Proelium Dignus

[Takara Takeda]

Thread Title: Proelium Dignus
Participants: Takara Takeda vs Shōkan Kawada
World: Human World
Death Setting: Non Death Enabled
Rating: R
Location: A park in Karakura Town


Special Conditions: N/A
Circumstances: Takara is out at the park when a Shinigami finds her and a battle for life and death ensues between them

[Takara Takeda]

Takara moved throughout the streets of Karakura like she had over the last three weeks. It had already been nearly a month since she had awakened from the prison known as time. In that time there had been a fair amount of things that had happened to her. Right now she was in one of the areas where one of those things had happened. She had been on this same street around dusk when a rogue Shinigami had found her and attempted to capture her. Thankfully she had gotten away from him by manipulating another Shinigami to fight for her.

That Shinigami who had been a rather pain in the backside due to the fact that when he found her he chased after her stating that he wanted to run experiments on her. Takara of course wasn't going to let that happen however at the time she hadn't been able to call on her ability to defend herself. So the only thing hat she had been able to do at the time to survive was run from him. She hadn't been able to lose him though and yet still something very odd had happened that just seemed to be a slap in Soul Society's face and Shinigami all together.

A random young boy Shinigami that just so happened to be blind had been in a near by park that Takara had ran to in order to avoid the Shinigami that was chasing after her. That Shinigami boy happened to be enough to hold off the other Shinigami on the whim on a frightened dog. Well that was what Takara had pretended to be since the boy hadn't been able to see her strange appearance all he had been able to figure out was that there was some sort of dog being chased by a Shinigami who was openly stating he wanted to run experiments on it.

From that point on a battle between the two had ensued and Takara had stayed back observing the fighting styles of them both in case she had to run into them in the future and happened to fight them herself. The young Shinigami boy had a different reiatsu about him that Takara only felt was dark and somewhat evil yet he couldn't control and the strength of it never flexed even during the usage of his techniques. That boy though fought with flexibility and his zanpakuto along with what Takara assumed to be the martial arts focusing on his legs more so then his arms.

The Shinigami that had chased after her though had incredible talent in the art of kido and was able to cast spells that Takara realized she would be powerless to stop at that point. After seeing a few of the spells that the Shinigami could cast Takara ran from the scene making sure that even if the boy Shinigami who was fighting well failed she wouldn't be captured by the other one. So thankfully she got away from there and managed to gather a bit of information that she believed could help her in the future.

After that Takara had been out in the town again during the night just like she was tonight only that night she had found something very interesting along with information that she was both saddened and thankfully to acquire. Takara had ran into a half Mod Soul boy by the name of Jak. The boy had spoken with her and Takara had learned that the boy was half Akki. That gave Takara the idea that perhaps the demonic race could reproduce with any other race in existence since her race was highly unique and there was nothing else like them however it seemed that they had been able to create an offspring.

After speaking with the boy for some time Takara learned that her people weren't completely extinct yet the numbers weren't all that high and actually finding another Mod Soul was very rare. All of that meant that Takara had to gather up her people fast and awaken her ability to call on the Omega Arsenal. So after all of that Takara also was able to find out that the poor boy not only grew up without his father, but that the Shinigami had been able to kill his mother who happened to be the parental Mod Soul.

They had killed his mother and due to that Jak had a hate for them that more then likely rivaled Takara's own hate towards the race that created them only to cast them aside and kill them. The final thing that Takara found out that night from Jak was the ability that he was able to utilize that he stated he inherited from his mother. Takara saw that Jak was able to channel his reiatsu into orange-red orbs of reiatsu that could explode yet somewhat splash over the impact area and burn everything. It was without an ability that could serve her plans well enough in the future that meeting up with Jak again was a definite.

After that Takara had been going around Karakura during the day pretending to be some new type of doll that could move by a controller. Thankfully none of the human even questioned the idea when they saw a strange looking wolf doll walking on the street. One of them even pointed her out and stated openly that the strange scythe like appendage on the side of her head was an antenna for the controller that was actually controlling her movements. It wasn't long until Takara happened to sense the reiatsu of another Shinigami and attempted to make her way from the area in order to evade conflict due to her inability to still call on the Arsenal.

