Training Incognito! (Amare, CTP, NDE)

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"You mean crazy people!?" Noooooooo....You mean...Like....NOTHING she said made it through?! But she...She just kind of EXPLAINED in the easiest way possible. After all, this wasn't an easy thing to comprehend. When she was human, she never in her wildest dreams would have though things like arrancar or shinigami existed. She always thought she died and that was it. Sometimes, she wondered what her life would be like if the whole wine massacre thing didn't happen. She wondered if the might even be a shinigami. After all, life was fine until that incident happened. She really was a happy human girl. Average Japanese chick with friends and a family. Who knows what could have happened if she continued to live that live. "NO! No no no no no no. Not crazy..That's politically incorrect!...Right? Is it Li Mei?" Li Mei simply tilted her head as she blinked curiously. "I..uhm...ah...I'm not s-sure?"

...So cute. It was sick.

Literally, all Li Mei had to do was stand there and look pretty and absolutely NO one minded at all. "Ehehe. Anywaaayy...Aha. You're not crazy. There are lots of NORMAL and SANE humans like yourself that are spiritually aware so to speak. You really have nothing to worry about. TRUST me. It's not being crazy. She tried to reassure him. "I'm sure you've seen weird stuff around Karakura. Stuff you figured only you could see and others can't. You're not alone. Aha." Maybe it was the sort of thing he'd have to see to believe. Hm. Probably. But not right now. Training was more important. She's totally gonna make him into one of those shiny-shiny humans. She had yet to discover their species name. She felt like a scientist. She was the next Einstein!

....Too much? Ehe.

Oh! Training! Let's surprise him and see if he pulls a Houdini again! "Think fast!" she yelled as she threw a punch at his face. She held back a lot of force so maybe it wouldn't hurt as much. She also didn't come at him as fast so he might be able to keep up. She didn't want to kill him after all. That would suck.

[Kaen Youji]

(ooc: Too tired to switch accounts. Deal with it.)

Amare started to blush at Li Mei's voice, and then faced Asuma as he continued to speak. "Spirit...ually... aware?" Aaaahhhhhh! This made NO sense. Why didn't it make sense? Oh god! Was he not just insane now but stupid too!? This was such an uncool day.... Amare was getting depressed very, very quickly. That wasn't good at all.

He almost missed the 'Think fast!' from his instructor though, and reacted to it, glancing up from his thoughts just in time for Asuma's punch to connect solidly with his face and smash him backwards making him fall onto his back, grabbing his nose, which was bleeding, and looked broken. "....Ow." Was all he managed to get out. It was a miracle he was still conscious given he'd taken that one basically as a suckerpunch.

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Maybe he's one of those watch and learn people..Maybe she should stop trying to explain things to him. Maybe this manly gigai was uncomfortable after running around in it for 10 hours and MAYBE she was hungry. All important factors..All of them! They all explained why Amare was so confused about all of this. Makes sense. It's only natural, ne~?. Asuka saw the depressed look on his face. Uh-oh. Who made her student sad?! She'll kill 'e-- Oh. Her. Ehehehe. Whoops. "My bad..." "Awh. Hey! Don't look sad! Actually, don't concentrate on that right now. Focus on this mmkay?"

Bloody nose was bloody. Awh. Bloody hell! Haha. Pun! The teal haired Espada wondered what Amare's reaction would be to her coming out of a gigai. Maybe he'd believe if he saw that. Maybe he'd pass out. Maybe she was still hungry. All of which were possible. The idea of him freaking out when she exited her gigai sounded all kinds of entertaining to chipper arrancar. She was definitely going to have to do that by the end of this whole thing. Definitely. So she kinda had to make sure he stayed alive. Then again, she wasn't really planning on going easier. Not after learning he was a fullbring. They needed more training than arrancar or shingami. Their bodies were different after all.

"C'mon, Amare concentrate! I'm gonna throw another one at you!" she warned. With that being said, she threw another punch. Her fist began to sail towards his stomach and this time she held back even more force and speed.

