Defense or Offense: Yetsuna vs Shizuyoko [NDE, R]

[Shizuyoko Toraumi]

Thread Title: Armored Defense or Endless Offense! Yetsuna vs Shizuyoko!
Participants: Yetsuna Yishnir, Shizuyoko Toraumi
World: Soul Society
Death Setting: Non Death Enabled
Rating: R
Location: The Fight occurs in a Training Arena located in the outer rim of the Sereitei. Originally a dense forest, a good expanse of space was cleared recently in hopes of accommodating the rise in spars occurring within the gotei areas, and as a means of encouraging members not to spar close to barracks or other important areas.

This Arena is entirely flat and is a massive 100meter by 100 meter square. It even has built-in kido barriers to ensure the safety of spectators.
Special Conditions:
Circumstances: Yetsuna and Shizuyoko have certainly clashed in the past, with Shizuyoko being the clear victor. However after all this time the two girls find eachother meeting up again! And what better way to catch up with eachother than to have another rousing round of spars?

A team of Squad Four, among several other onlookers who saw the first fight have gathered to see who the winner will be this time around! The Thread begins just a little while before the fight is supposed to take place, giving both girls time to chat a little before their fight begins.

[Yetsuna Yishnir]

Yetsuna made her way along the path to the training ground and a lackadaisical pace, taking in the surrounding and appreciating the nice day that it was. The sky was clear and the sun was at it's apex shining down on the land, it was comfortably warm, just hot enough so you didn't need and extra layers, cut cool enough that you weren't sweating just being outside. Even by the standards of the seireitei it was an exceptionally nice day. And the perfect day for a fight.

About a week or so ago the green haired female got a letter from a courier from someone she actually hadn't heard from in a long time; Shizuyoko. She was one of the first people she had fought in earnest, and she still remembers how badly she had lost. The fight between the two of them was over fast, the blonde girl had used some trick and basically gutted her like a trout. To her own credit though she had managed to stay conscious despite her wounds and, for the most part, on her own two feet, though Shizu did help her over to the medical tent after she stumbled a few feet.

After that fight it was Shiu who thought Yetsuna a few of the step techniques she knows now, but after their training session they lost contact, probably because the green haired shinigami over player her hand romantically. The blonde was one of the first girls she had liked so she drove into the situation a bit faster then she should have, but she was young, technically still was by Gotei standards, but still. She's had well over a century to mature and grow, she wondered what her old friend would think of the new her.

She brought her thoughts back to present as she reached the perimeter of the training grounds, the area where the letter said to meet. Chances were Shizuyoko didn't just wanna catch up if they were meeting out here, she probably wanted to have a rematch. Yetsuna was more then happy to oblige, she loved a good fight, that said, she couldn't help but wonder what had caused the sudden out reach. She had never reached out to Shizu because she was embarrassed about her actions when she was younger and felt like she had killed whatever relationship the two of them had. Why had Shizu reached out to her?

She stepped into the area and looked around. Squad 4 was already here and set up, not a bad thing to have on standby considering how their last fight had ended, but that wasn't the thing that had really caught her eye. Lining large sections of the areas perimeter were groups, mostly males, but a few female in the mix, waiting for the fight to start. The female shinigami chuckled to herself, she hadn't even announced this fight to anyone, and she doubted Shizuyoko did either, but people still managed to find out and come to watch.

Anytime she went to go fight there was always a crowd, sometimes large, other times small. For the most part those crowds turned out, if for no other reason, then to just get a glimpse of her. Yetsuna may not have been the beauty queen of the Gotei, but she was somewhere in the royal family so that made her a bit of an object of desire for men, and the occasional woman. Shizuyoko was fairly high up on the beauty meter too, and was likely to draw just as much of a crowd, if not more so. God knows Yetsuna would show up to one of her fights just to get a look at her again.

As the green haired woman finished glimpsing around the arena she saw no sign of the blonde bombshell, so she just walked up towards the center of the ring where she'd be easily visible and took her sword off her back. It was a fairly large blade in comparison to most those used in the Gotei, her's being about equivalent to a hand-and-a-half (bastard) sword. She drove the sheathed blade into the ground a few inches, enough where it would be supported on its own, and then sat down of the ground, her back leaning against the makeshift backrest that was her sword. 

