A/N: What's hell? Having your curtains fall and trying to sleep even though you have your face in the direction of the sun. Well, more action and plot the next chapter. Fixed some mistakes in previous chapters.

Pyrrha didn't like complicated, far too many days in her life have been like that.

That was especially true for the last two years of her life. Far too many people took interest in the Invincible Girl, everyone wanted something from her, be it an autograph, a sponsorship, or for her to win another tournament.

At first, it wasn't so bad, she enjoyed the attention, to rise to the expectation of the people around her, to challenge other people and to win by a slight margin.

During the first two tournaments, it was like that. But in the third tournament, everything changed.

There was no challenge.

Some of her opponents had landed a few hits on her but never dropped her below green. It was even worse in the fourth tournament, the only one that had managed to hit her was the finalist but only managed to do it in a last-ditch effort.

She was mad that day. They celebrated as if he was a hero when he barely managed to hit her. She realized that day, she wasn't a person to them anymore. She was just 'The Invincible Girl', a natural disaster, something unstoppable, that's why they celebrated her opponent, he had managed to put a dent on the natural disaster.

That got her to wonder if she should have trained less. She knew she wouldn't do that… no, it was different, she couldn't. The Invincible Girl would force her to train to exhaustion, she wouldn't let her rest if she hadn't done her very best.

But the worst part wasn't the tournaments or the training in the last two years. It was how it ruined her relationships.

Her parents seem to enjoy the attention, they were able to meet the high class of Mistral and Argus, and they seemed to enjoy that, it was something they would have never be able to do otherwise. That was because of her parents where a simple preschool teacher and a blacksmith, and they were introduced to a whole new world because of her.

She was glad they were having fun, but she was seeing them less and less. She would be too busy to see them as she had classes at Sanctum, had to train after, had to deal with sponsorship and go to events. She would arrive late at home and would barely see them. And as they got more involved with Mistral's and Argus's high class they would leave their house at night, sometimes even before she arrived there. There would be days without seeing her parents.

She felt so lonely those days, arriving at a silent house, it wasn't the home she was used to, she was used to arrive to see her smiling mother hoping to tell her about her day, and they would wait for her father that would arrive after she did, where she would ask what type of weapons he worked on that day. She wondered when she was on that lonely house if it was her that her parents loved, or what 'The Invincible Girl' brought them. She couldn't answer that question no matter how hard she thought of it, but… she wasn't sure she wanted an answer, it scared her.

She then realized that even her parents were seeing her as 'The Invincible Girl', expecting her to handle all of those things flawlessly by herself. She had to admit she was mad at them, but she couldn't bring herself to say anything, they just looked so happy. She couldn't bring herself to destroy that.

It wasn't only her parents, but also her… friend? She wasn't sure what to call her, they had been friends even before she had won her first tournament. She was the only one that hadn't changed her attitude when she won her first tournament, everyone else just said how great she was for winning Mistral's tournament, well she did as well, but she didn't idolize her as the rest of her classmates.

She was the only one she could be around in Sanctum without being quickly tired. They had fun together in school, and as her parents slowly disappeared from her life, she was someone she could rely on. Eventually, they became a bit more…But that didn't last.

That happened before she won her fourth tournament, they had a… moment and she enjoyed it, but she quickly caught on the change on her friends' attitude, she wanted to head to town more often and would stay in public places, she didn't like that, and she could tell, she liked the attention she received. She had to act as the 'The Invincible Girl' more and more and she hated it, her… the relationship didn't last long.

And she was all alone.

After she won the fourth tournament, she felt lonely, scared and mad. She was trapped by the expectation of the people around her, and her duty to fulfill them, she couldn't see any way out. She didn't want to be 'The Invincible Girl' anymore, she didn't want to be in the spotlight… she wanted to be free, to be comfortable, but she couldn't escape… that was until she met Headmaster Ozpin.

'Would you like to study at Beacon?'

