Heart to Heart

Chapter 17: Preparations

Yang groaned as she walked through the streets of Mistral with everyone. Her feet were killing her as Weiss was taking them to every dust store she could find to get just the right supplies for their trip that was coming up. Ruby wanted to see if she could get any new modifications to her weapon, Blake was talking to Ilia who both were just looking for simple things. Ilia was actually looking for some new clothing as she had only the White Fang suit and a couple of outfits since leaving Menagerie.

It had been a few days since her first date with Jaune and the two of them had gone out each night. Of course, by now it was also known that Blake and Sun were opening seeing each other, boy was her father not happy about it but Kali seemed to keep things peaceful.

Yang's problem at the moment, however was that her feet were killing her, she had gone out clubbing with Jaune and they had spent the night just dancing it away. She was really starting to like dancing with Jaune. He could keep up with her and even push her in dancing. The times they did the slow dancing were also very nice for her. The problem though was with all that time on her feet and all the walking today her feet was killing her.

"Come on guys do we really need to do this now?" Yang complained.

"We need to prepare," Weiss stated. "We have no idea what we're going to face and also it's best to be prepared."

"Yeah we might not be able to have the time later on," Ruby nodded and then noticed Yang's face. "Are your feet really that bad?"

"Yes!"

"You should have tried walking here," Ruby muttered remembering all those blisters and the pain she got. The bottoms of her feet nearly had a layer of touch skin on them now from the months of walking.

"Jaune told me about that," Yang nodded. "Which is why I need a break, I road my bike most of the way here sis."

"We're going to leave soon, we should get prepared," Weiss told her.

Yang groaned, "I already got everything I need, plus I already gave Bumblebee a tune-up and that's the most work I needed to do. I can't think of much else I might need, at least at the moment."

"What about rounds?" Ruby asked.

Yang shrugged, "Didn't use much, still got plenty of that but that's easy enough to get more."

"Actually now that you mention it I could use a few more rounds, maybe some special ones," Blake thought out loud. She had used most of the special dust rounds back at her parents' house after all. They had come in handy so maybe a few more might work out too.

"I'm lucky I don't use much in my weapon," Ilia shrugged. "I've always been more of a melee fighter anyway."

"Oh yeah you're weapon is so cool," Ruby grinned at the Faunus girl. "How long did it take you to get the segmentations right? It looks like it was complicated to get set up but once you did I bet it's easy enough for maintenance."

"Uh, actually you're right it took me time to get it to work right." The girl remembered making her weapon. "Took forever it seemed, every time I thought I had it, then it would extend when I didn't want it to or only parts of it did."

"Yep you can tell a lot about a person from their weapons," Ruby grinned at her.

"That's because you're a weapon fanatic," Yang rolled her eyes.

"I like weapons, so what?" Ruby asked slightly offended.

"I swear instead of playing with dolls she played with huntresses and grimm and has been looking at weapon magazines ever since she could read." Yang joked.

"Weapons are my hobby," Ruby pouted.

"We know." Weiss sighed patting her on the shoulder. "I still remember having to tell you to pick up those magazines of yours all the time."

"I got better." Ruby muttered to herself looking down.

Yang winced as she hissed out a breath. "Okay seriously I think I need to sit down somewhere."

"Do you really need a break?" Blake asked concerned.

"Yes," Yang told her as the pain in her feet was climbing up her calves to her knees now. She wasn't sure she could take a few more hours of this. She needed to sit down soon or else her feel felt like they might start bleeding on her. Not that they would but that's what it was feeling like at the moment.

"Okay Yang I think you should get back to the house," Blake told her.

"Yeah I think I need to rest up," Yang paused as everyone stopped.

Ruby looked on concerned with her sister, she really did look like she was in pain. "Yang do you need one of us to help you back?"

Yang thought about it, "Naw I think I can make it back, I don't want to get in the way of your shopping anyway."

"We can always go later," Blake started to say.

"Trust me I got this, I'm not going to collapse in the middle of the street," At least that's what Yang hoped wouldn't happen.