[Shizuyoko Toraumi]

The air around the training area was, frankly, a buzz with the mutterings and chatter of the forecoming match. Yetsuna and Shizuyoko. For... varied reasons, the two had become fairly well known among their peers. And now, after such a long time of making their debut in the arena of some outter district, the two had become full fledged members of their squads, and now were looking to have a rematch. And of course... when Yetsuna set down her sword, waiting for shizuyoko to arrive, she wouldn't have to wait very long.

Like a wraith, Shizuyoko snuck up on the other shinigami, a smile on her face as she apprached from behind, and using her considerably formidable stealth skills, she closed in and stood beside the woman, a smile on her face as she tilted her head and gave them a friendly look as she walked into their field of vision, likely appearing out of nowhere as she doubted Yetsuna had trained herself in spotting stealthed individuals.

"Well well well... I have to say I'm a little envious. You seem to have grown a lot since we last met!" that bright, happy voice pealed out, and Yetsuna would practically feel a palpable wave of warm feeling coming off of Shizuyoko. But this wouldn't be the first time she'd felt it, that absolute purity about the woman that seemed to be drenched in nothing but goodness. Her very smile seemed to thaw even the darkest of hearts around her, and there were murmurs among the swuad around her, as those who knew about her felt... a chill. Shizuyoko was not known for her beauty. But because of her viciousness.

The state in which she had left her last sparring partner had not escaped gossip. many claim that despite that warm feeling and gorgeous face, Shizuyoko had hacked her last partner to pieces, and then dragged them back to squad four so that they could be put together for her to attack again later. Rumors... silly ones, but they existed, and they had garnered a dark and dreary reputation around the already infamous member of the Punishment force.

Shizu smiled brightly, and likely Yetsuna might be a little... amazed. She wasn't in her standard uniform. As obviously she didn't waste her on-duty time with stuff like this usually. She was in her casual attire. A pure black hakama shamelessly stolen from the shinigami uniform, with a firm black satin ribbon binding her chest, the ribbon was trimmed in an intricate gold lining, and around each of her bicepts was a plain black band with a white insignia, seven serpents consuming eachother's tails. And speaking of tails, hers were no longer hidden. Those meter-long, black, scaly lengths casually swayed behind her like hellish tentacles, her two zanpaku'to casually stuck into the ground beside her as she gave Yetsuna a smile.

"It's been so long!" She squealed, rushing in with a sudden burst of speed, suddenly putting her arms around Yetsuna as she outright hugged the woman rather tightly, even giving them a firm little squeeze before backing up and putting on a bright smile. "I honestly have been thinking about meeting you for a while now. But anyway.. I wanted to make sure that you were doing okay. I... well I felt bad after our last match after all." She noted, her eyes moving to the place where there aught to be scars on Yetsuna. But then again the woman may have healed them since then.

"I wanted to see how you were doing. And if you didn't mind. I wanted to have a proper spar with you this time. No cutting eachother up. At least not unless you want to." She chuckled jokingly, but several of the audience shivered at it, knowing that (or rather believeing that) Shizuyoko would butcher Yetsuna at the blink of an eye. Even so, shizu ignored them only up until now, glancing about and tilting her head a little. "Looks like we drew a bit of a crowd... you always WERE really popular." She noted with that bright smile.

[Yetsuna Yishnir]

Less then a minute after Yetsuna had sat down to relax her friend had arrived, though not in the fashion she was expecting. Like Shizuyoko thought the green haired woman wasn't well versed in spotting stealthy opponents, it was one of her weakness, then again she normally dealt with enemies head on, so she never had much of a reason to train for it. Shizuyoko snuck her way around Yetsuna, with the latter having no idea she was being stalked, suddenly appearing with a greeting and a smile.

Her sudden appearance did cause Yetsuna a small amount of surprise, though it didn't exactly cause her to jump to her or anything. She smiled back at her friend and retorted, "Well, yeah, that kind of thing tends to happen over the years." Overall, the green haired woman actually hadn't really changed much physically, at least in her own opinion. Since her last meeting with Shizu she had gotten a little taller and a bit bustier, but she didn't feel like she had changed much. Then again, subtle changes seem much more dramatic when you haven't seen someone in a long time.

That or maybe she was just talking about how much stronger her reaitsu had gotten over the years. Flip a coin?

Either way it didn't really matter. Yetsuna picked herself up off the ground and was immediately glomped by the blonde as she exclaimed about how long it had been. She felt the girls arms wrap around her...and then she felt several more arms join in. the green haired shinigami was no stranger to weird shit, but she hadn't really been expecting that and a weird look went across her face as Shizu talked, most the words falling on deaf ears as Yetsuna waited to get her question in.

