It's a Bou-nt time (Tima and Kai, JT, R )

[Arantima Kawada]

(CTP Training)

Arantima knelt beneath the now destroyed Doragonzutsurri and meditated silently. His thoughts were strewn about several different topics, but more importantly all of the different types of spiritually aware beings he had met recently. The Little Cat Gracie, who he was fairly certain was a Mod soul. The Young woman Keira Bright, A spiritually aware human with a massive amount of spiritual power. Now he had met a Bount, a type of being that he knows next to nothing about, but apparently were created by the soul society sometime ago.

Gracie and this new Bount had something in common, an almost charming lack of knowledge of the spiritual world, though Alexykai had at least some basic measure of knowledge and control over her own power, but it was still lacking. Gracie on the other hand had absolutely no idea what she even was, which made Arantima question himself on what she was. He looked up to the Doragonzutsurri once more and sighs, thinking on his conversation with Souji and his training with Shokan. He had pushed himself to the breaking point and came out of it with a very tenuous victory over his own weakness but in the end..

In the end his strength comes at a cost, a Ravenous hunger for violence and destruction. The barest levels of control are only possible if he is not wounded or harmed, the more damage he sustains, the more rage encases his soul and the harder to stop he becomes. He strokes his fingertips down the flat of his zanpakuto as he stares up at the tree he had tried to break for Seven hundred years, feeling a sense of dreaded accomplishment and sadness all at once. He stands slowly and sheathes his blade before bowing to the tree and heading off towards the Senkaimon gate.

When he had returned from the encounter with Alexykai Last week he had set up another mission after giving his report. He was to monitor and evaluate this new Spiritually Aware disturbance and see if it was a threat. Though he already knew she was not a true threat, he still wished to keep up his bargain with her.. Afterall a missed appointment is a lie and he could never bear if he were to lie to a person, especially a young lady. He Stepped through the Senkaimon gate with a soft step as he usually does, respecting the Dangai and the dangers that normally reside there.

As he stpped outside of the Dangai he blew a kiss to the Hell butterfly as he always did and onto the rocky crags of the shoreline of the Aran islands where he had stepped onto just a week prior to meet with Alexykai the bount, even thought origianlly he had been tasked with simply finding another disturbance in the world of the living. He had gotten used to this Sort of work, as he wasn't trully needed to guard the perimeter of the soul society with him being so physically weak when he had first become a shinigami.

He was now stronger than many seated officers, there were perhaps even Vice captains that would fall in a one on one fight with Arantima, but it was not something he was going to announce to the entire seireitei before he could prove it by Facing his captain once again. This trainign was not just to help out Alexykai and her own understanding of the spiritual world, but his own sense of how things worked. it was to be a test to see if he could take a position of leadership and guidance when it was needed, and This girl seemed as good as any to start with.

He looked up to the sky and smiled as he saw the twinlking starlight, and not a cloud in the sky for once. He Looked around the horizon as the senkaimon gate disappeared leaving him standing there alone and shirtless on the shoreline of the island. He was looking for the Light of this Bount Reiatsu orb as he had asked her to hold out so he could find her more easily. He Thinks about Releasing for a split second, He could move around the island much faster and see much more clearly. The thought was torn out of his mind in a flattened instant becuase once he released, his baser instincts would take him over.

He knew he would not stop until he found her, and the longer it took the more rage he would be filled with, and the more rage he had the more likely it would be that he would attack her. Then his thoughts turned sickening to himself and he knew hhe would not be trying to kill the young girl if he attacked her in that state, he would be trying to have her, willing or not. He Spit that nasty taste out of his mouth and rolled his shoulders before putitng his hands in his pockets and started to walk around the coast, looking for Alexykai's light.

[Alexykai]

(Training for CTP)

Kai had had a quiet week - but then, it was always quiet on the tiny Aran Islands. That was why she'd moved there. It was a relief to be able to live someplace where she wasn't led to expect being hurt by anyone and everyone she met. Sure, some of the older traditionalists gave her grouchy looks and said sassy things, but those were nothing, comparatively. Those didn't leave scars and permanent soreness. Well, they did, but that was soreness she could get over with a decent bottle of vodka before bedtime. Note to self: Gotta pick up a new bottle in the morning.

She'd been pondering the stranger all week. The name is just gone. I don't think it even stuck for a second. Jesus. She wasn't sure what he wanted. She couldn't read him, and that made her nervous. Every day that passed, she'd made a new decision. One day, she was excited, and the next she just wanted to hide and hope he wouldn't find her if he came back. He could do so much to her and she would hardly be able to stop it, and the one bad thing of being in such a safe place was that nobody there would be able to protect her if things did go south. As she walked down to the shore, her mind slipped into the darkness of memory.

