Heart to Heart
Chapter 6: A Step Closer
Ruby yawned as she descended the stairs for breakfast, after training, she had spent the afternoon taking apart her weapon and cleaning it, then adjusting it and sharpening the blades. She loved Crescent Rose like it was her child but the weapon was very high maintenance. All those moving parts, cleaning the barrel of dust residue alone took a good amount of time. But she liked doing it, it was calming and now her weapon was in tip top shape.
"Oh that looks good," Yang grinned seeing the breakfast.
"Mom always did make great breakfast," Blake smiled seeing her mom along with Ren and Jaune finishing up. "Although I'm starting to feel bad for not helping out."
"Well we can clean up at least," Weiss shrugged happy to be finally back in clothing that was more her style. After the shopping trip, she felt a bit more at ease with the supplies they had gotten.
Ruby then stopped near the end of the stairs seeing someone on one of the couches laying on it and still looked asleep.
"Has Oscar been down here the entire time?" She asked looking around.
"He was down here when I got here," Blake's mom said looking at the young boy. "I think he fell asleep but I didn't have the heart to wake him."
Ruby went over to the boy as he was on his stomach, his face resting towards the table. She looked to see a scroll there. She picked it up but it was locked, with a shrug she placed it back down and gently rocked the boy.
"Oscar, hey Oscar breakfast is ready." She said gently.
The boy groaned but only turned around. She tried again as his eyes opened; they looked a bit red as he yawned. "What time is it?"
"It's morning," Ruby looked a bit worried at him. "How long were you up for?"
"Pretty late," he sighed and slowly shifted to a sitting position. He barely got any sleep and felt like crap because of it. "I was going over what Qrow and Ilia got last night."
"Wait, what happened?" Blake asked hearing this.
"I helped Qrow get some files from Lionheart's computer before the police started to take everything today," Ilia explained.
"When where you going to tell us this?" Yang crossed her arms given that there weren't supposed to be any more secrets.
"This morning," Oscar yawned again. "We were hoping that Lionheart might have kept confidential files on anything related to Salem."
"Did you find anything?" Ruby helped him to the table as Oscar fell into the chair.
"A name kept coming up for meetings," Oscar blearily looked down at the table. "Watts."
"That a first or last name?" Weiss asked next.
"No idea," Oscar looked like he wanted to fall asleep at the table as his eyes were blinking slowly.
"Oscar do you want to go to bed?" Kali said worriedly at the young boy.
"No it's okay the cat's got it with the salad." He muttered at her.
"W-what?" Kali blinked at the answer.
"Okay I think he needs some sleep," Ruby got up and helped to guide him back to the upstairs rooms. "Save me some of the good stuff while I help him to bed."
"Of course," Weiss told her partner.
Ruby gently led the boy up the stairs as she wasn't sure how awake Oscar was at the moment. She was wondering why Ozpin wasn't taking over and letting Oscar rest but maybe Ozpin was tired as well. Ruby had no idea how this whole thing worked between them but there did seem to be a limit to how long Ozpin could remain in control.
She passed her uncle on the way to the room as she explained what she was doing. He shrugged it off and let her do her thing. Ruby opened the door as she led Oscar to his bed, at least she was pretty sure it was his bed. It was the only one that was tidy and the messy one would most likely be her uncle's bed.
"Come on Oscar," She told him pulling back the covers for him.
He muttered something she didn't get as he fell onto the bed face down. She smirked as she decided to help him get his shoes off at the very least. She looked at him and wondered how comfortable he could be sleeping in his clothing but she immediately knew that there was no way in hell she was taking anything more off him. That wouldn't be right and what if he woke up? How would she explain that?
Feeling her cheeks heat up a bit she shook her head and pulled the covers back up. She pulled the curtains to make sure the sunlight didn't wake him. She suddenly heard him mutter something as her attention went back to him.
Going a bit closer she wanted to make sure that he was actually asleep but he looked to be talking in his sleep.
"Gloria go…we'll defend the pass…vital…Grimm…I'll see you soon…get…Vashton…"
Ruby wasn't sure what he was talking about the only thing seemed to be about the Grimm which was a common thing in this world where monsters lived. She gently stroked his hair as he seemed to settle slightly. She remembered dad saying this was how mom would calm her down in a nightmare. She wished she had more than just vague memories of her mom but her mother had died when she was very young.
