Guardian

Chapter Eleven

"Come on Blake harder!"

"I don't want to hurt you."

"You won't, trust me. Now harder!"

Blake closed her eyes and thrust her fist at Yang for the hundredth time that morning. As usual Yang blocked it but when Blake opened her eyes she found that she had finally managed to make Yang stumble.

"See that wasn't horrible," Yang smiled from over her guarded stance. "You can't keep closing your eyes when you hit someone though. It leaves you open."

Blake huffed and crossed her arms. "Well I don't want to hit you so closing them seems to be the only way to get the power behind my hits that I need."

She bent down and chugged a bit of water, pouring some on her hand and wiping the back of her neck with it when she was done. Ever since their tumble in the alley Yang had been waking her up at six every morning to train with her. Since their fighting styles were so different Yang would usually have her do different exercises than she did. She would do agility why Yang worked on her strength, or acrobatics while she did stamina, but they always ended the morning by sparring each other.

"You've improved a lot over the past week," Yang praised. "Now we just need to find someone else to train with us. A little two on two fight."

"We have plenty of guards," Blake suggested.

Yang shook her head. "No I don't want to risk putting your dad's guards out of commission. We need people who can take a beating and have more formal training. No offense to your dad's guards, but Saber is the best he has and he even admitted he wouldn't last against just me let alone the two of us," she tapped her finger against her lips as she thought, it was a quirk Blake had noticed she did often, and she found it incredibly cute. "If my sister was in town then her and Weiss would help I'm sure but I talked to her yesterday and she said they were just getting ready to leave Vacuo for Mistral. So that's out."

Blake took out her scroll and searched through her contacts finally settling on the only person she could convince to spar with them. "I think I have someone actually. They went to an academy but they aren't working as Huntsmen right now. Lemme give him a call."

She dialed a number and, as expected, it was answered shortly after ringing. "Yo Blake! What's going on I haven't heard from you in like a week! The boys and I were about to send out a search party."

"Sorry Sun I've been a bit," she glanced at Yang who was watching her with interest, "side tracked. Could you do me a favor?"

"You should know better than to have to ask."

"Mind grabbing one of the boys and coming over? I'm looking for a couple sparring partners."

"Getting back in the game huh!" He sounded excited. "But, uh, will your dad be alright with it? I know he doesn't like me much."

"He's in his office getting ready for a meeting. Plus we will be outside and I'm sure he won't mind you coming over when he find out it's so I can kick your ass."

"Oh you're so on!" She knew he couldn't say no to challenge like that. "Neptune and I will be there in just a few minutes."

"You and Neptune are gonna what?" She could hear his friend shouting from the background. "What did you just sign me up for?"

"Just get your stuff we're going to Blake's!" Sun called back. "See ya in a bit!"

"Later Sun," Blake chuckled and hung up. "Looks like I've found us a few guinea pigs."

"Those poor guys," Yang smirked. "Well might as well grab your weapon and head outside. I'll wait for you there."

As she passed, Blake felt Yang purposely brush her hand against hers and Blake found herself staring as Yang jogged back up the stairs and she followed a few minutes later with a sigh. Hiding their relationship was killing Blake inside. She wanted to be able to touch her in public, to kiss her in the morning while they had breakfast, and more than anything she wanted Yang to stay with her at night. As she wondered into her room she found herself staring at her bed, which was still unmade from her restless sleep the night before. Every night for the past week Yang stayed with Blake until she fell asleep but as soon as she left she spent the rest of the night tossing and turning. She wished that, just once, Yang would stay the whole night with her even if she held her and spent all night talking about their memories.