[Amare Mori]

As Amare tried to scramble to at least a kneeling position, he brought his free hand over to his nose, trying to clear away the blood. With no points in Healing Expertise, he had no idea how to reset the broken nose, and was wildly pulling and pushing at it, probably making it worse. Amare started to stand up, accepting this and let go of his nose, noting his blood was covering his hand now. ....So uncool... He thought as Asuma announced he was attacking again!

Amare opened his mouth in surpise. "W-wai--" And then Asuma's punch caught him in the gut, causing Amare to double over, clutching his gut from the blow. "Ghkh...." Amare uttered an exclamation of pain. But it was a feint! He recognized that Asuma had held back. He could take this level of pain, unpleasant as it was. After taking a second or two to groan in pain, Amare suddenly stepped forwards, shooting an uppercut at Asuma's jaw, using his legs to fire the uppercut with such force he was actually leaping into the air! "Shoryuken!"

Amare wasn't done then, turning into a midair roundhouse kick to attack Asuma's side. It seemed he was tenacious if nothing else. Now! To cement my combo![/color] He thought and, as he landed, threw up his opposite hand, attempting to throw his blood into Asuma's eyes. Successful or not, Amare would again push towards Asuma, his fists flying. One, two, three, four... five. Five consecutive blows. Amare sent five straight punches at Asuma's torso, figuring that if quality wasn't going to work, he would go for quantity. Finally, Amare finished his combination of punches off with a body hook aimed at Asuma's liver.

The fighter stepped back, his hands up defensively. "Howzat, Asuma-sensei!?" He declared, expecting his instructor to fall at any moment... Or... maybe he was just having another fantasy again. ....Yes. Yes he was. And this one was proving to be even more dramatic than the first one! Yikes. Amare really seemed to have a bit of an overactive imagination here. Especially in his situation! But it would take too long to go into what exactly Amare was daydreaming about. Suffice to say, it involved Asuma falling over from the blows, Amare winning Li Mei's heart, and then somehow working in a dragon and some werecows. Sparkling werecows that practiced magic! So I guess that'd make them Sparkle Wizard Werecows! How he worked those in I have NO freaking idea, but he did.

Needless to say, it was unlikely that daydream was going to come to fruition in any sense whatsoever. Especially when to make ANY of it work, his combo would have had to have put Asuma down, a feat that in and of itself was less likely than a Sparkle Wizard Werecow ever even showing up here. ...Or existing for that matter. Poor, poor Amare Mori. He really had no idea what he was getting into.

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Like, really? He was doubling over? She held back! What the hell! She wasn't trying to beat the crap out of him! Maybe she could get away with it by telling him that this is for pain tolerance and call it a day. That's what Kuroi did to her. But every knew that was true...His desire to severely fuck her up was also true. So, it was both. Painful yes. Did she appreciate it? No. Not with that demon's intent but hey! It made her stronger. And now she's the Noveno, so there are absolutely no complaints on her end.

Asuka wasn't going to tell anyone this, but she kinda felt bad for throwing him around like this. However he wasn't dead and we all know that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. She was beginning to think that maybe she shouldn't be the one sparring against him. No, it should be someone weaker. Her gaze shifted over to a certain purple-haired fraccion who was perched atop a boulder with a rather defiant look plastered on his face like a grumpy kid. Perhaps he was a better sparring candidate. One would think Li Mei was idea, she was the weakest here. However, Asuka figured that Amare was not going to fight her. Not when he was as helpless as a lovestruck puppy around her.

She was so deep in contemplation that she almost hadn't noticed Amare initiating his own attack. "Shoryuken!" ...was what snapped her back. "Eh?" was what she muttered out as she blinked multiple times in confusion. She felt his fist slam into her jaw. With her strength and hierro and all that fancy crap, it wasn't going to do much. But it was still something. She moved a foot back to stabilize herself when he finished his uppercut. She was going to counter. A minor tactical error on her part, but she figured he'd punch her again. She brought her fists up ready to defend herself but instead, he delivered a kick to her side and she'd mentally curse. Sure, he was harmless now, but if it was a serious enemy it could've been pretty bad.