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Kai stood in a clearing in Central Park, one of the places people went to do secret things. She shifted her weight, listening intently to her surroundings. Beau would be there soon, to show her something. He hadn't said what he was going to show her, but he'd said she needed to see it. It would help her protect herself, he said, and she did need to protect herself. Her thumb rubbed at the back of her other hand, but she jumped as a sword clattered on the ground at her feet. She looked up from it with wide eyes and spotted Beau.

"Pick it up." His voice was rough, with a Southern twang to it. The sort of cowboy voice you'd expect in a New Mexico Western. He even had the long coat and a hat, the squint, the facial hair. He could have been Clint Eastwood, if you squinted and suspended your disbelief for a second. Kai crouched carefully and picked up the sword, frowning. Beau nodded, his fingers flexing, light catching along the rough metal adorning his knuckles. Kai glanced at his hands, spotting the weapons he was wearing on his fingers.

She lifted the sword - Why did he have to give her such a huge sword? This thing was as big as she was. She rested the flat of it against her shoulder, frowning. "I can't even lift this. I can't swing it. How am I supposed to use it?" Beau smirked and lifted one of his guns, having drawn it from its holster while she spoke. The noise of the shot rang in her ears, combined with the noise of a bullet ricocheting off of the sword she held in front of herself. She screamed in instinctive response, scrambling backward and dropping the sword.

"Come on, Kai. You can do better. Pick it back up." He rested his gun against his shoulder, head tipped as he watched her. She stood still for a few moments, and then very slowly bent to pick the sword back up. It took some effort to lift the tip out of the dirt. "You're a smart woman. You can figure out how to put your strength into it. Come on, now. Make me stop." He twirled the gun and aimed it at her again, and she went stiff. It wasn't a comfortable feeling, having a loaded gun pointed at her. She took a breath and nodded.

Kai threw herself aside as his finger twitched, and the bullet whizzed just past her ear, the heat lingering in her skin and the sound lingering, again, in her ears. The sword dragged her down and she fell to the ground, but she scrambled to her feet again, grunting as she lifted the sword again. She rushed him, and thought maybe she would actually land a hit, but at the last moment his hand swung down, the knuckle duster catching her right cheek and tearing flesh away. She immediately crumbled to the ground, sword clattering to the side, and she held her cheek in both hands, staring up at him.

He sighed and holstered his gun again, crouching in front of her. There was care in his eyes, but only there. "You have to learn, Kai. Make yourself strong enough. Someday someone will try to kill you again. You have to be able to kill them first, even when all odds are against you. Come on." He offered a hand to her, and she stared at it. Finally, she slipped her hand into his and stood with him, head ducking as she turned and started the walk out toward home.

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Kai stumbled, consciousness drawn immediately back to the present as the rocks shifted under her feet and she crumbled, just like in her memory. She winced at the pain which lanced through her ankle, and then she sighed and pushed herself carefully back to her feet. At least she hadn't walked off a cliff. She wiped her scraped and bleeding palms on her jeans, and she glanced around. She was only a few yards away from the shore. That should be far enough from the village.

Kai stopped and took a deep breath. Cold ocean air filled her lungs and nose, and she smiled softly. This was one of the best places she'd ever lived. She raised her hands and focused on them, shaking the stinging pain out of her mind as she focused her reiatsu in her palms. Slowly, a glowing orb grew there, and she lifted her hands up as if offering it to the sky and whoever might be watching. Maybe this would catch the Shinigami's eye. She kept the orb a decent size, about the size of her head, as she held it up. She didn't want to draw the attention of night fishermen or climbers. And with that, she waited.

[Arantima Kawada]

Arantima Looked around with a gentle expression on his face, the island air was salty and soft, if potentially a bit cold. He Looked around before spotting the Young Girl and her orb of light, if it weren't for the light showing off her odd colored hair he wouldn't have even noticed her. The fact of the matter was that he had overlooked her several times as he was walking because he couldn't see that hair color until she brought her Reiatsu orb higher up into the sky. He Smiled and took a hand out of his pocket to smooth his hair back before tapping the toe of his right foot on the ground and disappearing from his position.

He Was a Master of Shunpo, but not yet also Skilled in all of the aspects of hoho so while he could move incredibly far there were those that could do so much more than him. He Appeared on the shore in front of Kai with a gentle smile and a gust of wind coming from the east as he appears. However his presence is diminished from how it was before, as if a gentle mist is coating his reaitsu, his energy. He rests his hand on his zanpkauto and smiles down to Alexykai "Well You are here afterall. I thought I might be searching all night to find you didn't come. " He kneels down, about 5 or 6 feet away from her.

