"So how dose unlocking auras work?" Bakugo asked. "Because if it gets weird. I'll pass."

"Pyrrha did say that it was fairly intimate... is it like kissing?" Ojiro asked.

"What... no, it's... hard to describe." I had a red blush on my face.

"So the kiss wasn't needed?" Kiri asked as a joke.

"Ruby." Pyrrha gave me a stern look of disapproval.

Chapter 45: Camp part 6

I put my hand on Kyoka's shoulder, I took in a deep breath as I sensed for her soul. I could feel her heartbeat reverberate through her aura with it's unique rhythm. "For it is in passing that we achieve immortality. Through this, we become a paragon of virtue and glory to rise above all. Infinite in distance and unbound by death, I release your soul, and by my shoulder, protect thee." I step back from her as my red aura dies down, her body shrouded in a hazy purple glow that seemed to reverberate with the same rhythm as her heart. "It won't be instantaneous control, but you will be physically stronger." I said as I sat down.

"... I release your soul, and by my shoulder, protect thee." I looked over as Kirishima unlocked Bakugo's aura which radiated a angry orange glare. Iida's aura was a soft dark blue and Ojiro's had a light gold coloring to it.

"What now?" Ojiro asked as he watched the light retreat back into his body.

"Now we have to train your mind and body, it has to become second nature to you." Pyrrha explained. "Which means your going have to focus on it."

"Your going to be doing strength training, with out the use of quirks or aura." Pyrrha said.

"Why? Shouldn't we be pushing our aura to the limits?" He asked.

"Aura is the manifestation of the soul, and semblance is a physical embodiment of your core personality. Kirishima, your semblance is earth breaker, because you are sturdier then the ground you walk on. When the world pushes you down, you push back hard enough to break it. You aura will only strengthen when your at you physical and mental limits, when you are only showing who you truly are to the world." She explained as she retied her red hair in a messy bun.

"That's surprisingly spiritual." Kyoka said as she twirled her earphone jacks.

"It's literally training who you are... how much more spiritual do you want?" I asked.

"Well... I mean you world evolved with this as fact." She said as she hid a blush of embarrassment.

"Training your very soul? I guess that there is no more honest work the physical labour." Ojiro said.

"Well if that's the case we need wood split." Tiger said from behind me making me jump. "Get to work."

"How dose he do that? First it was this morning." I asked as I looked at the giant cat man.

"Well you heard him get chopping, I have more personal training with Ruby." She grabbed the back of my shirt as she walked away from the group. "Remember no aura or quirks." She said as I reached back.

"Save me..."

I staggered back to the tables as everyone else finished up cooking supper. I was beaten up, bruised and filthy. Pyrrha was as usual fine, except for the slowly closing gash across her stomach. Her ashen guts glowed a dull red as they brightened and dimmed with her breathing. "Congratulations Ruby, you can now begin the second step of your training plan." She said.

"Second step?" Deku asked. "You have been pushing her non stop for the last few weeks."

"Yes, I know, her goal this entire time was to land a single normally fatal hit on me." She smiled. "It was to get her to not hesitate while having a clear head."

"What is training on Remnant normally like?" Aizawa asked.

"No different then what you've been doing. This is a special case, had we had more time I wouldn't be pushing so hard." Pyrrha explained.

"And her semblance makes that near impossible, I had to throw sand in her eyes first." I groaned as I sat down.

"Which I promptly got you back for that dirty trick." She said as she sat next to me.

"You threw me through a tree." I said as I pulled a splinter out of my hair. "Any one want to spar with her tomorrow?" I asked.

"I do need a good warm up." Bakugo said with a smile.

"It would be a pleasure." She smiled with her ever present smile.

"Well Rose, if you could go shower up before supper, we would appreciate that." Mandalay said with a smile as I stood up again.

I rubbed the soap in my hair as dirt dripped down the drain, the water was steaming hot feeling nice against my freezing back, the flashes weren't as bad as they used to be. 'I have been beaten and wounded by everything but the villains.' I mused in my head as I ran a finger across the silvery scar on my cheek. The scar I had gotten the day I had met Kiri. 'I wonder what Yang would say? After trying to kill him?' I chuckled as I washed the grim and sweat off my naked body. 'Wiess would say something like he's a meathead. If Blakes books have anything to say about her tastes, she would approve... she wouldn't approve of my plan to kill Cinder... even if it's has to be done.' I frowned when I thought of the faunas.

She wasn't going to condone it. And I knew that. But that wouldn't change the fact of what I had to do when I eventually went home...

Home. I still wasn't sure which was home now. Here with Kiri, or back on Remnant. 'I can't just leave them again. But I can't just turn away from my friends here. Wiess would know what to do, she always did.' I wiped a tear from my eye, or was it just water I couldn't tell.

And thus concludes yet another chapter, I promise the next one will be longer. My grandfather is doing better, he'll be in the hospital for the next few days.