She was able to tough it out and when he landed, she'd quickly bring her fists up. She'd notice when he brought his hand up to throw blood in her eyes and Asuka would bring her arm in the way, allowing the blood to hit her sleeve. He'd come at her again and this time, he was going to come for her torso. She braced herself for his punches. He didn't do much damage. She could retaliate in the middle. Somewhere around the second to last punch she'd grab his wrist and toss him lightly in Kin's direction, who undoubtedly was going to get even more pissed off at Amare.

"Howzat, Asuma-sensei!?" She'd grin. "Aha. Not bad! But I think now, you need a different opponent." she pointed at Kin who was at this point glaring daggers at the poor human. "I want you to fight Kin instead~! Aha. So Kin...Please...Don't kill the kid." The fraccion crossed his arm and gave a look of annoyance to his superior. "Ugh. Whatever. I'll try not to. Okay!?" Asuka would look at Amare and sheepishly grin. "Doooon't worry. He's not gonna kill you!" she said in an attempt to reassure him. The fraccion's anger was almost comparable to a certain empress. Almost.

[Amare Mori]

Aha! His uppercut had landed! Step one was now a success! As Amare launched himself into the air, he saw Asuma had raised his arms to block a second punch, and his kick had landed as well! So far, so good! His punches on Asuma's midsection were also landing nearly flawlessly. Or so it appeared. It seemed Asuma was not amused by this though and grabbed Amare's wrist. Too easy. Or should have been, had it not been for Asuma's formidable strength. Still, Amare was able to do something.

As Asuma grabbed his wrist, he turned his own wrist to the outside, pushing down on Asuma's wrist, trying to break his grip. With his free hand, he attempted to grab Asuma's opposite sleeve, preparing for another tomoe nage, like before. But then, Asuma went to throw him. And well.... that plan went to shit. However, instead of being thrown at Kin, Amare's grip on his teacher's sleeve caused him to whip out to the side, accidentally tearing his sleeve clean off from the force and going flying.

Amare collided with the same tree as before, and before he could even try and improvise a breakfall, his head collided with the trunk. Amare was out like a light, in an instant. And unlike before, he wouldn't be up nearly as readily this time. Knocked out twice in a matter of minutes? That was pretty rough, and his physical fatigue and injuries considered, his body now needed a ton of rest. His body was now basically useless, having been running on willpower alone. With his willpower cut, Amare wasn't going anywhere, anytime soon. It looked like Kin was gonna have to sit this one out.

In an unconscious haze, Amare's head swam with images, half dream, half waking. He was in that state of unconsciousness right before you awake. REM sleep, I suppose you could call it. Either way, he was basically in dreamland now, dreaming of Li Mei, and happy, joyous things, that this time, did not involve werecows or Sparkle Wizards, or having to beat people up. And especially no crazy people. That just wouldn't be cool at all. Nope! Amare was drifting in a peaceful dream, far away from the severe injuries his body had suffered in his match. In all likelihood it was probably better that way.

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...Okay. Maybe she should have sent Kin out to train with Amare alot earlier. Asuka was really trying to watch herself. Trying to tone everything down and keeping her strength and speed to a level Amare could keep up with. Unfortunately, that was harder than getting Bessy to admit he was a creature of the night. Poor guy was just really confused and seemed to deny everything! Kind of like Amare. But he was one of those special humans. A species that needed to be named. Hmm..Homosapien. They were magical humans right? That might work...Might....If only the espada could figure out what it meant..

Anyways, when she threw him. She figured that maybe he'd fly into Kin and that they'd fight. That was the plan. But if there was anything Asuka was going to learn from this, it was that Amare was a relentless one. Instead of colliding with Kin, Amare managed to keep his grip on her sleeve and whipped out to the side. Her sleeve ripped right off and Asuka would gape and stare at her now bare arm for a few moments and then at Amare who hit the trunk pretty hard. "What is this. I don't even...!" Okay...definitely a wtf moment. She really didn't mean to throw him that hard. At this point, it was obvious that this was a recurring theme in their training. She didn't mean to but it happened anyway...? Yeah that needed to stop. Then again, it wasn't going to happen right away. It's only been a day. It actually took Asuka several months to get where she was today, thanks to the Baker's helpful devices.