"I am however glad that you did come to meet me." He Settles himself down and takes out his Zanpakuto, laying it down on the rocks before himself and bowing his head low to touch the flat of the blade. "The reason I wanted to meet you here is because I want to learn more about you, While also learning what you are capable of." He Raises back up and lets out a gentle sigh with a almost endearing smirk of a smile. "I Remember Vividly that you do not wish to learn how to hurt people. So I had a Thought that perhaps we can teach you how to defend others without harming someone else."

He holds up a hand to halt any disbelieving remarks she may have "I know that that sounds odd, but there are ways to do that. Provided your definition of harm is loosened just slightly. I Can create a Shield, Seki. It paralyses anything that impacts it physically. Some would see that as Harm. Hado Number 1 Sho produces a thrust of force that can knock back a foe, If aimed poorly or my hand is in contact with them it can cause damage.. but That Comes down to how it is used, not it's original intent." He looks over Kai and her Reiatsu orb, noting it's size.

He smiles to her a moment before looking from side to side, Producing his own smaller orb, about the size of an apple and resting it in his lap, his orb is a much different color than her own however, being a brilliantly sparkling gold orb even if the light is produces is barely register-able. He Looks down to his orb and over at kai's "Now, My Orb is Smaller than yours, but only because my True powers are locked away within my blade. However this is conducive to our training because i can stay on your level. I can strain you just barely enough to make you struggle without breaking you. I Trained for a long time without struggling and had to almost break myself to move on from that rut I had dug, I won't subject you to that."

He Stands finally, grabbing his orb in his right hand and as he stands he flattens his hand out and puts the orb upside down, in a position where it should be falling out of his grasp. The Enhanced Energy sensory that kai has allows her to feel as well as see what he is actually doing. He looks down to her and smiles as his orb spins wildly at speeds that would be creating a whirlwind if the orb was physical, he is also drawing up reaitsu from the orb, pouring it back into the orb steadily, creating a energy vaccum that glues the orb to his hand, but the amount of control that seems to take is gnarly.

"I Want you to try this with your Massive orb there.. It's doable, But every time you drop it, you will have to create the orb again.. For someone like you I imagine you could do that Twenty five times or so before starting to feel faint and hungry.. i know as well this seems silly, or even stupid but everything starts that way." He Smiles to her and begins to change hands, holding the orb upside down and moving it between his hands like he could do this in his sleep. the motion doesn't feel arrogant or even show-offy at all, simply a Demonstration of what he wants to see.

[Alexykai]

Kai flinched as Tima appeared in front of her. Sudden movements were definitely not very comforting, when she was already nervous. And he was hiding himself, which made it even harder to read him. Her weight shifted from one foot to the other as her gaze swept over him, and then she looked away and her hands lowered, reiatsu orb still shining in her palms. She was wearing jeans, warm boots, and a mid-weight sweater for the biting ocean air. And, of course, her tiny hat.

She listened to him speak, opening her mouth a few times as if to reply before he moved on, but letting him continue for now. When he held his hand up to stop her from speaking, she wrinkled her nose. Of course it's possible to defend without hurting, that's what shields are for. Her nose wrinkled further. I'm borderline pacifist, not a child. As he brought her attention to his orb, however, she relaxed again, though she continued frowning subtly. She stiffened again in subtle fear as he spoke of training her and challenging her. The mention of breaking her had her eyes widening, but she forced herself to relax again as she listened to him. Her eyes followed his orb as it rolled along, switching between his palms. That was something she had never seen before, though it made sense and the method wasn't too confusing.

"I just don't want to, like, actively hurt people. If they hurt themselves from swinging at me, that's their own dumb fault." Slowly, she started to draw her own orb's energy in, while trying to feed an equal amount back into it. Once she felt she had that, she started to turn her hand over, twitching when the orb threatened to roll off. She wrinkled her nose in concentration, staring at the energy in her palm. You do what I'm telling you to, orb, or I'll throw you in the ocean and then you'll be fish energy. Again, slowly, her hand started to tip.

The orb didn't even try to stick in her palm, rolling almost gleefully off of her scarred hand and breaking on the ground at her feet. She blinked in surprise, and then she made a face and grumbled. "Stupid orb..." She cupped her hands in front of herself again, gathering energy from herself to pool it in her palms. "We just gonna stand out here while I do this twenty-four more times?" The idea actually seemed nice. This was nice training. This wasn't someone shooting at her, or swinging a sword at her, or threatening to do either of those things. She was just standing there, fucking around with her own energy. And it was kind of refreshing. But then the second orb rolled out of her palm just like the first. "Gah!" She cringed and glanced up at him, to see what he might do about her failing so horribly. With him being so hard to read, she couldn't tell if he was going to be the sort of mentor who punished her for not doing well enough. She didn't start a new orb just yet, just waiting to see.