She didn't hesitate, she immediately accepted. She could see a way out, from Argus, from Mistral, from her family, from her friend. From herself.

Suddenly she felt something on her cheek, she let out a small sound of surprise, and turned her head towards her left and saw Jaune who had a small smile and his index finger hanging a few inches from her face. She let out a small smile. He apologized as he lowered his 'weapon', "Sorry, kind of weird seeing you spacing out".

She let a small smile at his concern and said softly, "Yeah, I usually don't", he had a questioning look, but she felt someone's gaze on them. Professor Goodwitch was looking at her directly. Before Jaune could ask what was wrong, she showed her palm, trying to signal to stop. His look only deepened, but he didn't speak.

When Professor Goodwitch gaze left, she signaled with her hand towards her, then pointed at her mouth with her index finger, then moved it side to side, trying to signal that they shouldn't speak. He let out a small 'Oh', but still gave her a look that they should talk later. She just gave a small nod.

She took a small glance at Jaune's spear, it was leaning against his shoulder as he sat looking at the match.

She could say that it was the source of all of her problems right now. It was changing all of her life, and it did it in no more than half an hour.

She was a bit disappointed that she couldn't train Jaune into a great warrior, but she didn't mind, as people would surely shut up about her partner not being good enough for Beacon. They weren't exactly subtle, the insults and sneers he got from his classmates, but he acted as if he didn't see them, She knew better, he definitely saw them. She had asked him about it, and he simply said:

'They are just words, they can't hurt me'.

She could see it was deeper than that, he simply didn't care about them, that didn't mean he would leave them be if they were in trouble, like an Ursa Major trying to eat them… It was that their words had no power over him, it was a simple thing, but not everyone could do that… like herself.

That didn't mean she would just leave them be, she wouldn't resort to blind violence… maybe she would, but only on combat class. She would make sure to take special care of those that looked down on Jaune. He definitely noticed after a few matches, he wasn't opposed to that, as he was before Forever Fall, and he simply said to her with a smile on his face:

'Aww, Aren't you sweet', she could see it in his face that he meant it.

She still remembered that embarrassing feeling, at him, calling out on her and the fact that he called her sweet as if she wasn't the one to knock around her opponent across the whole arena, before finally slamming him against the floor.

She had been called many things, beautiful, strong, unstoppable… but never sweet.

That day she knew she wasn't wrong in picking Jaune as her partner and even keeping his secret about her transcripts, she wasn't 'The Invincible Girl' to him, she was just Pyrrha, his friend, his partner.

It was simple, she had his back and he had hers. She could rely on him, it wasn't like that at first but in the weekend after Forever Fall she knew he could trust him to help her. She remembered that day clearly.

Her team wanted to go to Vale, she didn't want to and was showing a reluctant expression. Jaune saw that and he asked, "You don't want to go?". She felt Ren and Nora's gazes and she quickly said with her practiced smile, "No, I want to go".

This was an important time for their team, Jaune had told them about his transcripts and they didn't seem to mind, but she still wanted to do more things with the team, just to make sure. Even if she had to deal with those vultures.

She then felt Jaune's hardening gaze, she knew he had caught on to her, "Why don't you want to go?", she tried again, "I wan-", he cut her off, "Come on Pyrrha, tell us, we won't know how to help you if we don't know the problem.

She knew he was calling out on her, it was like that night on the roof, but the roles were reversed, she sighed, and said, "I don't want to go to Vale, because of the reporters and fans". She saw Jaune's expression and it was saying, 'Is that all?' she quickly dreaded the follow-up question 'They are just reporters and fans. How bad can they be?'.

But that question never came, he simply said with a smile, "We can just disguise you", she released a small sigh of relief but was still worried and said with a resigned voice, "I've tried, it doesn't go so well". He just pointed at the rest of our team, that had a weird expression on their faces, and said, "You didn't have us before, let us disguise you and if you don't think it will work, Ren and Nora will just go Vale on their own."