Perhaps stopping here was a good idea. If he overexerted himself, it could be really bad. "Ah...I always manage to lose some portion of my clothing," ,she sheepishly grinned as she looked at her arm, color=mediumturquoise]"I'm lucky it's just an arm. Aha"[/color] she said jokingly looking at her comrades. At this, Li Mei would let out a knowing sign and Kin would simply shake his head. Both well aware of their boss' horrible luck and her habit of losing clothing. Hey, it's really not her fault that her clothing just suddenly decided to take flight and abandon her. Asuka would walk over to the human who was currently out cold. She held a worried expression on her face as she looked at him. "Okay, we should probably stop here." she announced. Though, Amare probably wouldn't catch that. She kinda delivered the K.O to the poor guy.

"Will he be alright, Asuma-sama?"

"Is he dead..?"

"I dunno... Aha. I sure hope not...to Kin's question that is.."

"He looks dead....Someone poke him..with like, a stick or something..."

Asuka was more than ready to try that, but another thought came to her. This guy totally digs Li Mei...unbeknownst to her. Probably. She was so shy, it was almost hard to tell whether she was embarrassed or scared. How funny would it be if he woke up to the sound of her voice? It was worth trying. If it didn't work, then they could always pour water on the guy, right? "I think Li Mei should try waking him up! Aha." she exclaimed. Kin merely rolled his eyes at this. With that being said, she'd lightly poke his arm."A-Amare...are you dead? A-Are you still alive?" [/size]

[Amare Mori]

Yep. Sadly, for a normal human (well, "normal" is relative) Amare had taken a hell of a lot of punishment. Far more than he probably should have. Medical attention might not be a half-bad idea. Seriously. It was a miracle he'd even lasted this long. And honestly, letting him sleep was the kinder thing, rather than force him to wake up to the reality that he hadn't even been able to put a scratch on his instructor. I mean, sure that was to be expected, but it was still a very disheartening thing.

But, through the veil of unconsciousness, at Li Mei's voice, Amare began to stir, his body rising up awkwardly in a zombie-like manner. "Ugh... how long have I been out?" He asked, as he was immediately aware that he had been knocked unconscious. The throbbing headache and the ringing in his ears was all too obvious of that. Focusing in on Li Mei's voice, however, Amare snapped awake and leapt to his feet. "Aha! Of course I am! Dying from something as minor as that would be totally uncool!" He declared proudly.

....And then his legs promptly gave out from under him, and Amare dropped like a stone to the ground. He was conscious this time, sure, but his legs were like jelly and he couldn't stand. "Oh.... but that was really uncool..." He commented slowly, catching his breath. Shoot, he was really winded too on top of that? Damn he'd taken some heavy hits. He wouldn't be going anywhere fast at this rate. Sure, his heart was there, but his body couldn't keep up. Ah.... that's SO uncool....[/i] Amare bemoaned in his mind.

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She just knew it was going to work. Man, it was almost like Li Mei was the answer to all her problems. The most convenient one at that. Angry guy coming your way? Stop them with Li Mei's adorableness. Need something and someone's telling you no? HAHA. They need her adorableness to tell them otherwise. She was a force of nature. One no one really noticed because they probably never took the time to realize it. Not even Asuka thought about it until she actually got her to be her fraccion. She waited with the others for Amare to show signs of life. Li Mei who was worried sick about the poor boy and Kin who had a stick ready to prod and possibly poke both his eyes out.

"Ugh... how long have I been out?" He was alive! "...Damn." she heard Kin utter as he threw the stick away. Li Mei looked at him excitedly as did Asuka. "A while. Aha! At least you're awake. I told you this training would be tough stuff." she smirked. "Hey! Don't worry about it! We've only had one training session. No one gets it the first time." she tried to reassured him. She'd watch him try to stand and she'd wear a look of uncertainty. "Uhh..I wouldn't try that if I wer-- ...You..." she saw him falling she'd move to attempt to catch him. "Asuka-sama. He's obviously done. I mean...darling, I know you want him to get stronger but he just isn't in any condition! C'moooon, Asuka-sama. Can we go NOW!?" he whined for a moment but then covered his mouth realizing his mistake.