[Arantima Kawada]

Arantima Pulls out a pair of boxes from a bag resting behind himself and shakes his head at her question "No, we are going to stay out here and do this until you can pass it between your hands as smoothly as I do.. And when you can do that, if we haven't torn through these two boxes we will move on to something else. " He Smiles warmly as he pats the two boxed lunches, very much like those they serve at Banzai Thai and sushi. He Looks her over a moment as she just sits there, looking up at him and he clicks his tongue in thought.

He crushes his own and sprinkles the golden sparks onto the ground before reaching over midway between them, forming his orb upside down from the start and just holds it there "Sometimes it's easier to start smaller. Shrink your orb down to my size.. When I practiced this at first my orb was the size of a Walnut when i could flip it upside down, Then i progressively Added more and more size to it." He doesn't sound as instructive as he is thoughtful, trying to understand the logistics of how she is manipulating her energy and how best to help her learn to master it.

He Holds his arm out there straight just long enough for her to Form her orb if she Complies with his direction. If she doesn't seem like she is going to use his orb as a Size gauge he withdraws his hand sooner. "My Apologies for the assumptions made earlier.. I'm.. New to this tutoring thing." he lets out an amused Scoff and smirks before rolling his shoulders, the cold air making his already taught flesh even tighter and his chest harder. He Looks around and then back to kai, inspecting what she is doing if she is continuing to perform the actions he gave to her.

"There are also Ways of defending yourself physically that can be taught that do not include punches or kicks, but instead parry's blocks and redirection. Would that be something you'd be interested in?" He asks genuinely curious, wanting to give he as many options for training as possible without overwhelming her with too much at once hopefully. The Best thing he can do right now is ensure that she can command her own energy with skill and precision. Once he made certain she could do that, the training could progress in any number of ways.

[Alexykai]

"Ff- You said to use the massive orb, jerk." She glanced at the boxes of food and wrinkled her nose. This was going to be a long night, or so she thought. She began to form another orb in her hands, and she stared at it for a moment. His subtle suggestion to try an easier version had her more determined to prove that she was strong, and so she focused intently on her energy and how it moved. Not in and out, Kai. Through. One motion, not two. And as she tipped her hand again, the ball held firm to her palm. She wouldn't be able to move it just yet, but it was sticking at least. "Ey, lookit!"

She moved her hand around, the orb wobbling but still sticking. She glanced up at him - At least he's nice to look at. - and then down at the orb again. "Don't worry about bein' new. I think new teachers are better because they still have whatever made 'em wanna teach. They haven't been through a ton of stupid students who strip away their faith in humanity." They haven't resorted to desperate measures for teaching. Her thoughts shifted to the much more ruthless training she'd been through before, and her attention wavered, the orb falling from her palm to break on the stone at her feet. She sighed.

"Yeah. I can get behind defensive fighting. I just really wanna be able to stop people from hurting me or other people, y'know? I mean -...If it's just me, I'd rather just be able to get away. That's what I do. I run away. Well, I try anyway. I'm not very good at it." She sighed again, memories whirling through her head, mostly of the times she couldn't run away. Slowly she lowered herself to sit, hugging her knees to her chest as she thought. Her gaze was distant, though she didn't look pained or upset. "...What did you have to do, to get out of your rut? To make yourself stronger?"

[Arantima Kawada]

Arantima Smirks at her when she calls him a Jerk, just moments before actually performing the trick and he nods. He was goading her of course, the best way to get someone to perform something strange and new to them is make them want to prove you wrong. He learned that a long time ago, about Three hundred years ago give or take a couple decades. All it takes for someone to do something is for someone to calmly and gently tell them that they can't, its the pillar of progress for anyone with fire in their souls.

He Watches her move her orb around, even with it's little wobbles and smiled broadly at her, clapping gently in praise. He nodded to her explanation of new teachers with a smile, just watching her for the time being until she comes to rest in a seated position. He Tilts his head questioningly until she speaks and he clicks his tongue, understanding that she wants to hear a bit about himself."I will tell you.. Because.. I think it would be good for you to hear." He Looks her over once more and smiles, chuckling at her adorable hat and shaking his head clear before letting out a gentle breath.

"It began when i met a Shinigami named Shokan.. A Man The virtual polar opposite of myself. His power is Unleashed at all times, but to balance this he has no ability to commune with his own soul.. And Thus has no True Zanpakuto." He Takes a Moment and reaches between them, grabbing his up and setting it in his lap "To learn the name of our Zanpakuto we must train and meditate. it is a Journey of self discovery as well as learning about someone that knows you perfectly where you barely know them." He smirks and scoffs gently as he looks down to his own blade.