It hadn't worked and the Shinigami had been able to follow her. Thankfully when Takara confronted the Shinigami it turned out to be a very new Shinigami girl that had yet to gather experience. A battle ensued between the two of them to which Takara had to actually fight up close and physically which she wasn't good at. Although thanks to her intelligence she had been able to land a blow on the girl that caused her a decent amount of pain to the point that the girl had vomited. After that though Takara herself had been hit and she too felt pain.

The battle hadn't lasted long and eventually it ended when a Senkaimon gate appeared behind the Shinigami and it was easy to tell that there was a Shinigami on the other side of the gate flexing their reiatsu as a sign to have the Shinigami girl fall back to Soul Society. She had obeyed the order and left Takara going back to Soul Society. As she was leaving though the girl had made sure to tell Takara that neither of them had won the encounter yet next time she was going to beat her. Takara had made her first move against Soul Society by stating to the girl to tell the Captain Commander that she was still alive.

Right now though she had awakened her ability to call on the Omega Arsenal and felt that it was time to chance encountering that Shinigami again. She had seen that he was a very talented and skilled practitioner of kido yet spell casting would never be enough to stop her power. She walked into the park that had been the battle ground for those two Shinigami before and looked around seeing no one in the park. The Shinigami mage was no where to be seen and Takara was about to leave when she sensed the reiatsu of another Shinigami near by.

[Shōkan Kawada Ⅺ]

Shōkan Kawada was patroling the World of the Living. The irony of this situation was not lost on him. Barely months after being resurrected, and he doing the very thing that got him killed in the first place. He chuckled internally at the thought, 'Hehe, I guess some things never change, no matter what time you're in.' Arriving at the towns park, Shōkan began looking arund. He knew from experience that sometimes the lesser spiritual creatures liked to hide themselves in places like these. The abient reitsu from the large amount of people and nature there tend to mask their weak spiritual pressure. Scanning the surrounding area, Shōkan prepared to leave as he hadn't noticed anything. Suddenly however, something caught his eye.

There, sitting under a tree, was a stuffed animal. It was fairly small, and appeared to be the stuffed version of a white wolf of some sort. At first Shōkan simply assumed that was it, until it moved. Quickly firguring something was up, Shōkan masked his spiritual pressure, and took a closer look. The movement the wolf had made was small, and it could have been a trick of the light, taking refuge in the branches of a tree, Shōkan eyed the animal for close to half an hour before it happened again. The wolf brought it's paw up to it's face as if to brush of dirt, then put it back down. The movement was small, and quick, but it was definitely there. In the time it had taken for the wolf to move, Shōkan had finally realized what it was.

It had taken him a little while to realize it, simply because in his time, Mod Souls hadn't existed. After thinking hard on it though, he remembered some of the reading material Arashi had given him on recent events in the Soul Society, al of the important things that had happened in the last thousand years or so (recent in Soul Society standards at least). In the multiple books he had been given, several beings were mentioned, including quincy's, mod souls, and failures. These races hadn't existed in Shōkan's time, and it was taking some time to get used to them, the fact that they were actually real and not just some words on a page. Though, to be perfectly honest, Shōkan was a bit underwhelmed... It was just a stuffed animal after all.

Now understanding what his enemy was, Shōkan made his move. Leaping from the branches of the tree, Shōkan jumped to the location of the wolf before it could react and crouched down staring at it. The wolf didn't move, as if hoping Shōkan would figure it was simply a regular old stuffed animal. After a few moments, Shōkan spoke "I know what you are" he finally said, "you may be able to fool these people, but you aren't fooling me... Mod soul." Still seeing that the wolf hadn't moved, Shōkan sighed. "Well, either way, I'll be taking you back with me to the soul society. Rules are rules after all." Keeping his guard up, Shōkan reached down for the stuffed animal.

[Takara Takeda]

Now sitting under the tree Takara continued to act as if she was doing nothing at all in order to bring out the Shinigami that was lingering around. All of a sudden though the reiatsu that Takara was sensing that belonged to the Shinigami went faint and then was gone. "Well this one might actually have a brain." Takara had met a few of the Shinigami all ready and yet none of them had even thought of suppressing their reiatsu signature. This one was going to move on her while she couldn't sense him. That meant that Takara was going to have to rely on one of her other methods to locate the Shinigami.