As Oscar settled in, she quietly left the room, as she made sure to make as little noise as possible until she reached the stairs. As she got down, she noticed that her uncle was gone.
"Hey where's Uncle Qrow?"
"He said he was going to start looking into a boat for us or some other way into Atlas," Yang told her. "He said not expect him for a few days at least."
"Oh," then she noticed Blake's and dad were cleaning up what looked like a spill. "Something happen?"
"It was the strangest thing," Kali spoke up. "I was just bringing coffee over and the cup broke in my hand. Only the handle was left and the rest smashed against the table."
"Never seen anything like that," Sun nodded his head. "I mean what are the odds right?"
"Oh." Ruby said flatly as she looked to Jaune, Nora and Ren with a knowing look.
The others picked up on it as Yang looked to her sister. "What's going on?"
"It was Uncle Qrow's semblance."
"Wait you know his semblance!?" Yang shot up. "We've been trying to get him to tell us that for years and you already knew and didn't tell me!"
Ruby blinked as she got an embarrassed look on her face. "Oops…I guess we skipped over that." She tried to laugh but it just fell flat.
Yang crossed her arms, sat down, and gave her sister a hard look. "Well?"
"Oh uh, well the thing is Uncle Qrow's semblance is actually luck based." Ruby explained. "Only it's bad luck and he said it builds up over time or something like that so bad things tend to happen around him. I guess that's why he's never in the same place too often or when he visited us he didn't stay for long."
Yang was surprised although looking back on it, what Ruby said made sense. Qrow never really stayed around for long periods. In fact, she remembered some odd things happening when he was around now. When she was showing off her bike for the first time, she had gotten a flat one second after starting it up. "Huh, that explains some things."
"Wow talk about an unlucky semblance," Sun commented earning a slight kick under the table from Blake sitting next to him. "Sorry I didn't mean it to sound so, well mean."
"I think he would just laugh it off," Ruby told him with a shrug.
"So how's Oscar?" Nora asked as she poured herself a very healthy helping of syrup onto her favorite food among foods, pancakes.
"He fell asleep as soon as he hit the bed," Ruby sat down starting on building her own breakfast plate. "He was talking in his sleep too."
"Anything juicy?" Yang grinned.
"Really Yang?" Weiss rolled her eyes. "He's like fourteen."
"Hey boys grow up fast plus he does have a lot of memories too," she defended herself.
Ruby wasn't sure what her sister was talking about but she thought back to it. "It didn't make any sense to me. He said someone named Gloria or maybe it was Glory, something about defending a pass, Grimm and a word, Vashton?"
Kali, Ghira, Blake, Weiss all suddenly looked to Ruby.
"Did you say Vashton?" Weiss asked.
"Uh…yeah why?"
"It was a famous battle against a horde of Grimm," Ghira thought back to it. "It was several centuries ago. A small town called Vashton was about to be overrun with Grimm but they were taking a small enclosed valley to get there. Five warriors stood their ground giving the people time to flee."
"Oh so they stopped them?" Ruby looked excited.
"No, they died," Blake told her friend. "They were a mixed group, even a faunus was in there but they fought to the last. Everyone in the village lived but they didn't."
"The names of The Five were forgotten by history," Weiss said next thinking back on it. "They were just known as The Five and the survivors called them heroes and they eventually became legends."
You want to play the hero? Then die like every other Huntsman in history!
Roman's words suddenly came back to her from that night on the airship. She paused to look at her plate. Had he been right about that? Is that was happened to heroes in real life? Before Beacon she would have said all heroes live and win the day but after that night. After losing two of her friends, her team shattering, Yang losing an arm she wasn't so sure anymore.
"So does that mean that boy was there?" Ghira mused to himself. "Remarkable. He could actually remember who The Five were."
"He might have been one of them from the sounds of it," his wife shook her head to think that there was someone alive who actually remembered legends and heroes from their world's history. Who knew who else the boy had been previous or known in a past life?
"Man, Ozpin really got around," Nora chuckled.