"For a good while I believed that perhaps I was just too weak to hear my Zanpkauto's name.. So i focused my efforts on my body, on my technique so I could try and fight without my Release.. I wasn't wrong, but i was wrong to beleive that continuing as I had been would give me any sort of progress." He looks up to her and then the sky and begins to re-tell the entire Tournament math that he had entered.. And Been put up against Shokan Kawada the Burning God. "He was a true Sportsman, He Allowed me the time to show him what I could do. it was pitiful but still a decent display considering how weak I truly was then."

He Tells her about the feeling of the blows he sustained, the blows he knew could have broken him in half. He Describes to her the feeling of being burned alive by the Aura of power that this Kawada could produce but instead of pain he describes it as a Soul cleansing. "the pain was indescribably terrible.. But it felt like I was passing through everything that was holding me back.. Like i was finally getting somewhere, getting a man like that to show me everything he had in that one single attack.. I Was in the hospital for a week straight after that, And that is just where this story begins."

Arantima chuckles and steals a thin slice of what appears to be fatty tuna from the top lunch box before continuing. "He came to visit me at the end of my Recovery period.. He Was impressed with me and my determination.. So we Trained together, but it wasn't a gentle and slow event by any stretch." He Looks over to the water and points out to the crashing water against the rocks "It was violent and brutal, hot and hard attacking, at least on my part.. It was like a young child striking a trained warrior fruitlessly. In the end i took it too far, I begged and goaded Shokan to show me what strength was, and in the end he did."

He Stands slowly and Turns side to side, Stretching and accentuating his muscles and almost as if he is showing off his body like a well oiled body builder might. He Stops and chuckles "You would never be able to tell, but My Ribs were impacted into my lungs.. My Spine was compressed and I had three ruptured discs.. I Took my body to it's absolute limit, and then my Soul had to go there." He Holds his blade now as he does when meditating. His Thumbs are wrapped around the blades edge with the fats of his palms against the flats of the blade.

"My Zanpakuto took insult with the way I had been training, more with the lack of inner reflection.. The Lack of Awareness I had shown as to where my power had been going." He looks over to kai and smirks cheekily. "After I had recovered from Shokans Destruction, I had a violent Meeting with my own Zanpakuto.. In my Meditation I was met with two Versions of myself, and I was forced to kill them.. Violently or I would have died in their stead." He brings the blade out farther infront of himself, changing his grip to a simple back-handed on on the handle.

"I will never subject another to that sort of abuse.. It has made my True self a Violent raging beast.. Or perhaps i was always destined to be that way.. But in the end i will not risk that end for any other. I Beleive that they key to training is enough challenge to make you sweat and groan in effort. But not so that your bones break or skin is flayed." He looks over to Kai and Smiles warmly before flicking his left hand out infront of himself and Summoning all of his Gravitational pressure into the palm of his hand creating a massive gust of rushing wind as he does so now.

The Blade that forms is easily seen, a four foot long blade with a one foot long handle made of pure energy. He Slides it through the air as if it is weightless before sinking it into the ground where he had been sitting a moment before, twisting the blade and letting his gravitational pressure escape once again. the rushing wind isn't oppressive but it is more than a gentle breeze across her face "A Technique that you probably have no wish of learning, but just a Show of what is possible with Struggle and proper training."

[Alexykai]

Kai smiled, genuinely pleased by the praise of his clapping - something else she wasn't used to. She pulled her mind free of its memories, unfolding her legs and taking her own lunch box into her lap. "I can't do dolls. Val, my -...ah. Late husband, I guess. He had a doll. He never really used it, but it was basically -...I guess 'released' all the time. It was more a pet than anything." She looked up at him, intending for that to be an 'I can relate' sort of statement. Though as she watched him, she remembered he didn't know about Bounts. "Those are basically our Zanpakuto, I guess. Only not really at all. I dunno, I don't know enough to make good comparisons."

Her hands picked idly at each other, not trying to tear at the flesh but just feeling the texture of the scars. She thought for a long, quiet moment about his story, and how it sounded about as bad as her own. Maybe not quite so bad though. He wanted to be broken. She hadn't wanted to be abused and neglected. Still. He'd felt some of the pain she'd felt. He knew what it was like to want to be stronger and to only be hurt in the pursuit of that. And he was a decent teacher, despite being new at it. He was kind and patient. But then. So had Dane and Beau been, at first.

Kai sighed and opened her box to take a rice ball out and eat it. After thoughtfully chewing and swallowing, she looked back up at him. "So I did the orb thing. Am I supposed to keep doing it until it's not hard anymore? I suppose that's how normal training goes, right?" She winced. Don't say 'normal', he'll start asking about the training you had before, stupid. "I mean, you know. The sort of training people do when they're really trying to do this sort of stuff. Not just, like, amateur training." Super smooth cover-up, Kai. Just shut up. She shoved another rice ball into her mouth.