"Uhhhh, why do I feel more then two arms wrapped around me?" she asked in a casual tone, though there was a touch of confusion mixed in with it. When Shizuyoko broke off the hug that would be when she realized the girl was now sporting tails, something Yetsuna was fairly sure she didn't have in the past. Her eyebrow would cock heavily when she saw them "What's with the tails?" she'd ask in the same tone.

The two females might have a sort back and forth depending on the answer she was given, but eventually the conversation would move on and the blonde female would take a moment to observe the area, and Yetsuna would take a moment and try to, discreetly, observe Shizu. She looked good, even after the past century, then again shinigami normally age well so that shouldn't have been much of a surprise. All things consider she still looked as gorgeous as the day they had met, though the tails did add a bit of a weird feeling to the entire situation. 

"Yeah, what can I say? My girls get me a lot of attention," she said with a warm laugh back. The statement was probably truer then it should of been.

[Shizuyoko Toraumi]

Shizuyoko smiled brightly as Yetsuna seemed just as well as she had been before, making a soft little noise of enjoyment as she looked them over. However she did have to take pause when the woman asked about her tails. She glanced down at those black, scaly lengths behind her and she gave a sheepish smile at that. "To be honest I've always had them, I just decided not to hide them anymore. They'e just... a part of me." She noted simply. And really it WAS as simple as that. She hadn't had an accident or anything, they had always been a part of her. From hollow to arrancar and beyond, the only time theyd vanished was when she was a human for a while. It was still a little strange to have people be weirded out by them.

Clearing her throat, she rubbed the side of her neck and looked around, rolling her shoulders a little as she noticed the way Yetsun was eyeing her. And not even in the way that they used to. Immediately a look of worry crossed her features as she stepped closer and gently put her hands on Yetsuna's shoulders, looking at them worriedly. "Are you okay? You.... you don't seem as.... happy as you were before. Last time we met you were all over me, hugging me and all that. Smiling. But now you're all....serious." She murmured, that concern only growing.

"I.... didn't do that did I?" She asked, suddenly looking like she was on the verge of tears as she realized she may have destroyed that happiness in Yetsuna. Had the gap in their strength been that depressing? The very idea made Shizuyoko begin to tear up a little, clearly distraught by Yetsuna's shift in personality. She had to admit this was the first time she had ever seen smeone she was semi close to have such a dramatic personality shift for the negative. And really it was beginning to make her anxious.

Would she ave taken it back? No of course not. That won battle had paved the way for who she was now. Regret seemed like such a stupid, silly thing. Shinigami got so obsessed over their past, thinking about what they might have changed. But honestly Shizuyoko never really worried about that. Had she looked back in retrospect? Naturally. But not once had her failures in the past ever upset her. The here and the now had always been her concern. And right here and now, Yetsuna seemed so.... serious... so sullen. Those tails writhed erratically behind her, making it insanely obvious how upset this was making her.

[Yetsuna Yishnir]

The green haired woman seemed to have a small revelation when Shizuyoko mentioned that she had always had the tail, "That's how you beat me all those years ago isn't it?" she said in a playfully accusing tone, "You cheater." She'd be laugh afterwards, she honestly didn't care and didn't really think her a cheater, she was just pulling her leg, not that her tone made her accusation sound legitimate in anyway. 

Yetsuna's attempt to check out the blonde on the down low didn't exactly work and she got caught, though what followed wasn't exactly what she had been expecting. Shizu's face changed to one of concern and she began expressing some concern for the changes she had noticed her friend had undergone. The green haired shinigami was actually fairly surprised by the sudden change in conversation direction and topic, something that was made fairly apparent by the surprised look on her face.

"Oh! No, no, no, no." she'd respond back as fast as she could get the words out, "You didn't do anything I promise." While the green haired shinigami had said her piece it wasn't too difficult to tell that there was a bit more to it then she let on. She debated internally for a moment before deciding to just throw all her cards on the table. With a small sigh she started to explain "I'm just trying to be careful is all. I figured after I had kissed you I had kinda ruined our friendship, so I'm trying to make sure I don't do anything to ruin it again." Yetsuna gave of small semi-nervous laughs as she talked trying to play off what she was saying as no big deal.

This wasn't to say that Yetsuna was the same girl from all those years ago, the past century had put her through a fair amount, but at very least when it came to her not being all over Shizu that was the honest truth. She didn't wanna do anything stupid after they had just reconnected so she was trying to play it safe. If the blonde shinigami actually wanted Yetsuna to act like that she easily could, though there might be some mild awkwardness as the tone of the situation changed. She also might get a little bit more then she bargained for.