-Later-
Yang was in the gym on a bench press with Nora spotting her, the two girls were doing some physical training at the moment and Yang was pushing hard on the bar in her hands pushing it up as Nora's hands were hovering just under it.
"Almost there, come on push deep! Show those weights whose boss!" Nora encouraged.
Yang with one last push placed it onto the small metal hooks. She let her arms drop with sigh as she felt the burning of her muscles. Her orange t-shit was sweaty and she needed a breather.
"Nice one," Nora had finished her set before Yang so she had recovered first. She went over to grab Yang's water bottle and passed it to the blonde who eagerly took it. "So how does it fell with the new arm?"
Yang shrugged, "Basically the same only it doesn't get tired or worn out like the rest of me, I do have to adjust in some things since it makes me feel kind of 'lopsided' at times when I'm pushing myself."
She sat up to take a towel on the ground and wipe away some of the sweat that had built up. It had been a long time since she got in a decent workout like this. Training in battle was all-good but you had to train your body as well and she hadn't been able to do much while on the road after leaving home.
"So what's next on the agenda?" Nora asked stretching out.
Yang picked up her scroll that was set aside to check the time. "Well it's nearly time for Jaune's hand to hand lessons."
"Yeah I guess I could use a little of that too," Nora grinned. "But then I got my Renny to help me in that, oh maybe I can learn awesome ninja moves and how to walk in shadows!"
"I don't think Ren knows how to 'walk in shadows' Nora," Yang smirked.
"You never know! He could and we just never see him because he can," Nora grinned back at her.
Yang shook her head she missed handing out like this, Nora while a bit on the crazy side was a good kind of crazy that Yang could get behind. Plus she was one of the few people that could keep up with her, hell sometimes Nora was a challenge to keep up as the girl never seemed to tire most days.
"So Nora," Yang spoke up. "I've noticed that you and Ren have been a bit closer, closer than I remember at least."
"Oh that," Nora scratched the back of her head and Yang was surprised the girl was actually quiet for a moment. "Well some things happened on the way here."
"Good things?" Yang grinned.
The red head actually blushed as she waved her hands frantically in front of her. "No-no-no! Nothing like that, it's just…well. We've always been together, just not together-together."
"And are you together-together now?"
"Ehhhh, closer but not there yet?" Nora shrugged.
Yang blinked not sure what that meant. "Okay Nora I'm going to ask this, do you like him?" She cut her off before she could answer to continue. "And I don't mean how you always liked him. I mean like-like, as in boyfriend and girlfriend like."
Nora sat down on a bench and looked at her shoes. "Yeah."
"So why haven't you gone and done something?" Yang asked gently sitting across from her.
The girl just shrugged, "When we survived the destruction of our village he was all I had, literally Yang. He was the one solid rock I had, he saved me that night and I just feel safe when I'm around him. I feel like everything will be okay as long as Ren is there."
"He was also my best friend and still is, we've always had each other's backs growing up and then one day I started to notice that my best friend made me feel…other things."
"I started to feel more than just friendship with him and on the way here we kind of, I don't know. Sometime we just feel things instead of speaking them but I'm still not sure where we stand."
Yang looked at her friend and again thought back to how Jaune and Pyrrha had ended, how Blake was hesitant about Sun. She didn't want to see her friends waste potential at happiness because she knew that it could be gone in a moment.
"Well maybe you should just come out and do something about it," Yang offered.
"You think so?" Nora had wanted to do something for a while now but things kept happening. They didn't really have time to talk since they had left the remains of their village with Qrow near death from that poison. They had no time since they got here with everything going on in fact this was the first kind of break they had in a long time.
"Hey it would be nice to see at least one couple getting together," Yang shrugged. "Given how Blake is about her feelings it's hard to say if she'll admit she likes Sun."
"Tell me about it," Nora laughed. "It's so obvious she likes him but it's like she doesn't want to admit it."
"Might be because of how bad her last relationship went," Yang sighed remembering what Blake told them. Honestly Blake, Adam of all people? Talk about bad choices in life.
"Well whatever you choose to do Nora take some advice," Yang got up as she packed up her stuff. "Don't wait too long, I don't want what to happen between you happen between Jaune and Pyrrha."