[Arantima Kawada]

Arantima Smiled warmly at the young Girl, She never even made a facial twitch that would indicate her true internal struggles, but Arantima could see it, if only barely. He could only see it because he had similar feelings early in his time as a plus soul training to become a shinigami. He had been nervous about telling others what he did everyday, nervous to tell anyone he was training and what for because he was afraid they would all think he was too weak, too unskilled or not important enough. He Nodded to her and sat back down in front of her.

He clicks his tongue and taps his kneecap idly with his finger and nods "We Will do one more thing with the orb, Because I know that you will Work on these alterations while i am not with you, so for the moment it is more important to give you variations on the training." He takes a breath and closes his eyes, rolling his shoulders back to relax himself and holds his hands about five inches off of his lap palm down. She can see and feel his energy pulsing in waves but the energy that he expells is withdrawn immediately back into his hands, just like the technique to keep the orb in his palm upside down.

The orbs form in his palms, but starting from the upside down position but they don't contact his palms. instead they are being suspended just a few inches away from his hands. He opens his eyes and looks across to her "this Variation Shouldn't be difficult to start with, But don't expect the orbs to stay still when you form them. They will fluctuate between dropping too low and falling away and sometimes gravitating towards your palms. The trick is keeping enough of a pull to keep them steady and stable without sucking them to your palm or being so light that you drop them. "

He Kept this Technique up for as long as it took her to get at least a single orb to hang in the air for even a moment without it dropping or clinging to her palm. It shouldn't be too difficult for her to perform but it likewise should teach her about the subtleties of controlling her reiatsu with a simple enough technique that she will be able to practice this even without Tima being present. That is Arantima's Most prominent Goal right now, Give this young girl a way of training that can be hidden and done in the comfort of her own home.

[Alexykai]

Kai nodded. Was it so obvious that she was excited to learn something new? Of course she would do this at home, every minute of every day until she had it perfect, and then every minute for a week more. She watched his new trick, and her nose wrinkled at it. That looked difficult. Immediately she was trying to figure out how she would be able to suspend her energy away from herself. Maybe like a Yo-yo. It only took her two tries of forming a ball on an invisible string, before one of them hovered. She smiled as she watched it, but frowned when it fell into her lap. "Oh."

She looked up at him. "Well, I can do it, at least...So I have homework then. Which is good. Do you have to go? Is there other stuff you can show me? Like stuff I can't just do on my own at home." She paused to take another bite of food. "I mean, unless that'd be too much all at once. I dunno. I wouldn't mind it, but if you think I'd get too tired or hurt or anything -." She cut herself off and popped a piece of fish in her mouth, staring at him as she chewed quietly. You're so awkward, Kai. How do you do anything? Oh right, you don't. She wrinkled her nose and looked down at her boxed lunch.

[Arantima Kawada]

He nods to her and Stands up, she really did take to what he was teaching her with great speed. She was quick on the draw and very eager to learn, a good fir.. well second student technically wasn't it? He chuckles to himself as he brushes himself off and gestures for her to stand up with him. "We have been flexing our spirits, now it is time to flex our muscles, get a good heat built up in our bodies to temper the knowledge you've gained into a permanent memory." He takes a very simple stance, not a traditional Hakuda stance as he might usually.

He isn't going to teach her how to fight so much as he is going to teach her how to deflect and repel Blows. "We are about equal on footing in physical strength I would wager, So we can both not hold back, but I won't be aiming to harm you, stopping just before I actually contact you." He Nods to her and this is one time she can not only see but feel his sincerity spiritually, he has made her a promise and he won't break it willingly. "Now To show you these Movements You are going to have to strike me first, don't hold back. I Can take whatever you throw at me I promise.

He Shows her a Standard straight punch, and then two hooking jabs "Come at me just like that.. The first Few times I will simply Block and Take the blows without moving you back or away, when i feel you are comfortable with the punches I will move to counter and parry. I will go slowly so you can feel how it is done. And After a Few times of that, We will switch, I will let you be the Defender then and we will practice the movements until you are satisfied." He Smiles at her warmly and takes his defensive stance.

What he hasn't told her though is that as they Practice and train this way he will subtly be releasing more and more of his spiritual pressure until she can just barely move but no more than that. He Doesn't want to crush her under it but he does want to intensify the training slightly, but not all at once either. it will be a gradual increase in the air around her until she tells him she is done training for the night or until she can't stand anymore from the exhaustion.