Not too much later Jaune was on the couch polishing his sword, he had already used a wet stone to keep the edge nice and sharp but he needed to do the usual maintenance. A small smile came to his face remembering how Pyrrha had taught him how to properly care for a sword. He looked over the blade as it looked nice and clean. That's when the door opened as he turned to see Yang almost dragging herself back inside.

"Ugh." She moaned going to a seat and just falling into it letting her body go loose.

"I thought you went out shopping with the others?" Jaune asked her.

"I did, I was," Yang stretched out her legs. "All the dancing we did last night and then going for a long walk? Not the best idea I had."

Jaune felt a bit of pity for his girlfriend, he was more used to being on his feet by this point but even still his feet still ached a bit from last night. It had been a fun night out and he really enjoyed dancing with Yang, it was nice they could bond over a shared interests like that.

Putting his weapon on the table he walked over to her. "Need anything?"

"New legs would be nice," She said.

"Well I might be able to help you out a bit." Jaune offered.

She looked at him with a cocked eyebrow at this point she was going to take anything she could get.

It was much later when the rest of the group returned, they had found some of the items they needed. Weiss carried a large metallic case she planned to fill with the selected dusk canisters she had bought that thankfully Blake was helping her by carrying the small case containing them.

"I can't believe you spent that much on a suitcase." Ruby said again.

"Ruby, it's not a suitcase it's a specially made carrying case for dust," Weiss sighed having already explained this. "Don't you remember what happened when we first met?"

"Hard to forget," Ruby grumbled.

"Well this is why I need it," She went on as they got to the stairs. "You have to be careful when you carry dust or else they could explode if not handled properly."

"She's right," Ilia stated. "I've seen what happens when someone isn't careful with dusk."

"Same." Blake commented although no one brought up how they knew. Everyone had a silent understanding that it was most likely White Fang related and they just left it at that.

As they reached their room Weiss was about to open the door when a noise was heard that none of them had expected.

"Ohhhh god yes Jaune," Yang's voice came out in a long drawn out groan that could only be described as pleasure.

They all froze in shock.

"T-they're not doing what I think they're doing right?" Weiss whispered looking at her friends who all had on looks that she guessed mirror her own.

"Can you push it in deeper?" Yang asked.

"I can try but I didn't want to push too much, it might hurt." Jaune's replay was heard.

"I'm a big girl I can take iiiiiiaahhhh!"

"Are you okay?" Jaune asked concerned.

"Oh yeah, a little to the left, oh yes that's the spot."

By now everyone in the hallway were wearing heavy blushes as their minds could only take what they were hearing one way. Weiss' mouth was agape as she couldn't believe they were doing it, in their room no less she had to sleep in that room later. Blake was shocked that Yang and Jaune were moving so fast, they had only just started dating and already at this point?

She only just worked up the nerve to date Sun and yet Yang had pushed her relationship so much further. Ruby was already covering her ears and humming to herself, she really didn't want to hear this, she wished she couldn't hear it, she wished she never heard it. She was happy her big sister and best male friend were together but she didn't need to know about their sex life!

Ilia was torn, mainly because she didn't know them that well and this was an invasion of privacy. The other was that she couldn't deny that Yang was a sexy girl and hearing her like that, well it was hard not to suddenly feel like the temperature in the hallway was getting warmer.

"Where did you learn to do this?" Yang asked.

"My dad."

Weiss looked to Blake with wide eyes and she mouthed 'his dad?' as her.

"I said it before and I'll say it again," Yang moaned out again. "You're mother must be the most happily married woman in the world, oh right there Jaune that feels amazing."

"So is this helping you feel better?"

"You have no idea," Yang sighed. "I swear Jaune you're too good at this."

"I swear if Yang made up that her feet were hurting just to…to…this, I'm not going to be happy with her," Weiss whispered.

"I'm just hoping she's using her own bed," Blake muttered, if she was using hers, she and Yang were switching beds after this.

"What the hell is going on here?"

They all jumped as they turned to see Qrow walking up to them, he was going to take a nap in his room when he noticed everyone in the hallway. The young women all shared panicked looks, especially Ruby as she didn't want Yang and Jaune to get into trouble. She opened her mouth to say something when Yang's pleasured moan hit the hallway.