Nora's eyes widened a bit as she looked down at the memory of her friend. She had always suspected that Pyrrha had feelings for Jaune but she figured things would work out over time. It never did work out, in fact the worst outcome had happened. During that fight with the Nuckelavee things had gotten too close to one of them nearly dying from that creature.
Then she remembered their last fight and how in that, Weiss had nearly died.
"I think it's time Ren and me had a talk," Nora said.
"You sure?"
Nora looked up at the blonde and nodded with a determined look in her eyes. "Yeah, I think it's time."
Yang broke out into a large smile, "Go get'im girl."
She was happy that something good was going to happen as she left for the dojo. It wasn't a far walk and she could hear the clang of metal. She slide open the door to see Weiss and Jaune sparring with their swords.
"Remember keep your balance," Weiss thrust with her weapon as Jaune parried and countered.
"Right," He watched as she dodged the blow with the usual grace she had. She slashed at him as he used his shield to stop it and thrust with his own blade. Weiss turned her body so that the blade passed by her within inches and with a flick of her wrist sent her blade to his throat.
"You over extended," she calmly told him as they pulled back.
"Yeah I've been noticing that," Jaune sighed it was an issue had had been finding out in his sparing sessions with her. "I'm also not used to fighting someone left handed. The reach feels strange for some reason."
Weiss nodded her head, "Yes well given that most people are right handed you don't get much experience with it and it tends to throw your opponents off."
"Same thing happens in boxing or any fight with punches," Yang offered as she entered the room.
"Oh is it time to switch up?" Weiss had lost track of time as she and Jaune went to the benches to get water and wipe off any sweat that had accumulated.
"Yep, so no Blake today?" Yang looked around.
"She'll be training Jaune tomorrow," Weiss explained. "At the moment she's with a group session outside with Ren, Ilia, Sun and herself."
Yang thought about that, "Huh, so pretty much all our ninja types together. Man that should be interesting."
"Ninja types?" Jaune asked her after finishing his drink.
"Well Sun would be more of a Rogue, Ren is basically a ninja, Ilia I guess would be more like an assassin and Blake…hmmm. I'm thinking spy or infiltrator." Yang thought it out.
Both Weiss and Jaune blinked at the girl not sure how she came up with that.
"What?" Yang asked with a shrug. "I had a friend in Signal that was into RPG table top games and I picked up a few things by being around her."
"You ever played?" Jaune asked curious now.
"Once," Yang paused. "It…didn't go well. I stick to board games and card games rather than that stuff."
"Don't remind me about card games," Weiss groaned. "What was that thing we played back in Beacon again?"
"Oh yeah I remember now," Yang smiled at the memory of them using the library to play Conquest of Remnant. "You're just mad because you lost."
"I didn't even know how to play!" Weiss defended.
"Maybe we should make a game night," Jaune commented offhandedly.
Yang's eyes lit up at that, "Oh! We're totally doing that, we can't just train all the time. We got to have some fun sometimes or else we're just going to go nuts."
"As long as it's not that game again," Weiss muttered putting away her sword. She paused as she looked to Jaune. "You're getting better you just need to stop rushing and take your time."
"Thanks for this Weiss," He said honestly.
She nodded and then cast a look at Yang, she wanted to say something but wasn't sure if she wanted to do it with someone watching. Well given how crowded the place was having a quiet moment wasn't exactly easy. She took a breath and looked Jaune in the eyes.
"Jaune I never properly thanked you yet either." She told the tall boy.
"Thanks for what?" he asked confused.
She rolled her eyes, "For saving my life Jaune."
"Oh that, Weiss I would have done that for anyone especially my friends."
"Still I owed you and a Schnee always pays their debts and I still owed you a thank you so," She stood up on her toes because of his height and gave him a kiss on his cheek. The boy's face blushed as he stared wide-eyed at the girl.
"That was platonic so don't get any ideas," she warned him.
"O-oh, right," he stammered as he scratched the back of his head.
Weiss nodded as she quickly left but Yang caught the slight blush on the girl's face most likely because she knew that Weiss wasn't used to showing displays like that especially with witnesses.
Yang grinned at Jaune who looked to be still a little shocked. "You might actually have a chance, you want to give it another shot going after Weiss?"