[Alexykai]

Kai chewed on her lip as Tima explained what they were going to do now. She flexed her fingers as she watched him demonstrate the punches, and then she nodded. Her little, scarred hands clenched into fists and she took a deep breath. “You really won’t hit me back?...I get to just punch you around a bit?” The idea did sound tempting, she would have to admit. After being the victim so long, it would be nice to be the one in charge for once. Her nose wrinkled. In charge, as if whoever’s doing the punching or stabbing has any sort of authority. She stared at him, and then nodded a little.

The first punch was a little weak, the sign of inexperience as her arm cocked way back and collided weakly against Tima’s jaw. She was not exactly a strong woman, having never had a need to train her muscles. The punch was also inaccurate, and almost even missed, sliding along his cheek as she stumbled forward from the momentum. “Oh -...” She bit her lip, and then squared herself a little better. “Ok.” This time, she still cocked back but the punch was more accurate and a little more powerful, cracking against the side of his jaw, but immediately she hissed softly in pain, shaking her hand out. "Ow..."

She wasn’t used to hitting things. She’d done it once, breaking her knuckles against Dane’s face once after he’d purposefully pissed her off, to see what she could do. Her hands weren’t built for punching, or if they ever had been, she’d made sure to change that. With all the abuse her hands had been through, they were pretty weak structurally, and Tima might hear the little crackle of bones grinding against each other as she popped him again. It was somewhat therapeutic to punch a guy who promised not to punch back. Some of her anger was starting to bubble up with the promise of a release for it. This could be bad for her, if she wanted to keep hiding from her natural aggression.

Kai rolled her shoulders, standing for a moment to look at him. Part of her felt bad for just punching this guy, but the naturally angry part of her that she kept suppressed was enjoying this, and she gave him a punch right for the chin, but this time she was surprised as he grabbed her wrist and pulled her past himself. She wasn’t prepared for that, of course, and she hopped forward to try to keep herself up on her feet, but the surprise and the lack of experience had her sprawled out on the ground, already-chafed hands stinging again. “...I thought you were gonna warn me when we were gonna switch...”

She pulled her feet under herself again, pushing herself back up to stand. She kicked some loose rocks out from under herself, and brushed her hands gingerly against her jeans, leaving faint smears of blood in the denim. “Ok, so -...Ok.” She had a plan. She swung again, anticipating that he would grab her wrist again, and this time her plan was to dance with him, letting him pull her around and clock him one with the other hand. It wasn’t something she really expected to work, but she could dance easily. It was the addition of a punch that she thought might throw her off.

[Arantima Kawada]

He Smirked internally at her small complaint of him surprising her with the counter. That had truly been his plan the whole time, to get her when she wasn't expecting anything to change "I did. But I had meant that i will tell you when we will swap from you attacking me, to the other way around." He Smirked at her and continued along with the course of training as it went for the moment, not changing a thing in his movements but still keeping the pressure building around himself.

He Smiles broadly when she switches her own tactics, Moving with the momentum of the blow and stepping with him to try and clock him again. He Doesn't have the strength or speed in this state to stop her and takes it on the jaw again before turning away from her and spreading the distance between them smartly before rubbing his jaw gently and nodding "With that? I Think it is time to change it up, move on to the defensive portion. You've felt it, now its time to put me through it, over and over again until you can't move anymore. Learning how to do this will open up new avenues of defending yourself and others."

This time his stance Takes on a much more aggressive tone, one she may have seen by dane before, only more refined. He may not be strong but he is very skilled in hand to hand combat. "You do not have to worry about me getting too fancy, a standard Punch is all I will throw. And you just need to do what i did to you, throw me as hard as you can behind yourself and then just run away.. That is what this is primarily for. Running away. Though it can be used offensivly with the right mindset. Are you ready?"

He Waits, for a few moments before moving forward to get in striking distance and throwing a punch that is destined to miss her. His right hand will pass uselessly to the right of her face, but the wind coming off of the blow would tell her if he had wanted to hit her that would have hurt. He Watches her, everything she does closely even if it's flinching. If she doesn't grab him immediately he will hold his arm out straight like it is for a few moments before pulling it back and rolling his shoulders. He Doesn't stop, punching and deliberately missing until she grabs him, and even after he is thrown he gets straight up and comes back at her.

[Alexykai]

As he shifted stance, Kai’s anxiety went up. This was the part where he beat her up and told her she was weak. Some of the color drained from her already-pale face, but she nodded just a little. She waited as he did, not really changing her stance at all as he let her get ready. And when his fist came the first time, she froze, ducked, flinched backward. As she realized he’d missed, one eye opened - When had they closed? She stared at him for a moment as his fist hovered near her ear. And as his fist withdrew again, she realized he’d been giving her an opportunity. Her cheeks flushed and she looked down at her feet, trying to get herself calmed down, and as the second punch came, she cringed a little less.