By the look of Jaune, she knew he wouldn't leave her alone in the dorms, she was touched, she figured she could say that it was good even if it wasn't but dismissed it, Jaune could tell when she lied.

She looked at Nora, she seemed excited as she flipped her closet as Ren tries to clean up her mess, she was worried she would toss a grenade and destroy the room… again. But it hasn't happened in over a month. Suddenly something covered her face and there was only black.

She took it off and could see what it was. It was a hoodie, it was black and with red lines intertwining diagonally until it reached the shoulder. She liked it. She then heard Jaune, "My hoodies are the only thing that a girl can use, so he doesn't have a lot of options here", she simply said with a smile, "I like it". She held it close to her stomach.

Jaune then asked Nora if she found anything, and due to the huge difference in sizes between them, there was only a single thing, a huge sun hat, she wasn't sure where she got that, she hasn't seen it in the two months they lived together.

Nora put it on and the hat flipped down covering half her body. Definitely uncomfortable to walk with. Kind of hard to walk if you can't see. Nora just yelled excitedly, "This is perfect! Nobody will recognize you if they can't see you!" Also true, but they could still see her… Jaune intervened, "Let's leave it as a plan B", Nora just pouted as she left the hat in her desk, and she had to laugh at that, Ren smiled as well.

Jaune then looked at her and said with an embarrassed expression, "Well we don't have clothes that fit you, so do you have… you know… normal clothes", she laughed at that, and said rolling her eyes, "Yes Jaune, I don't only have the school uniform and my combat gear". She left the hoodie on the chair, went to the closet and took a brown t-shirt, red pants and a pair of sneakers. She then left her headpiece on her desk and went to change to the bathroom.

When she came out, there were two new people in the room, Yang and Ruby, she guessed Jaune had asked team RWBY for their help.

Yang then said, "Wow, P-Money you look good", and she also heard Ruby agree, she simply thanked them. She then put on the hoodie, it was big, but not as big as she thought it would be, it reached below the waist and the sleeves almost reached half of her hand, also her long hair was beneath the hoodie. She then heard Jaune say, "It's one of my old ones, packed it here by mistake". That made more sense.

Yang then said, "But you are missing something", she handed her a pair of sunglasses, she put them on, and heard Ruby's voice, "You look so different!", And Yang responded as if trying to convince her, "That's the magic of clothes!", Ruby just looked at her and after a moment of silence Yang said with a shrug, "Well, had to try".

Jaune was looking at her and frowning a bit and before she could ask, "I know what else is missing", he grabbed Crocea Mors and tossed it at her.

She quickly grabbed it and everyone was looking at him with a questioning glance, when he noticed that, he said, "Well everyone is with weapons here, or combat clothing so it would be weird if she had neither". Nora smiled at him and 'patted' him in the back, making him almost fall over and she said, "Nice catch, fearless leader!".

She smiled at that, she was touched he simply handed over his weapon over such a simple thing. She clipped in her pants, but was a bit too long and made it a bit awkward to walk with. Jaune noticed that and said "I got just the thing", he looked in his closet, he gave her a leather sword holder for her back. It felt a bit awkward as it wasn't her own weapon but much less than before.

Jaune then said with an expectation on his voice, "Sooo, go see yourself in the mirror", she did, and she was surprised, she looked completely different.

She had the large hoodie and its red threads crossed with the sword holder, it looked a bit big, but not enough to be eye-catching, had a sword hilt poking over her right shoulder, she also had the sunglasses that helped cover her face but even with them she could tell, she looked relaxed.

She said with a smile towards them, "Let's go to Vale", they all had smiles at the work well done and headed towards the bullheads. Apparently Yang and Ruby also decided to join in, she asked about Weiss and Blake. Yang and Ruby had bored expressions as they replied curtly, "Studying" said Ruby, "Reading" said Yang. Nora then said with an air of understanding, "Yeah, I know how dull a partner like that can be", Ren just rolled his eyes and they laughed.