Continuing the façade that she was unaware Takara sniffed the air however right now her sense of smell was hardly better then the average person and she couldn't pick up any kind of specific scent due to that problem that she knew would need to be fixed immediately. She looked around as well yet couldn't pick out an individual in the park. It was during the day and while the majority of the civilians were at school even the house mothers had already taken their babies through the park and left. That meant that Takara and this Shinigami were the only things in the park right now and she would need to truly be careful of this one and utilize the arsenal to the best of her current abilities.

That was when Takara suddenly heard something a little bit away and turned her head and saw the movement of black as it came towards her. As the Shinigami landed in front of her he wouldn't find Takara just sitting there pretending to still be a doll. That wouldn't work and never would have Takara was intelligent and proud of that fact. She hadn't been suppressing her reiatsu which allowed this Shinigami to find her something that she had no problem with due to the plan of killing every single one of them. Just as he was landing though Takara had activated her ability to call on the Omega Arsenal and a long jian with a black blade had materialized to her left. The blade though suddenly moved in front of her and the blade angled upwards towards the Shinigami's throat.

Takara in an instant was able to gather a few key characteristics on this Shinigami thanks to her incredible mathematical knowledge. "Male. White hair. Appears to be combed backwards. . might have a fear of filth and dirt. Approximately six foot and three inches tall. Along with muscle definition that is visible through clothing and size of body . . between two hundred and two hundred and twenty pounds of weight. Zanpakuto missing from visual scan. Probability of high talented in kido or hakuda. Possibility of ranked officer unknown further data required." Takara was now done going through all of the data that she had gathered on this Shinigami for now and ready to simply deal with him.

The Shinigami knew that she was a Mod Soul just as the young girl had known yet this man appeared to be far more powerful and well versed. When he spoke of bringing her back to Soul Society though that was when Takara's expression shifted to quiet rage. Glancing upwards at the Shinigami the jian between them kept steady a few inches from making the tip touch his throat. "I won't be going anywhere for the moment Shinigami. I'll return to Soul Society when I'm ready to burn it to the ground. Be wise and move along. It'd be a shame for such a pretty face to end up dead so soon. Leave and live another year or so till your extinction is at hand." Takara was ready for this Shinigami to utilize shunpo just as that girl had done so rapidly. As soon as he moved he would find himself the target of war.

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Strength: 50 (38)
Speed: 100 (75)
Spiritual Pressure: 120
Reiatsu Strength: 50
Light Aura: 50
Dark Aura: 50
Instincts: 100 (150)
Senses: 50 (75)
Energy Sensory: 50 (75)
Healing Expertise: 0

Acting: 1
Focused Eye: 1
Battle Focus: 1
War Strategy: 1
Anti-Stealth: 1
Battle Analysis: 1
Charisma/Leadership: 1
Mathematical Implication: 1

[Shōkan Kawada Ⅺ]

Shōkan was slightly perplexed, at the large jian a few inches from his neck. It had appeared out of nothing, which must be the ability of her soul. Judging by the way it was floating, he could also acertain that she had somelevel of control over the weapon. Other than that, he couldn't get much more than questions. Could she summon more than one? How fast and powerful were they when she moved them? Was it only jian? Or could she summon different weapons as well? All of these thughts went through Shōkan's mind in the blink of an eye. Completely calm, he hadn't moved an inch since the spear had appeared, and stared the mod soul in the face. hearing it's little speech, Shōkan was somewhat amused for a moment, such vernacular comign from a stuffed animal was just humourous.

Looking down at the mod soul, Shōkan's sheer confidence shone through as he stared at her implacably. Body completely relaxed, it was obvious that he was completely unalarmed by the large weapon just inches from his throat. Slowly, a small smile graced his features, and he spoke "I can honestly say you don't disapoint..." His body language changed suddenly, from confident and relaxed, to aggressive and ready to attack, his face changign from the innocent smile, to an intimidating grin. "After all, I've been looking for someone to test my abilities against, and I would be awfully disappointed if you didn't put up any resistance." For one moment further, Shōkan was perfectly still, then, suddenly, he burst into action.