This time, as his fist hovered, she reached to his wrist to grab it and give him a tug. Her grip was wrong and her tug was barely enough to unbalance him, let alone throw him anywhere. She made a face - almost in despair - as she failed, and when she let go again, she didn’t want to do it anymore. But as he continued, so did she. Slowly at first, grabbing his wrist and trying to pull him to herself, rather than past. With gentle tips from him, she started to try a little harder, getting a little more confident, fixing her grip and her pull. When she finally did pull him behind herself, her face brightened with hope. Maybe she wasn’t so weak after all.

Kai continued for as long as she could, throwing him a little harder every time, and a little more quickly, until his fist didn’t have time to stop before she threw him behind herself. Her palm was stinging from its shallow scrapes and from constantly grabbing him, and her arms were starting to get heavy. She knew she wasn’t particularly strong, so she thought maybe this difficulty was because she wasn’t used to exercising so much. That did have a factor in it, of course. By the end of the night, she was struggling to lift her hands, but she was determined to keep going, until finally she sank to the rocky ground beneath her and she laid there, staring up at the stars. The sky was getting lighter with the coming of dawn.

Kai laid there quietly, panting softly, trying to will her limbs to stop burning. “Just a minute. I just need a minute and then we can keep going.” She looked up at him. Was he sweating like she was? Was he as tired? Did he look as worn down? She frowned subtly. Probably not, he’s used to this stuff. I don’t think he even fell down once. She wrinkled her nose, studying Tima for any sign of exhaustion or soreness. Is this what it’s like every time? Will I get this exhausted any time I try to do anything? She looked up at the sky again, trying to remember what time she’d left the house. I’ve just been exercising for hours. I don’t exercise a lot. Maybe that’s all it is. Too much exercise. Of course that’s it. Duh. Just one minute, and I can keep -

She tried again to get up, but her limbs were too happy with the opportunity to do nothing. She wrinkled her nose and willed herself to move one arm, but it just didn’t move. Come on, Kai, get up. You have to keep going. How will you ever get good at anything if you can’t keep going? She closed her eyes, trying so hard to bully herself into getting up, but her eyes opened as she felt her pocket moving. Is he stealing Beary? She looked down to find Beary moving on his own. What the fuck. The tiny, palm-sized teddy bear crawled out of her pocket and pushed himself to his feet to look up at Tima.

And then, slowly, the bear started to grow. And grow. And grow a little more. Until he was looking down at Tima. Way down. The little plush was now a great Grizzly, standing eight feet over Kai, great plates of metal jutting out of its arms. It bent over Kai, pressing the shields into the ground, and it gave a low, non-threatening growl as it settled into a protective position over the top of her and stared with beady eyes at Tima. It wasn’t aggressive. It just stood over her, staring at him. Maybe it was waiting to continue for her, take her place and train for her. Kai sat up under its belly, staring up at it. She was just as shocked as Tima probably was. “...Beary?”

[Arantima Kawada]

Tima Was Smirking as he watched her on the floor, His Spiritual pressure had finally gotten to be too much for her. He Looked on however as the little bear toy she had shown him from before was moving on it own, and then he recalled she had told him that bounts dont use weapons.. They use creatures or Dolls of some sort. He Took a step back as the bear just continued to grow until he got to 8 feet in height, and rested shields down onto the ground in front of kai and let out a low growl. Either Her doll realised what he was doing or Kai's subconsious did and was telling him to let her up.

He looks up and down the thing with a  slow nod and the area around himself becomes as normal again. Kai would find herself able to move very easily now, though perhaps still sore and tired. "My Apologies for not telling you, But i was exerting Gravitational pressure on the area around us.. To intensify the training. Even just moveing after awhile was enough to tax your spirit. I'm actually quite surprised you lasted as long as you did, Good job Kai." Even as he speaks he doesn't take his eyes off the giant bear before him.

He knows that while sealed.. This Creature would squash him, but when he releases he could take the beast on with little to no trouble, however he would also probably wipe out the entire island doing so. He Looks down and around the sheilds as best he can giving a smile and leaving the lunch boxes where they had been "Well kai.. You have had a productive night i think. And Remember, tons of homework huh? Though, Is he still made of sfluff? Maybe only a half ton." He Winks to Kai as he steps further and further back away.

He draws his Zanpakuto and looks back at kai as he sheathes his blade into the space between worlds once again and looks kai over "Maybe the next time I see you, we will actually be able to fight a bit. I'd love to get my hands on you a bit more roughly" He Winks before stepping inside. The blush on his face would have been easy to see even with just the barest rising sunlight over the edge of the sea, that was a very forward little flirt there. No wonder he rushed through the opening just as a butterfly landed on his shoulder.