[Shizuyoko Toraumi]

Shizuyoko let out a soft little sigh in relief when Yetsuna told her it wasn't her, though she did make note of the accusation, but really didn't react to it outwardly. Instead she focused on the woman's... explanation? Shizu tilted her head, a little surprised for a moment before she burst out laughing a little, covering her mouth for a moment and shaking her head at how... silly the woman ws. How silly shinigami were. It was... adorable. she had completely forgotten not only that they had kissed, but that shinigami actually got bent out of shape over that sort of thing. In the scope of several thousand years, Shizuyoko honestly didn't care about that sort of thing. She had spent most of her existence being eaten or threatened with far worse.

A kiss? She shook her head, stepping forward and giving a slow, calm smirk. "You thought a kiss bothered me?" She inquired lightly. And leaning in, she promptly slipped both arms around Yetsuna's waist and began tongue-kissing the woman. No build. No pretense. No warning. She simply dove straight into the other girl's mouth for a full thirty seconds of unadulterated, slow, warm, twisting tongue action, with a skill of tongue that would PROBABLY amaze Yetsuna. But of course most of her life Shizuyoko had spent most of her life doing things with her mouths and tongues, back before she had arms. So her tonguework was really quite nimble.

Pulling back with a wet smack, Shizuyoko idly wiped her mouth and shrugged, holding her arms wide open. "I never cared about that. I honestly don't understand why anyone is so weird about it. It's not as if you're ugly, or unpleasant. I see no reason as to why you think it would have bothered me." She noted, putting her hands on her hips and sighing a little, a bit anoyed that the problem had been something so silly and stupid. But Yetsuna was a shinigami, so obviously Shizuyoko wasn't going to say or do anything about it. She was in no position to tell Yetsuna what she should or shouldnt worry about.

"Now, with that out of the way. You said something about... cheating yes?" She noted with an idle nod of her head. "If you like. I hve no problem proving that wether or not you had known about the tails, it would not have changed the outcome. We'll have a rematch~" That smile suddenly appeared and a grin spread its way across the woman's face as suddenly a MONSTEROUS reiatsu suddenly rushed it's way outward, a black wave of spiritual pressure that swept out and over the surrounding area as the absolute REEK of arrancar reiatsu shoved several of the weaker shinigami down to their knees, suddenly the feeling of coils would be felt against Yetsuna's skin as over Shizuyoko's light aura, a sudden deep, disgusting 100 dark aura began gushing out of her, being channeled through that black wakizashi: Daihachibi.

The air grew still, and the weight of impending combat clogged the evening. In the distance, the sun was beginning to set.

Shizuyoko pulled both Daihachibi and Nanakiba Orochi from the ground, casually holding them in her hands as she smiled challengingly at Yetsuna. Bringing both blades up and into the air, suddenly a VERY large monster showed around Shizuyoko, a black aura, her reiatsu taking on a ferrocious shape, a massive eight-headed serpent that cast a shadow over the area, and a sudden hush of dreadful silence swept across the spectators as that giant beast suddenly was gone, fading in a flicker of black flames as Shizuyoko's reiatsu continued to ripple along her form like a black fire, that smile on her face still just as sweet, unable to match the ferocity that her sword's aura had to it.

"Unless of course. You just want to skip that part and kneel~"

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{Stats}
Strength - 100 Points (+25%= 125 Points)

Speed - 400 Points (+50%= 600 points)

Spiritual Pressure - 220 Points (-50%= 110 points)

Reiatsu Strength - 50 Points (-50%= 25 points)

Light Aura - 100 Points

Dark Aura - 0 Points

Instinct - 150 Points

Senses - 60 Points

Energy sensory - 0 Points

Healing Expertise - 0 Points


Total SP: 980 (400 from Class, 580 from training)

[Yetsuna Yishnir]

"I...uhhh...kind of," the green haired woman stuttered trying to find words while at the same time trying to figure out what her friend was doing. She was creeping in on her, encroaching slowly, like.....like someone trying to make a move. She was about to ask what Shizu was doing when, quite literally, out of no where she found herself locking lips with the blonde. Yetsuna's eye went wide with surprise, she had not expected this in the slightest.

Yetsuna wasn't going to be very responsive for the first few moment as her mind worked double time to process what the hell had just happened. After that she would begin to return the kiss, trying her best to show the same skill as the blonde but not doing very well. She was a flirt, she lead people on and played with their desires, it was actually fairly rare that she found herself a partner she could indulge her own lusts on, and because of that she actually didn't have much experience in kissing....or other forms of intimacy.