Not retreating or giving an inch, Shōkan immediately went on the offensive. With the speed and ferocity of a lunging tiger, he batted the jian away by it's wooden shaft, whilst simealtaneously lunging towards Takara, hadn extended in a chop that would knock the wolf away, disorienting her, if not tearing her head off. If she dodged, or avoided the blow in some other way, Shōkan would shunpo behind her and lash out with a kick, guarding against any offensive manuevers, not giving her an instant of rest or focus. If the first attack did land, he would shunpo to the position she landed at, and kick her in the instance as well.

(-50 Shunpo - possible)
(450/500 Remaining reitsu - possible)

[Takara Takeda]

Takara stood on the four legs of the stuffed wolf that she was inhabiting at the moment while maintaining the constant control over the jian that had just been summoned from the arsenal. She was meeting the confident gaze of this Shinigami with a gaze of her own that spoke of her own confidence and reassurance that no matter what this tall white haired Shinigami tried she was going to prevail victories in this endeavor between them. "Displays reassurance along with confidence. No reaction from sudden threat more then likely has skill when handling danger. Possible experience in battle."

That was when all of a sudden the Shinigami began to speak calming stating that Takara was a disappointing encounter. Takara showed no outwardly signs of addressing his statement nor personal reaction. The best thing that she could do right now was to stay focused and make sure that she gathered up every single bit of information that she could on this Shinigami. When the Shinigami's expression shifted from the calm confidence to aggressive violence Takara been to visually scan his body once more making sure that nothing was going to appear near him or that she hadn't missed something. She knew that more then likely this Shinigami was a practitioner of either kido or hakuda so taking a look at his fingers and making sure they were not moving for an incantation was something Takara scanned.

It turned out that his fingers weren't moving in any manner which meant that if he was a practitioner of kido he would more then likely be incanting the verse required to utilize said kido in his mind. If not however then it was obvious that he was a hakuda practitioner and Takara would more then likely have easily work with him. As his mouth moved and his displayed a grin across his face Takara starred at him as if she was looking down on him like a Queen contemplating what an ant would do to her castle. The Shinigami then stated that he wished to find someone to test his abilities against and then rushed forwards.

Takara stayed perfectly still concentrating on his every movement and as his hand went outwards and hit the hilt of the jian Takara felt his strength push against her focus. Based off of the force that push from it and how Takara started to move it back she assessed his strength with a margin of error. "Physical prowess between a large wild animal and current manipulative force. Chances of Hakuda practitioner now at eighty seven percent." the jian that he had pushed to the side was moving back towards him yet as it did the blade changed angles so that the blunt side of it moved towards his back.

As all of that happened and the Shinigami rushed towards Takara she called on her arsenal further materializing in front of her two large clubs made of steel. As the Shinigami moved his hand horizontally towards her Takara had already gathered up based on the angle that he was planning on chopping her stuffed forms head off. One of the clubs moved with as much speed as Takara could manage and clashed with the arm of the Shinigami particularly his forearm more then likely leading to muscle damage along with slight bone irritation. Simultaneously as that happened however the other club that was materialized moved in front of Takara swinging forwards just missing her own face due to the closeness of the two foes. The club was aimed to strike the Shinigami in his stomach while the blunt edge of the jian would clash with his back.

These two weapons would clash with the body of the Shinigami simultaneously and more then likely lead to a fair amount of internal bleeding. The club was planning to damage his stomach and other internal organs that were all located in one of the weakest areas of a mortal body. While the jian was aimed to strike at his back specifically in order to damage his bones located there. Especially his spine which would make swift movement far more difficult taking away one of the few advantages that this Shinigami possessed over her at the moment. "An ant can't reach the top of the hill with a broken back."

{OCC: The weapons are moving at 200 speed while having 200 force with each hit.}

Remaining Reiatsu: 1125/1200
2 Clubs: {-50}

[Shōkan Kawada Ⅺ]

As Shōkan lunged towards the mod soul several things happened at once, which, while sudden, were not altogether surprising. The moment he batted the shaft of the jian aside, it spun around, heading for his back, and as he reached for the animals head, two clubs materialized, one moving to stop his strike, and the other attemptin to ram into his stomach. From the moment his attack had started, Shōkan had been ready to shunpo, for one reason or another, this changed his plans only slightly. Before he retreated however, Shōkan tested the strength of the weapon poised to block his strike.