That pulled him out of his thoughts and shook his head, "She said it was platonic."
"Eh, girl's can change their mind you know."
Jaune paused; he would be lying if he said there was a part of him that wasn't thinking it. He had been after Weiss since they first met although after enough rejections he gave up on it and just settled for being her friend. Still that younger part of him was slightly hoping that Weiss might like him more than just a friend.
As he thought about it, some more he sighed and shook his head. "I don't think so. Weiss will always be my first major crush but I think I just prefer to be her friend for now. Man if the younger me could hear me now…"
Yang grinned, "He most likely would be pulling his hair out."
"Maybe even screaming to the heavens," both shared a small laugh. "Besides I think we both grew up a little and changed a bit. We're not the same people we were, man it's strange how fast you can change in such a short time. It feels like a lifetime ago but it wasn't even a year."
Yang nodded her head although she felt she was doing well with Nora and Ren so maybe she could put this on the back burner for now. "Alright put the sword and shield away, we're going to put into practice what you learned yesterday."
"You got it," He grinned doing as she said and then joining her in the center of the room. He put his guard up like she had showed him.
"Okay we'll start off slow and move faster but again, any mistakes and I will tag you. No gloves this time so get ready." Yang put her fists up shifting her feet and getting herself ready. She could see the intensity in Jaune's eyes as he readied himself she found that she rather liked that look.
He had definitely gotten a bit more confident in battle since school.
So she decided to test him out to see what he learned from yesterday. She started out slow as she didn't bother to call out her blows, what would be the point as it's not like the enemy announce their attacks like in certain animated shows. Then again her team did have attack names that Ruby called out now that she thought about it. But those were code words so the enemy wouldn't know what was going to happen to them.
She tried to gauge Jaune's reaction time, it seemed pretty on par to what he did yesterday. So she started to try to go with simple combos to see how he handled it. She was happy to see that he kept his guard up and followed through with counter hits.
They didn't get a solid land on her of course but she was still happy he wasn't going on just the defensive for this.
They continued on but Yang felt that maybe it was time to give him something heh wouldn't expect to liven up the training. She waited for a combo she had used before but instead of the final punch she suddenly threw out a side kick as Jaune on instinct blocked it as he jumped back.
"Hey you never said you were going to throw kicks!" he challenged her.
"Never said I wasn't either," Yang smiled at him. "You think the bad guys are going to tell us how they're going to fight and what they're going to throw at us?"
"Okay point taken."
They went back at it as Yang would throw in a random kick or would pull her punch at the last moment to fake him out only to come at him from a different angle. Jaune did his best to keep up but she was fast and as they kept going she only seemed to get faster. It wasn't until the sweat dripping from their brows were getting into their eyes did the two of them stop for a moment.
Both combatants took a break, Jaune felt his lungs working to just suck in enough air for his body. Yang had always been one of the strongest of their year and she hadn't slowed down some. He was always amazed at her strength and even now as he looked at her he could tell she wouldn't go down easy. She was breathing hard, sweating but still her guard was up perfectly and her eyes bore on him, looking for any hint of an attack and judging for any weaknesses.
He suddenly was reminded of his lessons with Pyrrha, she had been calculating and methodical. Yang on the other hand was more passion and explosive. There was a hint of her being slightly more planning now, at least to him it seemed so.
Jaune could feel that she still had energy to burn but he kept at it as he pulled his arms up back into a fighting stance.
"Oh sorry I didn't know anyone else was here," Oscar's voice was heard from the doorway.
The two blondes paused looking at him.
"Oh hey you're up," Yang smiled at the young boy as both she and Jaune relaxed and took a more normal stance with each other. "Feeling better?"
"Yeah much," Oscar scratched the back of his head. "I was looking to see where everyone was I didn't know you two were already training."
"Yeah Yang's helping me with my hand to hand," Jaune explained.
There was a pause as Oscar's eyes glowed and his whole demeanor changed. "You have a very good teacher as Miss Xiao Long is an excellent choice."
"Thanks," Yang grinned but then she noticed Jaune's change. His smile dropped as soon as Ozpin was in control and he was avoiding looking at the boy.
"Since you've also unlocked your semblance I would suggest taking time for that as well to see what the full effect of it is."
