Dependent

There's a line

Hope you enjoy, but first let me tell you a story
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Ren pondered silently to himself, as he sat legs crossed on top of a rock the wind blowing. Like in all good but possibly racist martial arts movies. He was like the teacher and me the student but in this case, he was just a friend helping me out while looking fifty times more awesome.

"So you can use the semblances of other people, right?" Ren said as I tried to get more comfortable. Sitting cross-legged isn't as easy when you try it after coming out of a coma. "Well, Oz was very ominous and didn't just go, 'yeah you can do this' but apparently I can." Ren put his hand to his chin, then lets out a sigh. "well let's not focus on what you could do and just look at what you did." Ren explains, I nod thinking back at the stuff that has happened over the last few weeks. "The first time you uses your semblence was in the emerald forest, right," Ren asks after a few seconds, "yeah? Wait, when?" I ask "well when you launched that King Taijitu (the snake grim)" Ren says like he just stumbled onto something, but in a very, Ren way. "That was before the hole sharing of aura" huh, why didn't I think of that when talking to Oz "Yeah but that was different to the-..." I just realised the time in the emerald forest, was very similar to the last guy I launched in the alleyway.

"Different to what?" Ren asks. I snap out of my daydream, surprised at my observation "Well in the emerald forest when launched that grim, it was like a sudden burst of all the energy I had so to speak. But in the alleyway, I just kind of did stuff as a reaction, like I didn't even know I was doing it. Appart from the last person." I explain the best I can. "So the last person you took down was like back in the emerald forest, the attack took all your energy." Ren says kinda stopping my role "oh, how did you figure it out?" I say in mild confusion. "I guessed" oh well don't underestimate Ren. "well it seems like we should see you can do that move again," Ren says getting up and then offers me a hand up "Ren you know that when I use that I essentially just knock myself out, right?" I say takeing the helping hand, "Yes and?" I look at Ren knowing if I made an argument I would still end up doing this "just, don't let me hit the ground."

The next few minutes I spend my time punching air, trying to do whatever I did before in the emerald forest and the alleyway "Ren, I really don't think this is working" as a mother punch connects with nothing. "Well then your not doing it right" I know that Ren "well how did you feel when you were in the alleyway?" Ren asks still sitting to the side, really I only think he agrees to this so he can have a break from Nora or his team... or both? "Well, eh angry" I know where Ren's going with this but I wasn't angry in the emerald forest. "Other than anger was there anything else," Ren says, guess he thinks the same thing. Well, guess it was like a last effort thinking on it and I've been doing a lot of thinking. "Well it was a last effort, like it needed to hit or I'd lose or something like that" "needed," Ren says "em, yes?" Ren stands up and walks over o me. "I want you to try hit me" before I can question what the hell he's on about, he strikes me in the gut.

"What the hell-" I start to sit before Ren hit me again, why did I ask for his help. Ren's not wasting any time tho as he comes in for another hit. I throw my arms up like Yang instructed me, just in time for a few of Ren punches to be stopped "Ren what the hell are you do-" another hit gets through my defences "I told you to try hit me!" Another barrage of punches bash against my arms. I don't try to argue anymore because at least this is better than meditation.

Rens movements are unpredictable at best, but he keeps on thing the same he comes in, throws a few hits and gets out again. I wait for Ren to make his next approach before striking. I throw a quick jab in Rens direction but he darts to the side and throws his own jab. "not good enough!" he says retreating a bit. I try the same jab again and again Ren darts to the side, this time I dodge the next jab, throwing a right huck. being Ren, however, he ducks it and lands an uppercut. the blow instantly makes me more than a little dizzy as I try to say on my feet. "stop trying to hit me and hit me!" Ren shouts as he comes in again. As I'm barely sating on me feet Rens attacks land more often and now they really start to stack making it harder and harder to throw my own punches. In the end, I just stop guarding all together and just try to focus on lading one hit like Ren keeps telling me to do (, dam movie quotes).

I throw punch after punch and take more, each one I throw Ren ducks or doges or weaves in some way, I get so sick of missing I just suddenly back up a few paces and call out "you better hope this works Ren!" I say as I sprint back toward him and launch a punch as hard as I can, and it connects the feeling of the blast of energy leaves me as I feel myself falling to the ground once again. I don't know if Ren just took that hit so I could succeed or if he genuinely couldn't dodge it but either way, he still let me hit the ground. I see Ren stumbling to his feet as everything goes black one again.

The next thing I know I surrounded by voices, there familiar. Its like when you wake up in the morning to an alarm, you know its an alarm but you don't realise it's from you clock you bought and not your phone for a few seconds. There definitely girls, and I'm not just in that uncomfortable chair in Oz's office. It's comfortable. "Am I in bed?" I think as I realise I'm lying down "oh I think he's coming to!" I know that voice it has to be Ruby "wake'y, wake'y Y/N" that Yang "I knocked myself out again, uh where's Ren?" I say just enjoying the little rest in, or on a bed not even bothering to open my eyes. "oh he just needed to deal with something," Yang says "Nora ran out of pancakes?" I ask "Yes she did and you took Ren out for your training so we had to deal with it" hay, Wiess is here too. "so how come I not in 'the office of Oz'," I ask "well Oz said that you falling unconscious like this shouldn't be life-threatening anymore" Ruby says "the key word in that sentence being shouldn't" and there's Blake can we get any more? "well who brought me to my room, or was it a team effort?" I ask almost ready to fall back into unconsciousness on the soft bed "we didn't" Blake points out, I knew my bed couldn't be this comfortable "well then whos pillows are these? because mine are so much worse" I ask, I know having a room to myself would have some drawbacks "they aren't pillows" Ruby points out.

I open my eyes and realise where I am. I on Yang's bed and my head is resting on her lap. I jump up, hitting my head against the bed above me "god damn it Yang!" I shout while rubbing my head "I know but, you're just so cute when your sleeping" she says "there's a line!" I say "you were kinda cute" Ruby mutters to herself "and you three, " I say turning to the rest of the team "you just let her" mildly disappointed in all of them "well it was a compromise to keep her happy" Wiess says "compromise?!" I say "Just trust us when I say we won, she had some oddly detailed plans" that's disturbing "WEISS! now he knows!" Yang says to Wiess sitting across from her on her bed "EWW! don't remind me!" Ruby says looking down from her bed "I think you need help Yang" Blake says sitting casually on her bed thumbing through her book. "well I didn't hear you say no to my ideas Blake" the conversation devolves it to an argument, of which I do not want to be a part of and so I slip out unnoticed.

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Eh not my best chapter but I wanted to just make that seen because it's just funny to me anyway I got more chapters to right.