Slamming into the weapon, Shōkan was somewhat surprised at the strength it possesed. slightly stronger than even his own power. While it bruised his hand slightly, the small wound was inconsequential to someone who had trained even lightly in Hakuda, especially because the power of the weapon stopping him was only very slightly stroner than Shōkan himself. Finding the information he wanted, Shōkan quickly shunpo'd away, landing 15 yards away across from Takara. The blubs had changed his plans slightly, so instead of shunpo'ing behind her to strike, he retreated to consolidate his thoughts. He still only barely dodged the club and jian in his bid for escape. At least, he thought he had until he noticed the fabric on his arm was ripped, though it appeared it hadn't touched the skin. 'Quicker than I thought, but not beyond estimation...' he thought to himself.

Before he did anything else, Shōkan took a brief moment to compartmentalize the information he had aqquired. First; the mod soul could summon at least 3 weapons, and obviously weapons of multiple types. Second; these weapons seemed to have a strength and speed just slightly above his own considerable abilities, a worrisome prospect. Third and final; the mod soul was somewhat arrogant, which was amusing coming from a childrens toy, although not so amusing coming from a childrens toy with the power to sut him to ribbons with various weapons. Thankfully, Shōkan's speed and experience had allowed him to disengage himself from the situation, although he couldn't count on that happening every time.

All of this took no longer than a few seconds, but Shōkan was sure the mod soul would have come to her own conclusion's in that time, she seemed too intelligent not to.

-50 reitsu - Shunpo
450 reitsu remaining

[Takara Takeda]

As the club moved forwards and the jian moved backwards suddenly the Shinigami with the pure white hair vanished. Takara had extraordinary instincts and knowledge yet she couldn't truly see his movements when he utilized shunpo which meant that this Shinigami held more speed then the young girl she had fought on the roof top the week prior. She was in battle right now and the most common place to attack a foe from while not in visual sight was from the back. Takara thought of this within a fraction of a second and as she did so a shuriken materialized behind her right above her tail.

The clubs and the jian moved close to Takara actually being placed at a side each in a manner that was similar to protection. Takara kept a club to her sides and the jian in front of her so that there would be a weapon in place for any angle of attack that the Shinigami could strike from. Right now though the Shinigami was thinking over all of the information that he had gotten about Takara's ability as he did that the shuriken that she had just materialized was launched from its position right above her head the angle of travel shifting to the actual location that Takara had just picked up which was now far to ranged for her to manipulate her weaponry so the only method to attack him was to launch them.

The shuriken would soar through the air right towards the chest of the Shinigami. It's speed was far swifter then that of what the Shinigami had seen so far. Although their battle had only just commenced he had witnessed that Takara could materialize various large weapons and control them with a fair deal of strength and speed. This shuriken however was small and the blades curved so that even if it hit his chest it would roll off his body cutting upwards across the right side of his chest until it flew up into the air. The speed and force behind it though were double what he had witnessed the other weapons move at so the possibility of him evading this one was very slim.

Remaining Reiatsu: 1115/1200
1 Shuriken: {-10}

[Shōkan Kawada Ⅺ]

Shōkan barely had time to come to his conclusions when he noticed the shuriken flying at him. While he saw it coming, he simply didn't have the time to move once he noticed it. The best he could do is shift his body to an angle, so that the blade simply cut his side and continued on with momentum, instead of severely gashing him. 'Note to self, ranged weapons are also available, also, they are considerably faster than thus far seen' Without giving his opponent a chance to follow up, Shōkan dashed away, running to the side to finally end up across from Takara, around 15 yards away.

Looking at the mod soul, Shōkan gave a nod of appreciation. "You're a bit stronger than I expected... For a stuffed childrens toy" At that, Shōkan gave an arrogant grin at her. Let me elaborate, Shōkan wasn't doing this just to be a dick, this was a plan of his. From what he could see of his enemy, she was very prideful, from this, and taking into account her powers, Shōkan had devised his current plan. Enrage her, make her angry, and make her seek for his blood with that single minded intensity she had showed thus far.