Qrow stood still as he heard it, his eyes narrowed as he had heard plenty of women moan in his time and the fact that was clearly Yang made him pause.

"Oh god Jaune." Came Yang's groaning voice.

"The actual fuck," Qrow grumbled out as he stalked to the doorway.

"Oh no," Ruby looked from her angry uncle to the door trying to decide on what to do, her friends made way none of them knowing how to stop the man.

"I gave that kid a pass and this is what he does?!" Qrow threw the door open as he was about to yell when he stopped. "The hell are you two doing?" He asked confused.

That got the others to look over his shoulders and sides to see Yang on her bed with her feet bare on Jaune's lap as his hands were working on massaging them. She had taken off her leather top as Jaune was out of his armor as both blondes looked up surprised and just as confused to Qrow.

"Uh…I'm just helping out Yang with her sore feet," Jaune answered the man not sure what was going on.

"Oh thank god," Ruby sighed to herself.

Qrow looked and it certainly seemed that way, there was no way they were up to anything, the room didn't have a musky scent to it, their clothing was in too good of shape and the bed was barely touched. He sighed as he turned to leave grumbling about going to need a drink now. The others filed in as Weiss put her new case aside looking at the two of them as Jaune continued to work on Yang's feet.

"This is what were you doing?" Weiss demanded.

"Of course, what else would we be doing?" Jaune asked her confused.

Weiss' face grew red, "Uh-well-it's just that-it doesn't matter!"

Yang and Jaune gave her both the same odd look before Weiss decided it was time to go somewhere else, anywhere else and do something. The others followed suit leaving some of their purchases in the room closing the door and leaving them alone.

"Well that was strange," Jaune said.

"Par for the course for us," Yang shrugged before turning around onto her stomach. "Hey you think you can give me one of those great backrubs? My lower back could use a bit of your magic touch."

Jaune gave a small smile, "Sure thing."

He shifted position as his hands went to work on her bare lower back as he dug his thumbs into the soft flesh making his girlfriend hum in pleasure. Jaune nearly had a small laugh at the thought, his girlfriend, now that was something he was still getting used to.

Jaune worked in silence for a few minute as Yang felt her lower back muscles getting a much needed massage. Yang closed her eyes as she would groan and moan from his work. If this was the kind of thing she could look forward to by dating Jaune she just might keep him forever.

Jaune could feel some of the tense muscles slowly starting to get less tense. Then he remembered that little experimentation using his aura and put some of it into his fingers as they dug into the flesh.

Yang's head snapped up as she gasped as her whole body felt on fire. "Oh god, J-Jaune, a-are you using your aura?"

He stopped what he was doing for a moment, "Uh, yeah, shouldn't I have done that?"

Yang bit her lip trying to think of what to say.

"Yang, is something wrong?" Jaune asked concerned.

Yang sighed relaxing, "Okay I should tell you, when you put your aura into your hands and push them into my body like that well…it does something to me."

"Isn't is supposed to help with healing your muscles?"

"Yeah I'm pretty sure it does but well it does something else too."

"What?" He heard her mutter something but he didn't get it. "Sorry I didn't hear that."

"I said…I get turned on." She muttered the last part but he heard that.

"Wait-what!?" Jaune's hands left her back. "Yang! Why didn't you tell me that?"

He felt his hands suddenly leave her back and she found she missed them. She sighed as she considered her answer. "Well at first I was surprised and then I…well I was really enjoying it."

"So whenever I use my aura it just feels nice?" Jaune asked for clarification.

"I'm not sure, it only worked when you were pressing in your hands," Yang mulled it over as they were still learning about Jaune's semblance and what its full range was.

"Yang, you should have told me. What if I had done something like that to Ruby if she asked for something like a shoulder rub?"

Yang hadn't thought about that, her sister was still pretty innocent in some ways and Yang was a bit worried that Ruby wouldn't know what exactly was going on or how to handle it. She also thought about what if he did it to anyone else? "Well I think it's just skin to skin…I think."

