Reunion

7

Jaune lets out a battle cry as he charged and clashed swords with Pyrrha. The Spartan smirked and did a round house kick in an attempt to throw him off, but he predicted her life and leaped back. She blinked before sprinting forward with shortsword at hand. Just when Pyrrha was about to land a blow on him, Jaune suddenly raised Crocea Mors and blocked Milo with the blade. 'He's improving so much already... Is it because of Fu Hua..?' She thought with an unknown and most certain unpleasant feeling in her mind, but was snapped back into reality as she nearly got hit by a thrust attack from the blonde.

Pyrrha immediately kicks his speed out of his hands, before striking his chest plate and knocking Jaune down. "You did great Jaune. You almost had me there for a second." She complimented and helps him get back up to his feet. "Shall we move on to aura now?" "Nah. I'm thinking we should skip aura for tonight." The blonde looked away and scratched the back of his head, with something obviously on his mind. Pyrrha frowned and asked, "Jaune... If there's anything wrong, you can tell me. I am your partner after all." She placed a hand on his shoulder with a reassuring smile on her face.

Jaune let's out a sigh and continued to not make eye contact with his partner. "It's...about...Fu Hua." Her heart started to clench slightly over her name. "W-What about her?" "I was thinking...about asking her if she could go to the dance with me, but I thought that I'd just make a fool of myself and-" "Jaune." Pyrrha cuts the blonde off from rambling, making him blink. "Look at me." He turned to her, his eyes greeted with a soft smile from the Spartan.

"If you're scared of her rejecting you harshly like Weiss, don't be. You and Fu Hua have been close friends for a very long time. She cares for you, Jaune." Pyrrha removed her hand from his shoulder. "And if you somehow get rejected...You know what they say, there's always plenty of fish in the sea!" She continued and chuckled awkwardly.

That made Jaune snort a little. "Yeah, right. Easy for you to say. I bet you have guys lining up, just waiting to ask you out." The blonde replied.

"Well... You'd be surprised about this." "Oh please. If you somehow don't get a date for the dance, then I'll get onto the stage and sing. Arc's promise." Jaune waved back at Pyrrha without looking at her, and then left the rooftop. He arrived to see a package in front of team JNPR's doorstep. 'Did anyone order anything?' The blonde picked it up to see his name labeled on it. 'Oh yeah. I ordered some new clothes.'  Jaune ripped off one of its corners and checked its contents, satisfied to see everything he had ordered was in there. One of which was his new combat outfit.

With package at hand, Jaune opened the door and stepped inside. His eyes were met with the sight of Ren studying while sitting in his bed, with Nora snoring loudly as she slept with her limbs around his body. He noticed him mouthing out the words, 'Be quiet and don't ask' to him and nodded. The boy quickly placed his new set of clothes on the chair of his desk, before grabbing something Ren couldn't make out from the closet and quickly sprinting out of the room.

Jaune huffed over what he was going to do. 'This will either be fine, or simply put, just ridiculous and stupid. Probably the latter.' His shoulders slumped in nervousness, but then he took a deep breath and instantly regained his confidence. "Okay. Let's do this."

He marched up to team HKBR's dorm with a guitar, and knocked on their door. A few seconds later, the door cracked and opened, revealing Mei wearing a pink apron. "Oh, hi Jaune. What do you need?" "Hey Mei. Is Fu Hua there?" She arched her eyebrow over his question and nodded at his question. But then when she saw the musical instrument in his hands, a smile grew on her face. "Oh...I see." Mei steps back and fully opens the door to let him in. "Go on." She said.

Jaune started strumming the guitar and walked inside. "Fu Hua~" He turned to the left to see the rest of team HKBR about to eat dinner, but then all of their eyes were on him. Kiana snickered at the sight of Jaune with his guitar. The blonde winked at the martial artist, who simply smiled and rested her chin on her hand, curious on what he was about to do.