Usually Shōkan didn't think this would work on her, but, as prideful as she was, she couldn't help but be confident towards a close range combatant such as himself. That combined with the anger his taunts would cause her to begin taking risks she normally wouldn't. After all, living around nobles his whole life, Shōkan was quite good at pulling off the arrogant part, and let's face it, it was easy when fighting against a mod soul... They're plushies.

"For someone who talks about ants, you sure are small... You also have about the same threat to me as an ant!!" Chuckling at that, Shōkan prepared for the furious offensive he was expecting from her, having forewarning, and being prepared, he should be able to dodge anything she threw at him, and if his natural speed wasn't enough, there was always shunpo. Throwing out one last insult, Shōkan continued, "I've been out of commision for a long time, I would have thought this worlds inhabitants would have grown at least some in power... All i get is a toy animal. How disappointing..."

[Takara Takeda]

Takara watched as the shuriken that she had materialized from the arsenal flew through the air towards the Shinigami that was proving to be much more of a inconvenience then that young girl she had met a few days ago. So far Takara was able to with one hundred percent certainty that the Shinigami was a close up practitioner and more then likely wouldn't be able to ever land a hit on Takara. That was when she noticed that the Shinigami had been able to pick up the movement of the curved shuriken moving through the air and began to move his body. Takara took the time to asses his maneuver and speed more thoroughly.

She noticed that while the shuriken had been avoided in the manner that she had aimed for it still was fast enough that the Shinigami was cut across his side. That was all that Takara needed to know. If she could continue to injury this Shinigami then it was only a short amount of time until he wouldn't be able to continue the pace that he was going at against her. The shuriken suddenly seemed to vanish and Takara knew that due to her launching it at the Shinigami it returned to the arsenal. Such a small inconvenience yet nothing that would cause her to lose against this ant.

That was when the Shinigami began to move to the side while still keeping the distance away from her. Takara took care of his speed making sure that she knew precisely how fast he was going. While he began to move through the space towards where he planned on stopping Takara summoned two senbon a small thin needle used by ninja of old Asian sections of the world. These would be much harder to actually see coming through the air then even the shuriken had been so Takara was going to see just how perceptive the Shinigami truly is. The two senbon were at the moment hidden from view behind Takara's head as she turned to face the Shinigami now that he had stopped moving.

It was then that the Shinigami began to speak and yet again Takara could tell that all this Shinigami believed was that he was incredibly powerful. Obviously this man hadn't had his own fair share of combat if he believed himself to be so powerful when Takara compared to what she had been originally was nothing more then an insect. This Shinigami had no clue what true power was and more then likely if he continued to behave and speak in such ways he would never learn. He kept bringing up the fact that Takara for the time being was inside the body of a stuffed animal as if it was an insult towards her race.

Takara scoffed at such a believe. The fact that a Mod Soul could inhabit almost any form while retaining consciousness and full capability of power was one of the greatest aspects of her race. The grin on this Shinigami was truly ugly and Takara was growing tired of his face. The more and more she had to look at him and hear his voice the more irritating he was becoming to her. "It's obvious that he's attempting to dull my strategy through verbal aggression. Amateur." Takara's gaze shifted to one of much deeper hate that mixed with a gaze of something condemning a sentence to a lower creature.

It was just after the Shinigami had finished his statement of returning from a time of inactivity and that he was disappointed in having to fight a Mod Soul. This Shinigami foolishly still believed that he had some sort of chance in defeating her. Well Takara had a statement of her own towards the Shinigami. "You know there are very few things more ugly then those that run their mouths about things that they don't understand or comprehend. An ugly mouth, face, voice, body, mind. All of these things can be forgiven and looked past in order to find a shred of true beauty yet you. You're one of the few that are truly disgusting nothing more then a glorified spirit that believes he fits into the shoes of something important. There is nothing more ugly then seeing someone wear shoes THAT DON'T FIT THEM!"