They were soon on the streets of Vale, they were talking and having fun when suddenly Ruby saw a bakery and rushed in. Yang then said, "Vomit-Boy, do you mind checking in on Ruby, to make sure she doesn't buy too many cookies?", He only replied as he walked into the bakery, "It was once, Yang, once". Yang just said snappily, "Tell that to my shoes". She giggled a bit at that, thankfully he only had airsickness when he was nervous.

Suddenly Yang was in front of her and said teasingly, "So P-Money, you looked awfully happy when you put on the hoodie. Are you hiding something?", She was a bit confused and asked, "What would I be hiding?".

Yang put on a thoughtful expression and tapped her cheek with her finger and after a moment she replied, "I don't know… your love for Jaune?".

Her mind went into overdrive to find a possible answer, because she knew that if Yang started teasing her with Jaune it would only be a matter of time before he found out, and that would complicate things and she hadn't been so happy in a long time and she didn't want to change things, she found an answer and before she could think deeply of it it was already out of her mouth.

"I like girls", she blanked at her own answer, it wasn't wrong, she had only kissed a girl in all of her life and she enjoyed it, but she hadn't been attracted to many people so she wasn't sure. She also felt stupid, she didn't want to change things and then said that.

There was a moment of silence before Yang stepped in close and said teasingly, "Oh, so do you find me hot? She blushed and looked away and she heard Yang's cocky voice, "You don't need to answer that" She wasn't sure what that proved, she was also embarrassed when Jaune took his shirt off…

She had to admit, she was scared there for a second, that they would treat her differently, but Nora and Ren said a few supportive words but didn't seem to care all that much. Well, what else would she expect, fake transcripts didn't faze them, so why would this be any different.

Jaune and Ruby came out of the store, and Jaune had failed, Ruby came out with a huge bag. Yang glared at Jaune and said, "You had one job!", Jaune said meekly, "Well she was going to buy twice that…" Yang then went into mother hen mode and scolded Ruby for buying so many, while Ruby pouted.

They explored Vale for a while, managed to get a few things for their room, mainly a few posters to put on, but eventually, they separated, Nora and Ren went to buy pancake ingredients while Yang and Ruby went to buy ammunition. She went with Jaune to a cafe to wait for them.

They sat by the window, and as it was getting late she took off Yang's sunglasses. They were having a fun time, but she was avoiding something, she was scared but eventually, she told him what she told Yang, and he didn't seem fazed. She was glad, nothing had changed.

After some time she heard a voice, and she was instantly frustrated, "Hello, Pyrrha Nikkos", it was a man in his thirties dressed in a suit. She instantly crosses her arms in front of her and coldly said, "Hello".

He wasn't discouraged, he took a seat from a nearby table and sat in theirs. Jaune said in an even voice, she didn't know he had, "Who invited you to this table?" The man simply ignored him and said, "I have a business proposition for you, my company would like for you to spons-" Jaune cut him off, he probably noticed she didn't want to be close to this man, "Let's go Pyrrha, we can go wait for them in another place".

He stood up and she put on the sunglasses and followed him, but the man also stood up, and tried to follow them, she felt resigned, but before he took a single step, Jaune turned around and stepped in front of her, and she saw the man freeze, he was stiff, it was like he couldn't take a single step. Jaune then said in the same even voice, "Leave her alone". She could see the sweat covering the businessman, he looked terrified, just like Cardin a few days ago.

Jaune paid at the counter and they left. Eventually, they met up with the rest and went back to Beacon. She also asked them to keep it, that she liked girls, a secret, no reason to feed the vultures. They agreed.

She was glad he was her partner, he simply cared about her, if she was uncomfortable he would notice and do his best for her, it was just that simple and she would do her best to do the same for him.

She liked that about Jaune, he was simple, and it was exactly what she needed. In a way, the spear he was holding was a perfect representation of him, just a wooden shaft and a metal tip, as simple as it could get in the era of mechashift weapons.