"U-Uhm. Asuka-sama, h-h-he's kinda..ri--" she was instantly silenced by Kin's hand over her mouth. They'd both made the same mistake. Asuka-sama. Asuka looked at them shocked and then at Amare. Cat's out of the bag, huh? Asuka would laugh nervously and she'd give a sheepish smile. "Aha...It's okay. No use hiding it anyway, right?" she shrugged and within a few moments, she took off the gigai. It was such a troublesome thing really, but it did it's job. Amare wouldn't find a man with oddly colored hair in front of him. He'd find a girl with long teal hair. "Ehehe. OKAY BEFORE YOU FREAK OUT...Uhm. I'm not Asuma. Aha. I'm really Asuka and uhm...yeah...I'm a girl..Not a guy" she said with a nervous grin. How he was going to take that...she wasn't sure.

"...How about getting you to the hospital now?! Aha."

[Amare Mori]

Well. Asuka would be correct on one thing. Li Mei's voice certainly worked wonders on Amare, if on nobody else. So well done on that. Again, if his body could keep up with his heart, then all Li Mei would have to do would be tell Amare how Sonken Kouhai was bullying her, and the lord of Hueco Mundo would be dethroned in a matter of minutes. Sadly, this was not the case, and Amare was, at the end of the day, only human. Sonken Kouhai won this round! But he would not win the war! ...Actually, no. He'd probably win that too. Regardless! Amare would not KNOW that Sonken won the war, for he had no knowledge of who Sonken Kouhai even was!

But he did know that Asuka wasn't a masculine name. That's fine! Amare kind of assumed that the villainous Kin had made a mistake. And then Li Mei said it too! Well! Li Mei COULDN'T be mistaken. But perhaps Asuma-sensei was simply a little embarassed at having a woman's name. That happened sometimes and Amare sympathized!

And then.... Amare's world was flipped upside down. Potentially permanently. Asuma just..... hopped out of his body. Amare would have sprung up in alarm if his body was physically capable of it. All he could do was widen his eyes in shock, as his jaw dropped. He glanced around to see if anyone else was seeing this, but, as expected of finding a secluded area, nobody was around. His mind kind of went blank, barely taking in Asuka's introduction. And then a lone thought came to him. All those punches he'd landed, his throws.... even if they hadn't affected Asuka at all, one fact emerged from them.

I hit a girl.......[/color] Amare thought as his face went pale. ".....I'm so uncool..." Amare remarked in a depressed tone of voice. Well. That totally did it. More effectively than any punch, Amare simply flopped backwards onto his back and passed out again, his mind suddenly in the same state his body was. Ouch.

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You know, she was definitely expecting him to laugh this entire thing off. She personally thought it would be hysterical...but such was not the case. Unfortunately. He passed out again. Again. Man, this was no good! What's he gonna do if he was fighting seriously!? Enemies would destroy him! Ah, well. This was only one day of training and he's made progress. Small but still nevertheless progress. It was better than nothing and it was definitely better than when she first started. Good times. Back when she was far too weak to get up from most attacks. Those were the good 'ol days. Actually, they weren't but she did have few fond memories.

None of that mattered though. What mattered was the boy and his passing out. So what if the girl just hopped out of her skin?! Pft. Snakes do it all the time! Not only that, but it was just a gigai. Of course, she was forgetting that he understood none of her little spiritual freak talk earlier. Poor guy thought he was clinically insane or somethin'. "H-Hey..It's no big deal y'know! I kinda told you about this before!" she said almost as if to pacify her actions. Of course, that wouldn't work. It had been about a century and a half since she was human so she couldn't possibly fathom how shocking this might be to him. She was the youngest of the Espada, but still quite old.

".....I'm so uncool..." Asuka blinked at that and then he just fell backward. Maybe this whole thing was too much for him. That was apparent but she was going to give up on this one. Nope! He had potential. She could only hope that he'd become somewhat stronger from when they first met. Not once did she think that he passed out because she revealed was she was indeed of the female species and not a guy. "Uhm.." was all the red head could utter and Kin begrudgingly picked up the human and walked off. "Right. To the hospital." he said with a flat tone. With that, the three left the park to give the human in some much needed medical attention.

[[ End of training thread. ]]

[Zou ۞]

+700 CTP