AS Takara spoke was concentrated and materialized an additional three senbon from the arsenal all behind her head with no sound coming an no visual sight presented to the Shinigami he wouldn't be able to tell that Takara had summoned anything while she had spoke. Takara knew that she had the advantage at a distance yet it was obvious that this Shinigami would simply utilize shunpo as soon as she fired off a weapon in the hopes of getting them away from her. The best strategy was to use this amateurs own strategy against him. That's why as soon as Takara finished her statement one of the golden broadswords stiffed in angle and launched through the air towards the Shinigami aimed to pierce through his chest.

Remaining Reiatsu: 1065/1200
5 Senbon: {-50}

[Shōkan Kawada Ⅺ]

As Takara launched a tirade about shoes, Shōkan found that his plan only half worked. She proved to be just as arrogant as before, but her rage hadn't clouded her mind, which Shōkanwas somewhat dissapointed about. He wasn't surprised however. It was to be expected that it wouldn't work, the first strategy was always a feint, and the one he had just used was the oldest one in the book. Seeing Takara send out her weapons, Shōkan lazily dodged to the side of the broadsword, and caught the glint of the senbon in the midmorning sun. Easily dodging those as well. As he was doing this, Shōkan tried to think of his next move.

For one, at a distance, Takara held the offensive advantage, save for the fact that, while he couldn't do anything offensively at range, her ability was extremely easy to dodge with sufficinet range in between them. Her abilities weren't all that fast, and with his adequate senses, and the range were he could see them coming, he would be surprised if he were hit again. The only reason the shuriken hit was because he was surprised at the unexpected speed, now that he had a better perspective at the speed she could use, Shōkan wouldn't be caught off guard again.

Sighing, Shōkan decided to give this facade he was using a go for just a little while longer. It had it's uses... For now. Quickly formulating a new plan, Shōkan decided to see what Takara would do if forced to move, before she could fire any more weaponry, Shōkan turned around, and shunpo'd 100 yards away, in one of the dozens of trees in the park. While Shōkan had no real ability in stealth, he could mask his reitsu, and with suficient cover, wouldn't be able to find him iuntil she was fairly close, within a dozen yards or so. Unless she had some skill in detecting stealthed individuals, or high senses, which was just something Shōkan had to gamble on.

-50 reitsu ~ Shunpo

[Takara Takeda]

Takara watched carefully still analyzing how this loud mouth of a Shinigami actually fought when at a disadvantage. So far all the Shinigami had done was move from one place to another. While his speed was impressive he wasn't able to move fast enough that Takara couldn't see where he was going and accurately assess the speed that he could move at when needed. She had already gathered that bit of information though along with what seemed to be the maximum amount of strength that this Shinigami possessed. So unless there was some hidden ace in the hole to this Shinigami which Takara was starting to believe was unlikely then there was little to no chance of him being victorious against her.

The man seemed like his total battle strategy was always meant to be close up and personal I a combat of hand to hand combat. "The fighting style of a brute and an animal nothing more and nothing less." The annoyance of dealing wit this Shinigami was starting to be more then Takara felt was worth just eliminating him. So as the golden long sword soared through the air towards the Shinigami and he evaded to the side Takara came to the conclusion that assessing time was over and the time to simply kill was upon him.

That decision of course came to her just prior to the vanishing of the Shinigami. Immediately Takara knew that the Shinigami had utilized shunpo yet she had sensed the spike in his reiatsu just as she had come to the decision to eliminate him. She had been anticipating him to rush at her and attempt to bash her body once more yet he was no where to be seen. That was when she realized that she could no longer sense his reiatsu either. "He has no zanpakuto leaving only one possibility. He's a coward." Takara came to the conclusion that the Shinigami had utilized his step technique to put distance between them and due to her inability to see or sense him he was a decent distance away more then likely running for his life.

This new development took a single moment to digest and when that was over Takara sighed slightly in disappointment. It seemed that the Soul Society wouldn't get the fresh of many flesh bags to come today like she had believed. Instead there would be now a report on the fact that she had regained her ability. That more then likely would find its way to the Captain Commander and Takara would have to deal with strongest Shinigami very soon. She turned away and began to walk out of the park making her way onto the stone walking path. As she moved the clubs vanished, but not being naïve like so many others Takara kept the senbon that she had summoned close to her fur pressing them against her to the point that the white fur covered the thin steel of her weapons just in case the Shinigami was planning a sneak attack.