But that wasn't the only thing she likes about him, he also enjoys the way he looked at her in their training sessions. He just looked at her, silently. That mattered to her, because as he said recently 'a fight is more than a physical exchange but also a psychological one as well', and she could see the emotions flashing across her opponent's faces and they generally were fear and resignation, they didn't even try.

But Jaune, he would always try his best and he wouldn't give up. Again, it was a simple thing, but it was a hard thing to do. Because of that, she was excited about their training sessions, even if he wasn't the strongest opponent he was someone fun to spar with, he always had new ideas to challenge her. Not that they worked, she had far too much experience, but it was fun nonetheless.

Suddenly she blanked out and what she was trying to avoid came up in her mind.

'They just kissed'.

She felt frustrated, she didn't like Weiss, she reminded her of everything she ran away from. The wealth, the high class, the sponsorships. Besides she also looked down on Jaune, she wasn't sure what he saw in her. But what bothered her the most was that it came out of the blue, they haven't even talked in months!

Yet they kissed, she was worried Weiss would be interested in Jaune now when he was strong because she would barely look his way before today, and if that was the case she knew it would end badly.

She didn't know how she would act with Weiss as Jaune's girlfriend, would she have to stay away? She refused to do that, Jaune was her best friend and she wouldn't let Weiss keep him from her. Suddenly she remembered Yang's words:

'I don't know… your love for Jaune?'

She never really answered that, not to Yang and not to herself, she only ran away from the question.

Could she like Jaune? And now she was feeling jealous? She didn't know how to answer that. She simply stared blankly at nothing in particular.

Then she sensed a bit of movement from her side, Jaune was leaning forwards, putting his elbow on his leg and supporting his head with his hand. She focused on him a bit, before glancing at Jaune's lips, she then turned away rapidly.

Yes, she liked him, she could say that much by what flashed in her head, but this only frustrated her more, Jaune and Weiss just kissed!

Her head was only filled with differing thoughts for the rest of the class, she was definitely attracted to Jaune, but that would change things, and she was already satisfied with her life right now, she hasn't been so happy in years, and she didn't want to ruin what they already had.

Eventually, class ended and Jaune said to her, "We'll talk later, Ms. Goodwitch called me to her office", she nodded blankly, and he followed Professor Goodwitch. As people left the classroom, she saw that their teams weren't moving and Weiss was in a daze staring at Jaune's back. She felt her heart sinking.

She then saw Yang wrap her arm around Weiss's shoulder and say, "So it's true, you became Jaune's Snow angel".

Weiss looked absolutely shocked, she wasn't sure if it was a good or bad sign and immediately said, "What!? No! Where did you get that idea?", Yang just looked at Ruby, and then Weiss did the same and groaned.

She then saw Weiss glare at Ruby, "Why would you say that?", Ruby immediately hid in her red cloak, and was fidgeting intensively as she stuttered, "W-well, y-you were taking so long and you were mad and Jaune went in there…" Weiss tapped her feet intensely and said angrily, "So how does that connect to what Yang just said?".

Everyone was curious and were watching intently at the conversation, Ruby said after a moment of hesitation, "W-Well, you were mad after the match.", She was? She didn't notice, maybe she was somewhat dazed at how well Jaune had done that she wasn't paying attention, or maybe it was just Ruby knowing her partner very well. Ruby then continued, "And you don't like Jaune at all" Yang intervened right there, she said raising an eyebrow, "Or does she?".

Weiss said angrily, "I do not!", She was somewhat relieved at that. Weiss had an impatient look directed at Ruby, she understood that how does her not liking Jaune relate to them kissing? then Ruby said, "Well, I was afraid you were going to ki-hurt Jaune, so I went to see if everything was okay", she almost said kill didn't she before she got to ask, Ruby continued, "but everything was okay", Yang intervened again, she said teasingly, "sounds like it was better than okay".

