape. A plan that went about as well as one coudl hope as an Ursa batted him down with the force of a pile driver. Knocking the weapons out of his arms, and coming down on him jaw snapping and-
Iron.
Jaune tasted iron as the Grimm popped like a water balloon as silver? Rose petals fell aroudn him, as Summer appeared out of thin air popping the Grimm as Jaune -
"YANG!"
An angry feminine voice yelled as Raven stepped out of a glowing red portal?!
"She can really make portals?!"
Jaune thoguht as his dads warning about his aunt prove true as Raven stepped out of the portal glaring death into both them as they gulped.

"Out of all the irresponsible! Foolish! Insane things you coudl do! You do this!?"
Raven yelled as she lectured Yang and Jaune. Well, she scolded Yang, as it was well established despite Jaune's protest that this incident was Yang's fault. As Ruby had in the end tattled to her parents about what happened allowing the rescue attempt that saved both of their lives. As the tale, Ruby said indicated that Yang pressured Jaune into going, and now she was getting the third-degree from her mother while Summer fussed with his back.
Putting a salve on his back as she checked the bruised back of his. Not that she needed to, Jaune was used to heavier strikes than the Ursa gave him. And after many hours of convincing Jaune had talked both Summer, Raven and Tai down from glowering mad to only irritated.
As Raven's lecture came to an end and Summer finally let his back alone. The three children were all given a parent to sleep with as promises of no more lectures tonight but punishments tomorrow where issues. As Ruby went with her father, Yang and Raven slept together. Jaune was once again put back in bed. This time with Summer at his side, holding him close and wrapping her long arms around as he closed his eyes this was not what he was expecting out of a new family but it was ok. "At least Yang and Ruby like me." Jaune thought as he closed his eyes and went to sleep as his new life began.

An: There! Done! The first chapter of Branwen is complete! This is my newest series and it will be updated after Jauen Torchwick until that fic get's replaced! As it's next chapter will be the last one! So look forward to it! This fic will mainly be about Jaune growin up as Qrow's kid and him living with Ruby and Yang. The three growing up as sibling couisn and maybe more? As they go through life and eventually go to Beacon. Hope you liked it and all coments wer welocm. Untilt he next chapter? Have a good day.