[Shōkan Kawada Ⅺ]

Shōkan watched as Takara slowly relaxed, and began to walk away. It looked as if she thought he had made a 'tactical withdrawal'. Shōkan was intelligent enough to know that Takara would still be on guard however. Some people would say it was luck, that took Takara in Shōkan's direction. Shōkan new better. He had placed himself near the entrance of the least noticable exit towards the park, and one could figure that a walking, talking stuffed animal wouldn't really want to be noticed. As Takara approached, Shōkan ran his plan in his mind over and over again, preparing for his next movement. Just before Takara moved into the range where she would be able to detect him, Shōkan struck.

For the first time in the battle, Shōkan released his full strength, his tattoo glowed a brilliant white, a flames of the purest white danced around him. Shōkan didn't stand around to gawk at his new form, in less that a moment after he powered up, he was gone, having shunpo'd directly into Takara's personal space. It was over the minute he ended the shunpo there. With his immense speed, the flash step took him directly in front of her, less than a foot away, the dancing flames would consume her body, disintegrating her to ash. Unless something miraculous occured, this fight was over.

Even if she somehow summoned a weapon quickly, from what he had seen of it, she wasn't fast enough with them to strike him in time, to her eyes, his flash step would have made him vanish, and in the blink of an eye appear before her. And the time it would take to direct a weapon in his direction, would be too late, the instant he landed in front of her and his flames touched her, he had won. Takara would notcie, that the clownish personality he had on before had vanished, her pride had cost her dearly when she underestimated him. Looking down on her, Shōkan spoke thus "You were strong... Definitely the strongest mod soul I have ever met. This fight could easily have gone either way, and I thank you for this opportunity to test myself against a worthy opponent."

Of course, Shōkan wouldn't say anything if something unexpected happened.

[Takara Takeda]

Takara continued to walk atop the surface of the walk way through the park on her way towards the exit. It had seemed that the Shinigami had taken to deception or simple retreat. Either way it wasn't going to leave that much of an impact on Takara's impression of the man. From what she had experienced he was an incredible arrogant individual that believed in his own natural abilities far beyond that of a foe. Takara knew that her own believe in the fact that her ability followed suit yet her ability was one that had been tested and been labeled as such a threat which in turn brought about her opinion of it.

Each step on the hard stone of the walkway was one that Takara gave more and more of her attention too. She focused outwardly on everything she could believing that such a disengagement from this battle was not possible. The Shinigami wasn't the type to admit defeat nor one to run away from one. This believe was brought about due to his personality that had been displayed during their short lived conflict. Yet that conflict might not be done just yet and Takara truly felt there was going to be some kind of final attack by the Shinigami. The only problem was that Takara couldn't at the moment sense his reiatsu nor locate him with her senses.

That was when Takara was about to reach the exit of the park and she felt a burst of reiatsu. Instantly she knew that the Shinigami was utilizing shunpo. It had been the only technique that he had displayed during their encounter and based on what attributes she knew about him it would be one of the only ones possible that would cause his reiatsu to spike. She had to go on an offensive defense something that she had to be intelligent about at any time. Instantly as the reiatsu spiked four long broadswords materialized above Takara with her in the epicenter like the middle of a compass.

The swords then spun around Takara as fast as she could make them. Takara knew that his attack was going to be a close range one based on what she had seen so far so this defense was the best suited one she could come up with in the last minute or so that she had been walking towards the exit. This resulted in the Shinigami appearing and the white flames touching Takara burning up her doll body like he had planned. The only thing was that one of the broadswords that she had summoned from the Omega Arsenal managed to cut through the head neck of the Shinigami. Takara knew the measurements of the Shinigami's body including his height which allowed her to manage this decapitation leading to a draw with both appearing to be dead.

Remaining Reiatsu: 965/1200
4 Swords: {-100}

[Amagai Kuchiki]

41 paragraphs + Draw = 460 TP Takara
20 paragraphs + Draw = 250 TP Shokan