The kiss was held for a (relatively) long time giving the earth shinigami a chance to make a few actions. As she began to return the kiss she would in turn wrap her arms around the blonde in a similar manner that Shizu had done to her, but her arms did not remain where they were. After a good few moments she slowly began to move her hand towards towards the blonde bottom, giving her a chance to say "no" if she wanted to.

If no objection was heard Yetsuna would grasp the blonde butt with both hands and give a firm but sensual squeeze.The green haired shinigami's hand would remain there unless removed until the kiss broken off with a audible "smack" at which point they would wrap around her waist again. Yetsuna would keep her arms around the woman, but if she desired to get away she could easily. "I dunno, I didn't hear from you for some long after the kiss I figured I had done something I shouldn't have, obviously I was wrong." Yetsuna replied back her last few words talking on an alluring tone.

With their moment of intimacy done Shizuyoko issued Yetsuna challenge, a rematch for all those years ago. At the same moment as Shizu cracked a smile, so did Yetsuna, and just before she unleashed her spiritual pressure Yetsuna responded, "We'll see about that." Without a doubt the blonde got the drop on her by releasing spirit energy, but Yetsuna was torn off balance for too long, though the tainted evil feeling she got from the energy didn't go unnoticed. She was willing to bet there was something she couldn't see happening, Shizu was to golden hearted to have such a dark reaitsu.

She kept the observation to herself though, fair confident that she would either figure out what it was or it would be revealed to her before the day was done, in the mean time Yetsuna wasn't one to back down from a challenge. In response Yetsuna flared her own reaitsu, a cocky smile on her face as she did so. Her reaitsu didn't posses an abundance of light or dark like her friends did, but it did have its own traits.

As she flared her reaitsu the air in the area would begin to feel heavy, like the amount of force the air was excreting had increased. The ground at Yetsuna's feet began to crack slightly, as her reaitsu seep out of her and began to take its own form, a golem. It was every bit as large as her friends snake, but it didn't have the same intimidating nature. No, instead it had a air of sturdiness, it had an air of something that demanded respect and would refuse to move in the face of adversity. And then, like the snake, it was gone in an instant.

"Try asking me that again later when we're alone," Yetsuna responded with a smile and a flirtatious tone.

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{Stats}
Strength: 150
Speed: 230
Spiritual Pressure: (340 x 1.50) 510
Reiatsu Strength: (130 x .7) 91
Light Aura: 80
Dark Aura: 20
Instinct: 100
Senses: 100
Energy Sensory: 50
Healing Expertise: 0

SKP: 11/16 (0/8)
Pain Tolerance - 2
Martial Arts: Muay Thai - 1
Strength of Will - 2
Weapons: Swords - 2
Damage Recovery - 2
Battle Analysis - 2

[Shizuyoko Toraumi]

Shizuyoko tilted her head calmly at that, her brows lifting slightly as she noticed the slight reply that Yetsuna gave. The way the girl had grabbed onto her rear, and even more, soemthing MORE surprising, but when Shizuyoko had pulled lightly away, Yetsuna had kept her close. And of course, Shizuyoko had immediately stoppeed trying to move away, as she was... surprised. They wanted her to stay close to them? She understood that even with her tails, people still found her pretty to look at. But she was... astounded, that Yetsuna still wanted to maintain physical proximity. Wasn't she... bothered by the tails? Shizu was ....thoughtful now... This was an unexpected turn.

She didn't blush, but she certainly.... enjoyed the closeness. While it lasted.

She couldn't help but smirk softly in reply to Yetsuna's acceptance of her challenge. She rolled her shoulders and grinned, her tails waving behind her for just a moment as she suddenly adjusted her stance, licking her lips as she took a few steps back from Yetsuna and suddenly she vanished. In a sudden flurry of movement, Shizuyoko executed a Senka. Only she didn't strike. She didn't use her swords. After all, she'd mastered Senka at this point, in that sudden brief instant, instead of stabbing Yetsuna through the chest, she firmly oriented herself, executing two consecutive high-speed kicks, one of which didn't actually strike, so much as it did shove Yetsuna's head to the side, knocking her off balance, before the second motion then stomped down, dropping her heel towards the ground, her leg snagging Yetsuna's head in the process as she aimed to slam Yetsuna's head into the earth.