"Yeah thanks," Jaune said in a cold voice turning away.
Ozpin looked at the boy and seemed simply let Oscar take back control. The boy felt a bit awkward with how the room felt at the moment. "So, uh…I think I'll go and see if anyone else is up for some training I guess."
Yang watched the boy leave before turning to Jaune. "Okay I've been noticing this for awhile now but you really don't like Ozpin at the moment."
Jaune paused as he took a breath, "I don't."
There was a pause as Yang wanted to bring it up but wasn't sure if she should. This really looked to bother Jaune though and maybe he needed another talk. "Do you blame him for what happened?"
"He brought her into this war, he put her into that machine and she went through so much because he put her there." Jaune's fist clenched remembering those final days. Pyrrha had been so stressed those days, like the weight of the world had been on her shoulders. Looking back, he knew now what had been giving her so much trouble.
"She would never have gone to that tower that night if he hadn't forced her into this." He said angrily.
"I don't think he forced her into this Jaune," Yang said softly. "You know what she was like, she wouldn't have been able to turn a blind eye to something like that."
"Exactly!" he turned to look at her. "He knew she couldn't say no, he knew the kind of person she was!"
Yang had never seen such anger in the boy's eyes, it was kind of scary in a way. She stood her ground though. "Jaune do you know that's what he did or what you think he did?"
"What difference does it make Yang?"
"It might," she took a moment to calm down. "Jaune have you tried talking to him about this?"
"What's the point?" He sighed angrily. "It won't change anything."
"True but I think you might need to if only for some closure," she countered. "I don't know how exactly it happens but Ozpin might not be with us forever."
Jaune was silent thinking about it. There was a lot he wanted to say to Ozpin but what was the point? She was still dead and nothing he said would change that, no matter how much he wished it could.
"There's another thing, when Oscar and Ozpin finally merge how will you deal with it? Will you blame Oscar for something Ozpin did then?" She asked.
Jaune hadn't thought about that, he was used to thinking of them as two different people but Ozpin explained that eventually their memories would merge and then what would the boy be? Jaune had nothing against Oscar, in fact he liked the boy. He reminded Jaune a lot of how he had been when he first got to Beacon. Out of his element surrounded by people so much stronger than him and put into dangerous situations.
"I'll think about it," he simply told her.
"Okay," Yang nodded her head she got the feeling pushing him anymore on this might not be a good idea. She needed to change the subject and figured what Ozpin had said might be a good idea.
"So, any ideas on how to train your semblance? Because I don't think we want to get injured just for that." She told him.
"I really wouldn't want that," he sighed thinking about it. "Plus it's not exactly healing, it's more like I can use my aura to help someone else' aura."
Yang thought about that, "So, what does that mean exactly?"
"I'm not sure," Jaune scratched the back of his head looking at her. "I mean yeah it helps with someone's natural healing abilities but I have to wonder if that's it. I don't know much about aura so I'm not sure what else I can do with it."
"Is if other people or can you alter your own as well?" Yang thought about it.
Jaune paused it never occurred to him to try it on himself. "I…don't know."
"Give it a shot," Yang gestured for him to try it out.
"Okay, let me see if I can do this." He closed his eyes as he felt for his aura. Ever since Pyrrha had unlocked it for him she had helped him in accessing it. Now he could use his aura like any other huntsman. He stood there as his face got a concentrating look on it but he wasn't sure what he was doing.
He thought back to when he healed Weiss in how he reached with out with his aura to her. Only this time when he got a hold of his aura he wasn't sure what to do next. First he just tried to 'pull' it out and then put it back in but that didn't feel right. He tried thinking of it like a circle and spinning it around but that didn't work either.
"Trouble?" Yang asked after waiting a few minutes.
Jaune's eyes snapped open and nodded. "Yeah I can feel my aura but I don't know what to do with it. When I use it on another person I just kind of 'pour' it into them. Like pouring water out of one glass into another but how do I pour water from the same glass into itself?"
Yang thought about it, it sounded like some kind of zen riddle, she hated those things they never seem to have a decent answer to her. "Maybe you're thinking of it the wrong way. It sounds like you're trying to push your aura all over yourself, right?"
"Right."