"Great, now I'm worried about using it again," Jaune sighed.

"Okay look we just need to check okay? Just try a little, on my clothing to start."

Jaune was a bit hesitant but he needed to learn if just using it could do that, the last thing he needed was a misunderstanding between him and his friends. He placed his hand on her orange top on her back as he put a little of his aura into her.

"How's that?"

"Nice but nothing major, try pushing your hand a little?"

Jaune did so but it was still the same. The next thing they tried was her exposed skin on her sides, Jaune lightly touched the flesh with his bare hands as he used a bit of aura but nothing out of the ordinary happened. When he tried pushing his fingers into her sides Yang felt a bit of something.

"I feel a bit, huh that's strange." Yang thought about it trying to remember where his hands had been. "Try my spine."

Jaune placed his fingers on her spine and again put in some aura.

Yang sighed, "Feels nice, okay try pushing it in?"

He did so and Yang felt her world explode again. "Oh yeah that's the spot!"

Jaune quickly pulled his hands away. "Okay so it's your spine? Why does that matter?"

Yang wasn't sure, maybe they should ask someone who knew more about aura? She knew the basics but to her it was just something she had and used. She hadn't really given it much thought about how it actually worked, now she was starting to regret not paying as much attention in class as she should have been.

She thought about the sensations, "Well it seems to go through my entire nervous system so maybe when you push in your aura goes in deeper and it's traveling through my spine?"

"I guess," Jaune had no idea if she was right but it seemed like a decent idea of where to start. "So I just don't have to use that with my bare hands on someone's spine? I think I can do that."

Yang groaned, "Awww, but it felt really good."

"Yang!"

"What?" she turned over now to look at him as he shifted to her side to give her some room. "We're dating now so we can do things like this, right?"

Jaune thought about it, the first time they hadn't been, hell he hadn't even known about this but now things were different. Sure they were dating but it was a bit new to him, he also thought about what she meant by 'things', were there other things they could do?

"So me giving you these, I guess call them 'special' massages, are things we can do."

"Yep," Yang remembered that she was his first real girlfriend the poor guy most likely wasn't sure of what he could and couldn't do. Another thought hit her, she was the one getting all the pleasure out of this and it didn't seem fair to him. She also needed to help break him out of his hesitation, she had noticed at times that he was uncertain on simple things like holding her hand to when he wanted to kiss her sometimes.

Maybe he just needed a bit more confidence.

"You know there are some perks to dating," she told him.

"Yeah I'm just learning is all." He shrugged.

She looked at him as an idea on how to give him a little bit more confidence might work. "Tell you what, since I was the only one feeling good how about I return the favor?"

Jaune wasn't sure where she was going with this, "You don't have to Yang, I mean you can't even do what I do." He blushed a bit thinking about if the roles were reversed.

She smiled up at him as she stretched out on the bed, "No but I can let you cop a feel."

"Wait-what?"

"You head me Lover Boy," She looked at him with a smile on her face. "I've only let a few boys get this far with me so it's only fair. I'm letting you get a free pass to touch me anywhere on my body."

"Y-you're serious?" Jaune felt his heart race starting to climb as he looked down at her, lying there on the bed stretched out with her arms above her head just waiting for, well waiting for him to do something.

"So what will it be Jaune?" Yang said in a teasing tone. "My thighs? My butt? Or maybe…"

She looked down as Jaune did the same and Jaune felt his face heat up. Okay he had to admit all those options were very good but was he really ready to do this? A part of him really wanted to, he knew that Yang was a very beautiful woman, hell he would go as far as to say sexy, especially like she was now. A little bit of him however wasn't so sure, was this really what couples did by this point?

Seeing the hesitation Yang knew that Jaune was a bit too much of a good boy for both of their own good. So she took the initiative and took one of his hands and before he could ask what she was doing placed it right onto one of her breasts.

"Ahhhh!" Jaune cried out but with her metal hand around his wrist, he couldn't move it out of her grasp.

"There we go, just so you know Jaune, when your girlfriend is giving you a free pass, take it."