After all, Shizuyoko had a very... weak spirit. even against opponents below her class, cutback was something she was often hit with frequently, it was simply something she was used to having to deal with, so she avoided impact strikes altogether, instead aiming to use the floor as a suitable thing to beat Yetsuna with, using her combined knowledge of Hoho and Hakuda to pull off the ground-slamming kick. It was a VERY sudden and slightly vicious move. But it DID avoid using her zanpaku'to, which admittedly as Yetsuna would remember, is Shizuyoko's version of going easy after all.

Once the kick was executed, o rather attempted, Shizuyoko immediately followed the senka up with another attack, this time just using her normal enormous speed (which was still quite a bit faster than yetsuna's ability to react or catch up) to try and take the woman's arms and twist them behind her back, HOPEFULLY with her heel still pinning Yetsuna's face to the dirt, using her weight to keep the woman down to make sure that Yetsuna's slight strength superiority wouldn't be enough of a factor to let them overpower her. Or at least she hoped. After all it had been AGES since she'd fought Yetsuna.

Hopefully the girl didn't have any new tricks up her sleeve.

-100 Reiatsu for Senka
1000/1100 reiatsu

[Yetsuna Yishnir]

The green haired woman felt a light tug on her arms as Shizuyoko went to pull away after their kiss, but the Yetsuna kept her grip on her, not as a sign of ownership, but a sign that she liked being close to her. A look of surprise shot across the blonde's face when she realized that she was still being held, which caused Yetsuna to give off a small laugh, "Why do you look so surprised?" she ask in a teasing manner before giving her a peck on the nose and releasing her so they could fight.

As her ally/friend/crush took some steps to put distance between the two of them Yetsuna would reach over and with a quick jerk puller her zanpaktou out of the ground and sling it across her back once more before taking up a fighter's stance. With both females ready Shizu made the first move. The blonde vanished from Yetsuna's vision and immediately the green haired woman moved, using a shunpo of her own to shift position, remembering one of Shizu's attacks from the past though it was also a fairly common tactic anyway.

Yetsuna got away from Shizuyoko's attack literally by the skin of her teeth, escaping just before she had been able to wrap herself around her. "Whew, that was a close one. You're faster then I remember," she said as she reappeared a few yards in front of where she had been. Fun and games aside Yetsuna knew her speed advantage was going to be a huge boon or a major handicap. The blonde's superior speed was likely gonna keep her on the defensive, but if she could hold out then Shizu might tire.

"Oh, before I forget; any rules for the rematch?" she asked just a bit too casually considering that she might be on the ass end of an ass kicking. The question had too purposes. The first was just a polite acknowledgement of the rules of engagement, the other was a small attempt for her to bring out her release, both to show off and because she knew her combat effectiveness against strong enemies was fairly limited without the aid of her release. She knew it meant that Shizuyoko could use her's too, much was uncharted territory, but if there was one thing Yetsuna was good at it was defense against unknown enemies.

-50 reaitsu
5050/5100

[Shizuyoko Toraumi]

Shizuyoko was.... astounded. That shouldn't have happened. If the girl had sensed a shunpo sure, they might have been able to escape in the small ammount of time it took between Shizu arriving and executing an attack right after. But they should NOT have been able to avoid an attack DURING a senka. Shizu immediately narrowed her eyes, taking a step back and glowering at Yetsuna, any fondness briefly gone as that face of hers went blank. She was, briefly, pulled into work mode.

Even more, Yetsuna had grabbed her zanpaku'to of all things. Shizuyoko immediately stopping her stonefacing to get a VERY worried look on her face. Memories of the last time she'd released against her sparring partner in her mind. She'd had to take the poor girl to squad four herself. She cleared her throat, and admittedly, they had medics on standby. They were being watched after all. But even so Shizuyoko was quick to raise her hands. "Whoa there. I mean.... you remember the last time we used swords right? I'd rather not... you know. Have to cut you up like that again." She murmured sheepishly, taking a step back and letting her entire body relax.

Yetsuna was doing a terrible job of tiring Shizuyoko out if that was her plan. With no attacks coming in, it was easy for Shizuyoko to just take a moment to relax. Not only that but Shizuyoko was able to just use her raw speed to blitz the woman while Yetsuna would HAVE to use stepping techniques. And at her level there were only so many steps that the poor girl could use in rapid succession. Not to mention the fact that repeated shunpos would tire Yetsuna out a helluva lot faster than Shizuyoko just moving quickly would.

