Team RWBY was up early, and looked very unhappy as they staggered, like zombies, towards the training center.
Ruby: "Come on guys! We've barely done any group training all month!"
Blake: "I've been busy with White Fang!"
Yang: "Yeah, and I've had my own things going on."
Weiss: "We need to keep our grades up in this, Yang, Blake! Honestly, can't you take this seriously?"
Yang: "Says the girl who threatened to murder Ruby for waking her up with an airhorn."
Ruby: "Um, sorry?"
Weiss: dark look.
The four pass by a small courtyard garden... And pause. They see Jaune in the center of the courtyard, blindfolded, with earphones on. He was doing a handstand, and fidgeting only a little. He's also shirtless.
Weiss: "... What is that fool doing that for at this hour?"
Yang: "Giving a free show? Gotta say, it's a little avant garde but I like his hustle." ogles his muscles
Ruby: "Ew! Yang, gross!" bright red nevertheless
Blake: "I think it's some form of meditation or sensory training."
Blake approaches, enters the circle... Jaune mutters under his breath.
Weiss: "What's he babbling about?"
Blake: "... Books... Fish... Moonlight... Shadow...?"
Ren: "He's learning how to sense Auras."
Yang, Weiss, and Ruby jump. Blake merely raises an eyebrow as Ren steps out from behind a marble column.
Yang: "Geez! We need to put a bell on you, Zen Boy!"
Blake: scowls
Yang: "What?"
Weiss: "Aura Sensing? Isn't that a bit advanced for a dolt like him?"
Ren: "It is not easy for people to learn. But I've put him through a crash course and he's been doing fairly well. Helps with blind fighting, keeping track of your comrades in darkness, and in telling who is behind a door. After all, if Aura is the energy of the soul, parts of your soul will always radiate outwards if you don't learn how to control it."
Blake: "I see. That's how you always know I'm around."
Ren: "Among other reasons."
Ruby: "Wow... You're like a super ninja, Ren!"
Weiss: "Please! For all we know, he's just playing a prank on us and Arc!"
Ren: pulls out his scroll, turns it on "I've linked to the headset Jaune is wearing. Ruby, can you confirm it was not linked before?"
Ruby checks it over and nods.
Ruby: "Yeah, it just turned on."
Ren: "Jaune. You were muttering about what you were sensing before."
Jaune: "Oh! Sorry Ren!"
Ren: "No, no... I want you to say aloud what you are sensing." Hits mute "Blake, please approach Jaune again."
Blake walks back into the courtyard. Jaune grimaces.
Jaune: "Um... Aura in front of me... It feels like... Books... Moonlight... Shadow... Cats for some reason?"
Blake, Ruby, Yang and Weiss all gape in disbelief. Ren smiles softly.
Ren: "Good. Hang on." Mutes it again "Yang? If you would approach him? Any angle you wish."
Yang: "All right..." She walks around the small courtyard and then walks in behind Jaune, then moves to the right at random.
Ren: "Jaune?"
Jaune: "Warmth... Fun... Fire... Fury... Motorcycles for some reason... And... Motherliness?"
Yang gapes and flushes. Weiss scoffs.
Weiss: "This is ridiculous..." She leaps up and stands on a pillar above Jaune, and leaps to a bench on the other side. "There. Too fast for him to pick up-"
Jaune: "Cold... White... Speed, grace... Hidden warmth...? Maybe? It was quick so I couldn't get a lot."
Weiss flushes. Ruby grins and super speeds in front of Jaune, then away.
Jaune: "I felt joy... Mischief... Silver too... And I smell rose petals... Not hard to guess who that was."
Ruby: "WOW!"
Jaune pulls off his blindfold and gets to his feet. He smiles in a friendly way at RWBY.
Jaune: "Hey! How'd I do, Ren?"
Ren: "Better, though your range is still limited. And you can only sense when you are calm and not moving."
Jaune: face falls "Oh..."
Ren: "But it is impressive you're getting the basics down so quickly."
Yang: "And looking good while doing it, Studly." Grins "Mind if I train with you? I'll even go shirtless too if you want~."
Jaune: bright red "Y-Yang!"
Weiss: "YANG! Must you be so-so you?!"
Yang: "I must! It's a heavy burden but someone's gotta heft all this awesome hotness around!"
Weiss: "You would say that, you top heavy bimbo!"
Blake: "I would also be interested in training, Ren. My mother tried to teach me Aura sensing but I never got past the basics."
Ren: nods "I would be glad to."
Ruby: "ME TOO! Oh, it sounds so cool!"
Yang: "And all the shirtless Jaune we could want!"
Ruby: "YAAAANGGGG!"
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The teams sharing some training techniques and concepts could be fun. Also, Ren learning how to become a teacher might be a very interesting character direction for him. Especially since I headcanon him learning his arts from a monastery that took them in. Nora meanwhile learned how to fight from the Norse-like berserker/blacksmith in the village near the monastery.