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Amid one of the several twisting pathways surrounded by walls that make up the seireitei. This particular one was in the 10th squads designated area. The peaked brown roofs provided some contrast between the white walls and ground. It was late at night and a cresent moon hung over head.

(appears like the streets in the sereitei of when ichigo and company first arrive.)

Maikeru had been wanting to spar with someone with a lightning zanpakutou for awhile now, he was curious how it would interact with his own metallic Shikai.

So he'd sent a message out on the spiritual wavelengths(Yelled loudly in the barracks) and he met Kyo. Today they would be...ohhhh how the French say, Formalizing their relationship.

"Here ya go." Maikeru tossed a snack pack of Cherry Jello at Kyo. Right after it left his hands he followed up with a small spoon then dropped off the roof lightly landing on the balls of his feet silently.

He looked the shinigami up and down not at all taken aback by his odd appearance. He had been in the soul society since he was an infant, this was nothing new to him.

"So how do you wanna do this?"

Maikeru saw him gobble down the snack and grinned, "Good ain't it?"

Maikeru stretched his arms out in front of him and popped each of his knuckles then stretched up and to the sides popping his shoulders and neck.

He yawned, "Well, you go ahead and go first, I heard you have your Shikai so pull that out anytime you like, it doesn't matter to me."

He rubbed his eyes and mumbled to himself, "Wow, I'm usually not this tired, what the heck is wrong with me? Eh, I'll be fine once the adrenaline kicks in."

Maikeru drew the long knife hanging behind his neck and ran it along Kyo's blade. Sparks flew as Maikeru moved forward letting the bolt of lightning strike to pavement below leaving a quickly darkening scorch mark. Maikeru kept moving forwards towards Kyo's feet and grabbed them. Throwing them up so he would end up in a flip instead of landing as he had originally planned.

As a final gambit Maikeru turned and skipped back a few paces.

"Now thats what I'm talking about." Maikeru flung the knife at Kyo just as he would land and drew the two heavy daggers from behind his back.

"Oh crap, I forgot, sorry. You should know something, I barely passed my katana combat classes at the academy. But I learned ages ago how to fight with knives. So keep me at sword length and you'll be fine, let me get inside and I could reasonably slice you to ribbons. By the way, not my Shikai."

Maikeru calmly strode toward the shinigami spinning the two heavy daggers in his palms. When he was within striking distance he spun. Slashing with both daggers and spinning into the air. In the end both legs, and each dagger, would have each had a turn at striking towards his sparring partner.

Maikeru caught a glimpse of the roll of bandages as Kyo threw them...what use could they be? Maikeru continued with his strikes and learned when as it wrapped the bandage tightened and tripped him up slightly.

To avoid any further mishaps Maikeru quickly set the tip of a dagger under the edge of the bandage and sliced. Ribbon like pieces floated off in the breeze. "Not bad."

Maikeru crouched down, one leg extended out front towards Kyo along with his dominant knife-hand, while the other leg was bent heavily underneath and his other dagger wielding hand was out behind. Low to the ground as he was this would be a very horrible sword stance, but dual-wielding short blades had it's advantages. This was designed for explosively strong and fast counterstrikes, the power drawn from the legs and back, while speed and dexterity came from the wrist.

Maikeru laughed loudly and joyfully, he was enjoying this greatly.

"YOU! My friend! Are fun!" Still holding the daggers he pointed his hand at the ground, "I love this trick," He jumped slightly, "Hado Number One, Sho!" Maikeru flew high into the air, well over the tops of the walls they were surrounded with.

"I also love this one! My hallucination the other day showed it to me, it's like yours. Hado Number Four, Byakurai!" The energy gathered in Maikeru's hand then channeled out through his left hand dagger. The bolt shot into the ground right by Kyo's dustcloud, not even trying to hinder his opponent. A dust cloud rose, smaller, perhaps, than Kyo's, but small static arcs also shot between the dust motes.

He alighted lightly on one of the heavily angled roofs. "Cool hunh?" He let himself fall off the edge of the tiles, his body tilting till it was parallell with the ground, and with a shove of his legs he shot towards Kyo, one of his daggers held out in front. The other held back ready for a secondary strike.

((lol sorry if i did a bit much, but I couldn't resist the double dust cloud thing since it jst happened to me earlier, intterrupt any time if you like, or take advantage of the fact Maikeru can't maneuver in the air, your choice.))

(Why thank you, not to shabby yourself lol))

Maikeru's eyes widened in surprise, not many people had ever met him mid-air. He saw Kyo grab for his sheath and grinned, clever, unless he fought with it regularly it could provide some small risk, but it would lessen the stress on his sword hand if he could wield it effectively.

Maikeru shot towards Kyo and adjusted his strike to not score a hit, but rather skim along Kyo's blade and redirect his own path to roll along the ground instead of striking the opposite wall. His off-hand dagger whipped towards Kyo to make sure his sheath was occupied with something other than pummeling Maikeru.

Right against the wall he resumed the low stance from before, hoping to get a chance to use it this time, a small modification of his back foot being braced slightly against the wall would provide more forward thrust we he decided to strike.