Main theme: Metro Exodus rap by Jt Music, featuring Andrea Storm Kaden
Theme: Silly Fun by Kevin Macleod


Jaune finished brushing the last of his hair, and looked himself in the mirror. Putting down the bottle of gel, he looked at the many upwards pointing spikes that now made up his hair, and smiled. For too long, he had been called 'Tall, blond, and scraggly', well no more! Now, he would be known as Tall, blond, and manly!

And it all began with his new hairdo, of which he poked one of the spikes that now inhabited his hair. It had taken him the better part of 2 hours, but finally, he had created something more presentable than just an untamed mop atop his head. Now, all was left to do was present it to the world.

Smiling to himself, he left Team JNPER's bathroom, put his clothes on, and left their shared bedroom. His team always left to go about their own business anyways, so it was nothing new to him.

As he proudly marched out of his room, he almost bumped into someone, and looked down, and saw Ruby looking up at him, "Oh, hey Ruby!" he exclaimed as he closed and locked the door to his team's room behind him, "What's up?"

Ruby just stared up at the spikes on his hair, a blank expression on her face.

"Oh, you like what I've done with my hair?" he said, all too pleased with himself about it, as he put his hands to his side and proudly puffed his chest out, "I figured that it was time for a change, is all! Can't be called 'Tall, blond, and scraggly' forever now, can I? Now, I'm on my way to being called 'Tall, blond, and manly'!"

"..."

"...Er, Ruby?"

Ruby didn't say anything as she tossed her hand into his hair and petted it, messing it up a slight bit, before walking off, now looking quite pleased with herself for some reason.

Jaune gave off a slightly miffed frown at this. He had worked hard on this hair, thank you very much, and he didn't really appreciate that she'd gone out of her way to ruin it.

"What have you done to your hair?"

Jaune looked to the side, to see his fellow team leader, Melanie, dressed up in a slightly customised version of her school uniform, looking at the top of his head in... Dsigust? Anguish? What was going on?

He tried to put on his best smile, before deciding to just settle for the same frown, and going, "Yeah, I decided to change it up a bit. Unfortunately, Ruby had to go and mess it up a bit", he sighed as he tried to sort out his hair and get it back into its spiky formation, "What's up with you, though? You look like you've seen something horrifying."

"Yeah... I have."

Jaune blinked, and looked down at her.

Melanie just responded by petting the top of his head repeatedly, and then walking off without saying a word.

"Hey!" he cried out after her, which was ignored, and he just grumbled to himself and tried to sort out his locks once more.

Which would've been easier if Steam hadn't walked past him and convinced his mechanical bird Hammer to fly right above him and mess up his hair even more.

What was going on today?

Grumbling to himself once more, and having to shield his hair from any ongoing passersby, thankfully only being second to fourth years who either just gave him and his hair a funny look or just ignored him.

Except for Coco, who seemed to go out of her way to chase him around for 5 minutes at full speed to try and ruffle his hair even more.

What on Remnant was going on today?!

Finally after somehow shaking her off, Jaune finally made it to his first class for the day, and made his way inside, spotting the likes of Neon, DJ, Jolie Kobal, Russel, Kayble, Rancor, Ciel, Scrapster, Alexis, Bayonet, and so on, sitting in their seats, listening to the teacher, Professor Watts, at the front.

(Surprisingly enough, Pyrrha wasn't there. He supposed that she was just busy training, and hadn't noticed the time. He'd tried to talk to her about it, but she had just shrugged it off in turn.)

Ah, he was safe in here. No one would try to mess up his hair in the middle of a teacher's lesson, would they?

"Sorry I'm late", Jaune huffed out in embarrassment, still trying to sort out his locks, "I was making myself a new hairstyle, but everyone's trying to ruin it, and I've been trying to fix it, and..."

He trailed off as Professor Watts just nodded to him, but all of the other students in the classroom just looked at him with a blank stare.

Or more specifically, they all looked at his hair with a blank stare.

"...What?"

DJ was the one to rise from his seat, and point his finger.

"Get him."

And then Jaune was dogpiled by 30 first years before he could even react.

"GET HIS HAIR!"

"COVER HIM!"

"GET HIS LOCKS!"

"NO! NOT MY LOCKS!"

"GET THE SHAMPOO AND WATER!"

"NO! MY HAIR!"

"YES YOUR HAIR!"

"GET AQUA OVER HERE!"

And then, Neon's face overshadowed the fearful blond boy's, as she delivered to him a manic smile and a pair of scissors.

"SAY GOODBYE TO THE SPIKY BANANA HAIR, JAUNE!"

"SPIKY HAIR NOOOOOOOOOOOO-"


When Pyrrha finally walked into the classroom, exhausted from her self-imposed training session, she was understandably confused as to why the entirety of the first year, 200 in number, had somehow crammed themselves into the room and were surrounding a sulking Jaune as they covered his hair in soapy shampoo and water, a comically sad frown on his face as they ran fingers through his shaggy and wet hair and seemed to make sure that it was indeed shaggy and free.

However, when she heard about what he had done to his hair beforehand, she immediately took cleaning his hair and getting rid off all of the gel in it.

Jaune was not allowed to stylise his hair ever again.


Gotta admit, even I'm not a fan of Jaune's haircut in Volume 7. It just looks too much like he's trying to be Naruto. It just looks silly.

This little short story was inspired by a BNHA piece on Archive Of Our Own called Curly Green Hair by Annyruok, in which our good friend Deku tries to sort out his hair, much to the disapproval of his other classmates, and I decided to do the same, but with Jaune's hair, and the first years, of course, being extra about it.

There was also a bit of inspiration from Brooklyn 99 with the ending, but I only realised that when I was writing it, so go figure.

Anyways, not too long ago, I got a review from a Guest, who said that there were more side story chapters than main ones, and had asked whenever the plot was going to continue.

This is a good question, so allow me to clarify something:

These short stories are good for 2 things: 1, they allow me to add in side bits and details without having to stuff them all into a single chapter where they wouldn't fit, and 2: They help me to get into the mood of writing.

Recently, I was feeling a bit not in the mood for writing, but now that I've finished writing this, I feel much more in the mood once again to do this. So these stories are for my sake as well as yours.

And, I also think that they help to set the mood a bit. And I just like writing them. I think they're fun, and, of course, isn't that the point of writing?

Now, to that guest that had asked that, don't worry, we'll be getting back to the main plot soon. I might post a few more of these short stories up though before I do so, or I might just head back to the main plot without much preamble, though I am definitely leaning more towards the former than the latter.

Anyways, with all of that said and done, stay safe, stay awesome, and I'll see you all next time.

Titanmaster117 out!