Weiss just glared at her and motioned for Ruby to continue, she did, "Well, you guys here having fun" Yang had something to say as she wiggled her eyebrows and it was getting on her nerves, "Yeah she did". Weiss shouted at her, "Xiao-Long let your sister finish!", Yang didn't look affected and after a moment of silence Ruby continued, "It looked like Jaune was teasing you like Yang does and then…" Weiss groaned and said "We didn't kiss Ruby, he just leaned over", Ruby had a hesitant expression as she said, "But you weren't moving and… you were staring at his face".

Pyrrha heart stopped at that and then Weiss shouted, "If you had stayed a second longer you would have seen that I kicked him and went ahead", but what she said was even more worrying, so Jaune tried to kiss Weiss?, then she heard Blake's voice, "So Jaune tried to kiss you?".

Weiss sternly said, "No, he didn't, he was just mocking me", Blake seemed doubtful, "How does he leaning over, mock you?", Weiss sighed, "He was making me focus before he said something obvious". They released a collective 'Oh'. She felt the weight leaving her heart.

She could see Ruby was a bit embarrassed, but she talked anyway, "So what were you talking about?" Weiss just said simply, "He just apologized for annoying me at the start of the semester" Yang whistled at that and said, "Wow, you really let him have it, you were in there for more than ten minutes" and Weiss didn't say anything and started heading towards the exit. They followed but Ren then said, "Ruby said that he was teasing Weiss, so there must have been more to it". Weiss didn't stop and they did a light jog towards her, and she could see Weiss tensing up.

Yang was the first to speak up, and of course, she did in a teasing tone "Come on, Weiss, just admit it, there's nothing wrong with kissing Jaune Arc", she resisted the urge to strangle the blond. Weiss didn't react and just continued walking, but Yang didn't let up, "Come on, you couldn't resist him as he almost nailed you into the floor and pounded you into the wall".

They all blushed at her words, even Ren seemed a bit flustered, and she could see Weiss's ears turn a bit red, and she was walking faster. She resisted the urge to make Yang hit her own face with her own gauntlets.

She didn't have to see Yang's face to see that her grin was growing, her voice was enough as she said, "You wanted to cover all the bases! Though you did it in reverse". Weiss just hissed, "We. Didn't. Kiss". Yang then replied, "So what did you really talk about?".

They had reached the dorms, and Weiss wasn't responding Yang's question, so Ruby asked her own most likely trying to help her partner "Did you ask about Jaune's semblance or how good he was with his spear", she could see Yang moving to answer with a grin but apparently Blake thought it was enough and elbowed Yang's side, stopping her.

Weiss then sighed tiredly as they reached their rooms, "No I didn't", then Yang said seriously, "Weiss you aren't helping your case here, you didn't ask about the two major things that changed today and only said that he apologized. We also know that he was teasing you and when he leaned over, you didn't move. Not only that but you are hiding something".

Weiss just glared at her and said, "It's private", Yang's was going to say something, and she knew she wasn't going to like it so she intervened first, "We could just ask Jaune". They all looked at her and after a moment Blake said, "Yeah, Jaune isn't a great liar, so we should be able to tell".

Their team shared a glance, and she knew what they were thinking, he did forge his transcripts and got into Beacon and he still kept it from team RWBY for a long time with no problems, so...

She just unlocked the door to the room before they glanced at each other for too long. They all entered the room and Yang kept trying to pester Weiss into telling her, but she just ignores her with her scroll. The rest of them started playing or reading something in their scrolls as well, all except Ruby who just kept a guilt-filled expression as she looked at her partner.

She kept trying to distract herself with her scroll but it wasn't working as well as she was hoping, she was mostly sure that Weiss and Jaune didn't kiss, but there was still that nagging feeling in her mind.

After this going for about ten minutes, the door was open and Jaune walked in and Yang was immediately in front of him pointing an accusing finger at him as she said, "Confess! You and Weiss kissed!"

Jaune immediately had a confused expression as she looked at Weiss and said, "We did?".

Yang immediately deflated and everyone knew that they didn't kiss. She was finally relieved.