All these thoughts passed through her head. But what was MOST concerning was she didnt know what Yetsuna's shikai was. And sure, she doubted it was something unsuitable for spars, but the fact of the matter was that she really didn't want to have to seriously injure Yetsuna. "If you want to include zanpaku'to I don't have a problem with that." She noted with a soft little shrug, making her way over to her two swords and casually pulling them from the ground, glancing over her shoulder to eye the woman as she lightly popped her hip to the side, giving Yetsuna a very lovely profile to look at. "But I'm going to insist that you let me stay with you until your wounds are healed if we do." She noted softly, completely serious.

[Yetsuna Yishnir]

Yetsuna laughed warm heartedly at her friend concern. She remembered the injuries well, they were fairly brutal after all, but injuries weren't something that she was overly worried about. She often trained with others using their real weapons, she felt it provided a better training experience and also made sure that they tried their hardest unless they wanted to bleed. "I'm not too concerned about it," she answered casually, "besides, that was then, it gonna take more then that to take me down now," she grinned devilishly.

It had been a long time since the two of them had last fought and if there was one thing Yetsuna had learned to do doing their time it was take a hell of a hit and keep rolling. Even by shinigami standards she was a tough cookie, and that was without her release, with it it took some really strong hits to knock her out of a fight. "Besides," she teased, "I don't think you'll be able to cut me like last time." It wasn't too hard for either of them to tell that she was referring to the way the sheer amount of energy Yetsuna gave off dwarfed Shizuyoko's.

There was almost a weird dilemma to their fight now, at least in her mind. If blades were used the fight would immediately shift into her favor, without them the odds were overwhelmingly in the blondes. Each of the girls could have just have choose their preferred method of combat, but Yetsuna being the only one with a weapon would have made her feel kid of bad for trying to slice up her friend while all she did was grapple, plus that left the odds still heavy in her favor. Then she thought of a fairly simple solution that would let them both use their own strengths in the best way.

"If were going to include zanpaktous why don't we just skip to the fun part and use our releases?" she said with a friendly challenge. Assuming the blonde accepted the condition the green haired woman would smile, "Alrighty then! Let's get started!" As she spoke she took her blade from it sheath and brought it out in front of her horizontally gripping and end in each hand, "Sunder!" With a jerk of her wrists the shinigami seemingly broke her blade in two, but Shizu likely wouldn't be fooled and figure out it was the preface to her release.

With a quick motion downward she'd throw the two halves downward into the ground causing them to disappear as though they had gone into water instead of earth. After a moment the earth around the green haired woman would erupt and envelop her, then after a distinct crushing sound from the earth, her cocoon would crumble away into dust revealing her armor clad Yetsuna "Ishio." After a short pause Yetsuna would smile and say "Your turn." After the blonde used her release Yetsuna spoke once more, "By the way, you can watch over me if you want, but two things. First you have to beat me, second, if you do beat me, I expect a massage at some point." The last line was underscored with a flirty undertone and wink.

[Shizuyoko Toraumi]

Shizuyoko immediately frowned as she saw the woman release infront of her, folding her arms and huffing a little as she shook her head, immediately showing aversion as the woman seemed tobe dead set on the two of them really injuring eachother. She knew of course that she was a really bad matchup for Yetsuna, ESPECIALLY because of her abilities. But that didn't make it any more unpleasant that she would have to seriously injure the woman. She HATED the idea of doing serious damage, and when she saw that release, she INSTANTLY disliked it.

"NO! Look at that! The only place I could hit you is your face! I don't want to kill you!" She noted with a frown, very distressed as she saw how little she had to work with, immediately dropping both of her weapons and frowning as she folded her arms insistingly. She knew that she could probably shred through the armor, but that was a big maybe. And if she COULDN'T?! That was a big enormous problem. And she literally wouldn't be able to do anything without actually killing Yetsuna, which she did not want to do.

"I understand your enthusiasm, but I LITERALLY Can't hit you. What sort of fight is that going to be?" She asked, tapping her foot as she leered at the woman, stepping forward and immediately putting her arms around Yetsuna's shoulders, looking her in the eyes and showing just how unpleased she was with the idea. "If it means that much to you, I'll lower my speed while we fight. But just no shikai okay?" She huffed, very clear as she leaned in and gently she would press her forehead against Yetsuna's, looking pleadingly into the woman's eyes as she moved just a bit closer, lightly pressing herself to the woman's armored form.