He couldn't really say much as he could feel the flesh under the clothing. Sure she still had on her top and bra but he could still feel the bountiful flesh under it. It felt full and yet had some give to it as he swallowed again.

"Go ahead and give it a squeeze." She instructed.

Jaune felt like a robot as he obeyed her command as he gave an experimental squeeze.

Yang made a small moan. "Yeah that's good just-OW! Not that hard!"

"Sorry-sorry!" Jaune pulled his hand away.

Yang gave him a small glare but sighed, "Can't be helped it was your first time but just do you know those are sensitive. Now this time I'm going to show you how to do it properly."

"Y-you are?"

"Yep, I want a boyfriend that knows me inside and out and that includes how I liked to be touched," Yang grinned at him. "Remember, I said I was a very affectionate person."

Jaune was nearly lost in a trance like state as he placed his hand back on Yang's breast, he couldn't believe this was happening. He was pretty sure there would have been a lot of guys back in Beacon jealous of him in his moment, touching something he bet so many of them wanted to touch. It did make him feel a bit better about himself knowing he would know how good she felt when they would never know.

Yang took his hand as she showed him how she liked to have his hand caress and knead the flesh. She had to admit he had a nice touch as after a few minutes she pulled him down onto her for a searing kiss. Although she felt it was too soon for anything beyond some touching, if this kept up she might have found the guy to go all the way with, when both of them were ready for that of course.

-Downstairs a little bit later-

Blake was reading a book on the couch or at least trying to. Her mind kept going back to what she had heard in their room and where her mind went. Her face grew a bit red as she tried not to think about it but she couldn't help it. Despite everything in her life and how she knew it was hard for her to get closer to people, she was actually a romantic at heart. Hence, her special books, yes they might be a bit more adult in nature, but they still had romance in them.

"Get to the good part yet?" A voice asked her making her jump.

She looked over her shoulder seeing a grinning Sun leaning over her shoulder.

"Sun!? Don't scare me like that," she glared at him.

"Sorry," he nearly laughed at her expression. "You looked really involved in the book, you didn't even notice me walking up behind you, and normally I couldn't get this close without you noticing."

Blake blushed a bit, she really had been out of it as normally she was more aware of her surroundings. Being always on guard in the White Fang and her natural senses were good for that kind of thing but only when she wasn't distracted.

He jumped over the couch and landed next to her placing an arm over her shoulder smiling at her with his usual smile that only seem to be warm and inviting.

"So, good book?" He asked.

"Uh, yeah, very good," Blake honestly had no idea she had barely even started and hadn't made much progress today. She was all too aware of how close Sun was, as she couldn't help but cast a look from his face to his open shirt. Why did he have to wear that? Actually, she had a pretty good idea but still after everything that happened upstairs her mind couldn't help but wonder what it would feel like to run her hand over those abs.

"You okay?" Sun asked leaning in. "You're looking a little red, not running a fever or anything are you?"

"No! Nothing like that," Blake said quickly.

"Oh good because I was hoping that we could do something?"

"Do something?" Blake asked curious.

He scratched the back of his neck, "Yeah you know, go out and do something, just to two of us."

"If you want to go out on a date you just have to ask," she smiled.

"Yeah I know," Sun grinned at her. "I just know that we'll have to split up soon and I kind of want to spend as much time I can with you before then."

Sun really did want to spend as much time as he could with Blake, there was just something about her that he couldn't help but be drawn to. He couldn't really put it into words, although he did admit she was beautiful. From her long dark hair, her golden eyes, everything about her really. Even her cute little cat ears, which he was so glad she finally got rid of that bow.

There was also the fact that it was her personality, she was so cool, calm and collected. She wasn't like most girls and when she spoke, she always seemed to choose her words. He just said whatever was on his mind which he would admit had gotten him into trouble a few times.

Blake was just, well she was everything he wasn't and yet they still had this connection he felt. He never felt like this with another girl before and given that he wouldn't see her for a while, well he wanted every minute with her to be something he would remember.

