Hey, Guys, GuffeyManipulation here! Just wanted to preface this chapter with a couple updates. 1. MERRY CHRISTMAS, I'm probably going to busy for the rest of winter break, so im gonna go ahead and say this now. 2. I have started a habit of writing these chapters at midnight before I go to bed, so I can imagine the chapters have been getting worse, I am sorry about this and will try to not let it affect my writing. 3. After reading other fanfics from other people, I have seen my chapters to be much shorter than others, I am going to try to change that and increase the word count to over at least 2000 for every chapter. I won't hold you for any longer, so please enjoy the chapter!

Chapter 11: Emotions

"You are improving your duration time extensively, Mr. Leonardo. Your contained Releases are starting to last up to a complete minute!" Professor Goodwitch had been training me for about a week now, each session being about the same every time. I show up, Practice my contained Aura Releases for about an hour, and then sent either to class or back to my dorm, dead out of my mind exhausted. Today I was called in during my free time after classes for the session, running pretty late into the night.

"Of course, Professor, I have been meditating like you suggested whenever I get the chance." She says that it helps with mind control, therefore helping me stay calm while I use my Semblance. I thought it was bullshit at the beginning, but have found it a very good way to clear my mind.

"Good, I only ask that you do not practice this art in my, or my colleagues, classes." I also used it as a way to block out any sound from the outside world, making it very useful for school.

"Hehe, sorry about that I'll try to stop." Complete bull.

"Okay, good. That does it for today, you may go." She turned and walked into her office at the back of the coliseum. I turned to leave, picking up my jacket on the way out. I started to walk back to the Dorm, easily enough of a walk, I could slip into the dorm without the others noticing that I was gone, no way they stayed up this late. I checked my scroll. 11:23. Yeah, they're in bed by now. I walked to the door and pulled open the door, slowly, so I wouldn't wake anyone up, and sneaked over to my bed.

"Stop right there." I froze and turned around to see Aries waiting for me on her bed. "You and me need to have a talk, hallway, Now." She got up and walked out of the room, expecting me to follow her. I hesitated, she sounded seriously pissed. What is she going to do to me? I then slowly walked back to the door, glancing to make sure that Ryon and Virgo were asleep. When I got outside, I closed the door and turned around surprised at what I saw. Aries was sitting on the ground, looking just as exhausted as me. I sat down next to her with a sigh.

"So, what do we need to talk about?" She looked at me.

"What are you doing at these sessions of yours? You just leave sometimes without telling any of us any real answer to where you're going, and then you come back, looking like you were ran over by a dump truck! We are getting worried about you, especially Virgo."

"Wait, you worried about somebody else, that's a first." She glared at me, easily seeing through my feeble attempt to change the subject. "Okay, look. I don't think I should tell you guys about it just yet. I think it will cause problems in dangerous situations." She looked at me with a look of complete worry.

"I'm your partner, if anyone should know, it should be me. We have fought over the years, but it's not like I've kept anything from you."

"Bull"

"What?"

"Bull Crap. Look, we have known each other for years, and I trust you as much as I trust the others, but I know for a fact that there is something that you have been keeping from us, something that you know, that you would not like to share." Her eyes widened a bit, realizing what I meant. "So how about this, I'll cut you a deal. I will tell you everything about what has been going on with me, and I mean everything, as long as you trust me with that piece of information that you have been holding back on us. Do we have a deal?" She looked at me for a long while, studying my face. After a while her eyes started to swell up and water. I could tell that she was about to cry, so I did what I thought she would want me to do. I stood up and picked her up, Bridal style, and I carried her halfway across the campus, to a secluded spot where no one would hear or see us. A post I have gone a few times to meditate in the past week that is secluded enough to not be bothered by anyone, I brought her a little meadow overlooking Vale, not far from where the trial was done at the beginning of the year. I sat her down in the grass and sat next to her as she started to really cry. She pushed her head into my shoulder and cried and cried. I held on to her, ready to be there, for whatever she needed. She kept Crying until she blurted out in her tears.

"I'M IN LOVE WITH RYON!" I smiled at her honesty, and hugged her tighter than before, one hand on her back, the other in her bleached blonde hair, right under her horns. It was a while before she started to calm down and tell me the rest through the tears. "I have been thinking about him, like, a lot, and he is always there for me and has my back in whatever problem I'm in. And I have liked him for a long time, but I only really saw how much I really loved him when I didn't get him as my partner, I was so scared that I wouldn't be on his team and that we would drift apart, but we didn't we got on the same team and I have been really happy, but I'm still scared. I'm afraid that he won't accept my feelings if I tell him, he'll just turn me down and I won't be able to hang out with him anymore because it'll be weird. What am I supposed to do?" I held her out at arms length and had her look me dead in the eye.

"You tell him exactly what you just told me. You go to him and you tell him, any guy in his right mind, especially Ryon, would accept it and love you back. Just to let you know too, I've seen him for a very long time with his eyes on you. That is why he always has your back, why he's always there, because he wants to make sure your safe, so that you can always be with him." She started to whale again and cried into me even harder than last time, but this time I could tell something different. She was crying not for sadness, but for Joy. She had been holding all this in and she just needed someone to help her hold the burden. After a while she started to calm down and separate from me, sitting shoulder to shoulder with me looking over the cliff, and into Vale. After a while of us just sitting there, taking in what just happened, she broke the silence.