Was she cheating to try to get her way? Maybe a little. This sort of bodily contact was perhaps a little cheap, but she really dd not like her limited options on fighting Yetsuna. This took a lot of the skill out of the fight, it would essentially trying to cut down Yetsuna's armor bit by bit, IF that were even possible. some releases were very easy to repair. And by the looks, Shizu had a bad feeling that Yetsuna could probably repair her armor. Which meant that cutting into it might not be a viable option for this sort of engagement.

"And if you win without using shikai, I'll give you a reward." She added in, holding up a finger to emphesize the singularity of the offer. "JUSt one Favor. You can't save it up, it has to be used up by the end of the day. But whatever you want, any facor you might ask of me." She noted with a nod. "But if you insist we use release then that offer goes out the window. Got it?" She insisted, clearly not going to budge on this.

[Yetsuna Yishnir]

Yetsuna used her release and much to her surprise, Shizu didn't like it. It wasn't the release itself she seemed to have an issue with, but more the fact that it gave her armor which covered her fully except her head, which would make her much harder to actually damage, and those points that were exposed were mostly immediately lethal, which she couldn't go for. The blonde crossed her arms with a huff which made Yetsuna chuckle, if for no other reason she just found the action cute, "Haha, it's not as perfect as you'd think, but..." she trailed off as Shizu began to close in again.

The blonde wrapped her arms around Yetsuna's shoulders before continuing to speak and offering up two deals. The first was to limit her speed, thing that was going to make Yetsuna lose the immediately, and a favor if she won. The green haired woman felt some blood rush to her cheeks as several thoughts for the favor ran to her mind, most, if not all of them fairly intimate in nature and she found herself wondering if that was actually Shizu's end game by offering her up the deal.

Yetsuna wrapped her arms around her friend's waist again before speaking, "Sure," she said as her shikai began to break down into sand and reforming into her sword which appeared stuck in the ground next to her. "Just to make sure though, it's any favor?" she asked with nice touch of flirty overtone, trying to make one of the possible options for her choice about as obvious as she could without either saying it directly or coming across creepy.

After her response she had a small idea, it didn't matter to her much, but it would likely make Shizu happy, "Actually, why do we just do no weapons?" she'd ask remembering how the blonde had looked when she realized that Yetsuna had grabbed her blade again. Yetsuna had actually been kind of surprised at just how reluctant her friend had been about doing any kid of damage to her, granted Yetsuna didn't wanna hurt Shizu much either, but still this was the first person she had trained with how seemed really worried about hurting her, even with squad 4 on standby.

It was actually kinda cute just how concerned and stubborn she was about trying not to hurt her. It also kind of made her feel bad because she wouldn't have thought too much about giving Shizu a few cuts as a result of a training match.....

[Shizuyoko Toraumi]

Shizuyoko quirked a brow at that, peering a little incredulously at Yetsuna. She had limited it to one evening to make sure that it didn't bite her in the ass. She knew that favors could be exploited. If ever therewas a time when it came that she would need to execute Yetsuna, she didn't want the girl weaseling out of it because of a spar. When Yetsuna said 'anything' she furrowed her brow, wondering if the woman was planning to commit some sort of treason during the window of opportunity. But she didn't say anything, simply looking at the woman weird, clearly not getting the sexual connotation.

"sounds good to me. No weapons.... works..." she paused, thinking things over, her brows furrowing as she went over her options. With a slight move forward she watched yetsuna carfully, waiting for the woman to reseal her shikai. Moving at a lower speed would be easy for her. After all she STILL had access to a considerably stronger technique pool. So likely it would come down to the two of them wrestling. Which she supposed wasn't all that bad. She eyed Yetsuna up and down.

Her major advantage was her tails. Gently flexing those long lengths of scales, she took a bit to actually consider how to approach. Likely she could just go for some sort of chokehold. Once she had a grip, naturally their hands would link up, and once Yetsuna's hands were taken care of she could use her tails to win from there. Easy right? The only thing was that Yetsuna probably also had access to kido. Meaning that she would have to be on guard for that. She considered explicitly telling Yetsuna that, but now that she thought about it, she wasnt sure IF Yetsuna used kido. she certainly hadn't been using any thus far.

She prepared herself. Even if she was slowing down how fast she was moving, she still had a considerable base speed advantage, her body was able to react much more quickly, and her own reflexes were better in terms of following speeds similar to her own. She would be able to react much better thant Yetsuna did. The trick would be to make sure that she used this to her advantage, and didn't accidentally smack the woman. She could coat her limbs in reiatsu to avoid cutback, but that would be a bit exhausting. Avoidance would be the far easier option.