"Okay…well how about just certain parts of your bodies? You know like how when we get hurt we can push your aura to that injured part of the body and it heals faster?"
"Okay I'll try that."
"Let's go for something simple," she went up to him and placed her palm out to him. "Put it into your arm and hit my hand as hard as you can."
"Are you sure?" he was hesitant because it was her bare hand and they weren't using gloves.
"I'm a big girl Jaune, now get to it." She told him.
"Okay if you're sure," He got into a stance and felt the power of his aura as he tried to do what she said. He felt it and started to push it into his arm he thought of how a coil or a spring was when it was tightened and imagined that for his arm. Then he felt it, the aura in his arm felt like there was a pressure building up. When he felt he had reached the full force he opened his eyes and with a cry punched Yang's hand.
There was a loud impact as Yang's arm was sent flying back.
"Son of a bitch!" Yang cried out as she held her wrist her hand shaking.
"Yang!" Jaune went over to her concerned. "Are you okay, oh man please tell me I didn't hurt you."
"I think I'm good," Yang said in obvious pain. "I actually felt that."
Although she could take hits and get power from that that didn't mean she didn't feel pain. Every blow hurt to some extent plus she hadn't really had her aura ready for that kind of power. She figured it would be slightly enhanced that felt a lot harder than she thought he could get.
"Here let me help," He gently took her arm as she let him. She watched as his white aura glowed in his arms as her own yellow answered it. The numbness slowly went away, there was a throbbing pain but it was slowly starting to go away.
"Well at least now we know the answer," Yang told him. "Damn it's like you got several times stronger with that punch."
"You think so?" Jaune looked up at her from her arm.
"Yeah, I guess it's kind of like with my semblance the more damage I take the more I can give it back," Yang thought about it. "So I guess as long as your aura lasts you can boost yourself or others, huh, I wonder if that's how it really works?"
"I'm not sure but it seems like at least I have a starting point, thanks for that."
"Hey helping each other is part of the package," Yang paused as she smiled at him. "So, my hands all better now you going to let it go anytime soon?"
"Huh? Oh! Right sorry," he quickly let go blushing.
Teasing him was just so easy but it was also so much fun. Shaking her hand and flexing it everything seemed to be working just fine. "Well I think we should take a break."
"Yeah I don't feel like training anymore at the moment," He really had to think about if he wanted to talk to Ozpin or not now and it wasn't leaving his head.
"Yeah time for a shower, for the both of us at least," Yang sniffed herself a bit all the sweat was starting to add up. "Hey how about a movie night? I could use a good action film."
"Yeah that would be nice actually," Jaune nodded his head. "How about Spruce Willis?"
"Hell yeah!" Yang perked up. "He's one of my favs, that and Silvester Stallion, oh and I love martial art action films like Jet Black Lee."
"I always liked Jacke Clan." Jaune shrugged.
Yang had a large grin on his face, "Damn it why didn't you ever tell me you were an action fan? We could have hanged out watching films all the time back in Beacon."
He just shrugged, "It just never came up."
"Well now that is going to change," she replied placing her hands on her hips. "I'm not letting my new action film buddy alone. Come on I think I still got a collection on my scroll."
She said as she led the way out of the dojo.
"You know its so nice to finally have someone else that likes those films."
"Didn't anyone else on your team like them?" He asked curiously.
"Well Ruby was good but she also liked horror films, never liked those much myself." Yang really didn't know how her cute little sister could be into such things. "Weiss was more into the dramas, Blake's taste kind of vary. She seems to be into noir stuff at times but tragic or star-crossed lovers type of stuff. What about your team?"
"Well you'll be happy to know that Nora also likes action films but not so much the martial arts ones."
"Boo," Yang joked.
"Ren is actually into musicals."
"Wait, seriously!?" Yang looked at him like he grew a second head.
"Yeah I know but he likes them," He stopped there as he didn't want to bring Pyrrha up she apparently liked romance films. Looking back he was wondering if she had been trying to show him something but he was just too dense to figure it out.
"Well come on, movie night is on me then buddy," Yang nudged him in his side seeing that downed look in his eyes. She knew what he had been thinking and she had just gotten him in a better mood and she wasn't going to have Brooding Jaune around for the moment.
TBC…