"Your turn."

"What?"

"We made a deal, I tell you whats been bothering me, you tell me whats going on with you. So go, tell me whats going on."

I sighed realizing that there was nothing I could do about it. I might as well tell her everything, not just the sessions. "Okay then, which would you like to hear first, My shitty social life, or about my extra Lessons?"

"Hmmmmm, Extra Lessons first."

"Okay, well let's start with my Semblance, you know about how we could never figure out what it was or anything really about it?" She nodded slowly. "Well, Ozpin does know what it is." She perked up when she heard that. "Calm down, theres somethings you should know. My Semblance does not have a name mainly because….. I am one of the only two known people that has ever had it. The last man that had it trained with Ozpin and was obsessed with figuring out his limit, he died doing this training. He created a Release so powerful that it destroyed his being, an entire army of Grimm,... and his Friend and Ally." Aries tensed up at that last part.

"But your Semblance doesn't hurt people that don't want to harm you, how could he destroy his Ally?"

"I'm not sure, maybe when you release too much Aura, or maybe when your Allies already have low Aura. I'm not sure, but this guy never found his boundary, if he had kept on training as usual and practiced releasing it bigger and bigger, I get the feeling he would still be looking for that limit today. That is why I have been attending sessions with Professor Goodwitch to practice containing my Semblance, so that if I do have to use it in the future, then I won't hurt anyone." It was a long while before Aries finally responded.

"Okay, we can help you with that." I looked up alarmed.

"What?! No, I can't let any of you guys help, I won't risk hurting you."

"Idiot, we obviously won't help you with your Aura Releases, but we can help you prepare to train with Goodwitch." I looked up, surprised.

"Really, you would help me with all this? I can't promise that these sessions will actually get results."

"Hey, of course we will help, the others will obviously agree with me."

"Okay, Thank you, I just- Thank you."

"Now that thats out of the way" and she started rubbing her hands together. "lets get on to your girl problems."

I raised my eyebrows at her. "Who said anything about girl problems?"

"Oh come on, your an open book! when it comes to girls! So tell me, whats going on?"

"huuuuuuuuh, okay I think I'm falling for two girls at the same time." I expected her to bust out laughing, calling me a dumbass and that I'll probably end up losing both of them. She instead just put her head on her knees and waited for me to tell her more. "Okay, so the first girl I have known for a while now, she's always there for me and I recently found out that she has liked me for a very long ti-"

"Virgo." She had interrupted me, guessing exactly who it was.

"How do you kn-"

"Who do you think got her through the years of you not noticing her, keeping her on her feet to keep trying?" I stared at her for a moment, just completely surprised at what she'd do to help out a friend.

"Well, now I feel like an ass.."

"Don't. I knew you two weren't ready for each other for a long time, it would not have turned out well if you guys dated while we were at Sigma. You probably would have done something really stupid and really hurt her. Now you're more mature though, so I can see it happening."

"Well, that's.. good, I guess."

"SOoooooooo, who's the other girl?"

"She is someone that is really talented and cool. We haven't known each other for nearly as long, but I can see how much she cares about her friends, how willingly she is to make the selfless move to help another, she's always so happy and upbeat and smart."

"Maya."

"Dammit, Aries you're fucking good at this!"

"It doesn't take much to see you two practically making out whenever you see each other."

"Hey, we do not!"

"And that's exactly your problem, you have two girls on a leash and you won't commit to either of them. Eventually, if you don't take action, you're going to lose both of them. Maya can get whatever guy she wants, and Virgo, well let's just say that if you keep on ignoring her, she's going to run off with someone else. Someone that'll treat her right." She said that last part with a glare at me.

I just looked down and sighed. "Well, at least the next four years of my life are going to be interesting." I down at Vale and noticed the sun had started to rise. Had we really been out here all night? "We should head back to the dorm, if the others wake up and see us gone, that probably won't end well." We both stood up and brushed off our clothes, starting to walk back to the school.

"By the way, I never thanked you for bringing me away from the others, I wouldn't be able to stand being seen cry. Also, if you tell anyone about that, I will actually rip your lungs out."

"Yeah, don't worry about, that your secrets safe with me." The two of us then just walked in silence. When we got back to the Dorm, I stopped her from walking in just yet.

"Look, Aires, talk to him, it'll work out fine in the end, you guys'll make a great couple." She then smiled at me and walked in quietly. She quickly walked straight to her bed and fell asleep, no wonder, she just had a hell of a night. I noticed that I was exhausted as well when I saw her fall on her bed. I shuffled over to my bed and fell on it, falling into dreamless sleep.

ANNNND THATS A WRAP. I pretty much put as much emotion into this chapter as I could and ended with this, pretty good by my standards. Anyway, in the future, you should expect seeing more of a connection between Leo and Aries, as to the fact that that just happened, thank you for reading and good night! GUFFEYMANIPULATION OUT!1!111!