Blake looked a bit saddened at how they wouldn't be together physically at least, for much longer. She had come to really like Sun being around her, he made her world feel slightly warmer by his presence. In fact she found it ironic that his name 'Sun' was what it felt like to have him around. He was warmth and she wanted to feel that warmth all the time.

Seeing her down he gently took a hand and brought her chin up to meet him as he slowly leaned in. "Hey, don't be like that. I've said it once and I'll say it again, we will meet again Blake. No matter how many times we get pulled apart I'll find my way back to you when you need me."

She knew that he meant those words, Sun was many things but he was always so sincere when he got serious. She looked into his kind eyes and felt herself leaning closer to him tiling her head to get closer.

"Blake are you here I-oh," Kali had walked into the room from a side room with her husband and Ilia as they stopped. Kali's hand went to her mouth in surprise but secretly she was also happy at the sight of Sun and Blake.

Ghira gave the boy a glare as he quickly made a small gap between himself and Blake.

"Oh hey there Mrs. B." Sun waved awkwardly.

"Blake," Ghira nodded at his daughter as he looked at Sun with obvious disapproval. "Boy."

Kali elbowed him in the side as he sighed and rolled his eyes before correcting himself. "Sun."

"Is something going on?" Blake wondered hoping to change the subject.

She knew what she had nearly done, she had nearly kissed Sun right there and a part of her was screaming at the timing of it all. Although the last thing she needed was for her parents to find her kissing Sun as they had walked in. She would put it aside for now but she could still feel her heart racing slightly.

Later, she told herself there is still time for that kind of stuff later.

"Well we were all talking and with Ghira making a new group and the support we've been getting. We've decided to stay in this city for a time," Kali told her.

We need the time to properly set up a new headquarters and get things moving." Ghira stated. "We're also going to have to hit every kingdom at some point to gain more support."

"So it means we won't be going back home anytime soon," Kali sighed. "Not that it matters, the repairs to all the damage to our home is going to take months."

Both Ilia and Blake immediately felt bad about that, it was their fight that had caused all the fire damage to the home, thankfully it had been stopped but at least one room was beyond saving and two adjacent rooms were in bad shape by the time they had left.

Her parents he put some of their people in charge but she knew it wouldn't be easy.

"Sounds awesome," Sun nodded his head. "I mean the whole touring the world and starting up the Unity group not the whole, fire and stuff, cause I was there and all that."

"We just wanted you to know since you're leaving for Atlas soon," Ghira told her. "With the CCT network down we can only communicate through letters so if you send any we won't get them until we arrive back home."

Blake felt bad about that, she wanted to keep in touch with her family this time. She didn't mind writing letters but it also meant that while they wouldn't get them for some time, being on the move like she was going to be, they wouldn't be able to contact her.

She should have gotten in touch with her family back at Beacon, if only to let them know she was okay and doing well.

Kali saw her daughter's face and went over and placed a loving hand on her daughter's head. "Don't worry I'm sure we'll all meet again soon. I'm just thankful we finally got to see you again and for the time we've been spending."

"I also wanted to tell you that I've decided on what to do," Ilia hesitantly spoke up looking at Blake. "I've done a lot of thinking, I thought I was doing the right thing with the White Fang but I was just so filled with anger and pain that I couldn't see where it was going until I thought it was too late to turn back."

"You helped to show me that I didn't have to go down that dark path anymore," she took a breath. "I wanted to pass that on I wanted to use my experiences to help other Faunus who are still following that way of the White Fang. To help them see that there is more than just violence, that there is another way. I feel like I need to do this, to help make up for some of the mistakes I've made."

Blake could only look at her old friend with a sense of pride seeing how far she had come. It reminded Blake so much of how she had been when she first left the White Fang. She had been lost then too and looking for a way to maybe redeem herself and her actions.

Getting up she went to her friend and hugged her.

"I'm proud of you Ilia," Blake whispered.

Ilia smiled as she hugged her back, "Thanks."

Ghira and Kali could only look on with matching smiles at the sight of the two friends.

"Yeah, this is nice." Sun nodded to himself spoiling the moment.

Blake rolled her eyes as she and Ilia pulled apart while her father gave him an irritated look.

TBC…