Welcome to Gaia! ::

::With a loud sigh, Medixia gets up when she feels her reiatsu is sufficiently recovered. At least she feels like she's back near one-hundred percent. As she takes a few steps forward, she's already begun scanning the book shelves. She's not satisfied with just learning chiyu. She wants to learn exactly how they work. Her idea is to become most proficient with these, maybe even develop a few of her own. When she comes to a rather thick book with a promising title and a symbol she's never seen before, she picks it up and turns to the preface.::

Hmm...?

::With a questioning sigh, she turns around, tucks a foot underneath her and 'trips' herself into a seated position, back against the bookcase. It might not have looked like the most elegant thing to do, but she's quite efficient at quickly seating herself. She does practice a lot while out and about rooting for whatever necessary to make medicines. Unlike the others, she has a much more 'vital role' interest in chiyu. As she turns the pages, she learns what the symbol stands for. It's a symbol that has come to be known as the universal symbol of medicine. She guesses it came after the time of witch doctors, shamans, and other such healers. With a smile, she wonders if maybe the Kusinagi name isn't so famous anymore.::

::Ignoring that thought, she continues to read. What she notices about chiyu is not only how different they are from hadou but how much more effective they are with a deep understanding of reiatsu. She rubs her head. She doesn't have much of a sense for reiatsu, as it's described in the book, right now. She's hoping that's something she'll develop. With a sigh, she continues. The first chiyu, of course, is rather simple. Absentmindedly, she speaks aloud.::

...converts reiatsu to chi? I wonder if that weakens the overall effect?

[1/10]

::Medixia ends up nodding her head a lot. As she reads the text, it covers the proper placement of the hands on the target and how to gather the reiatsu necessary. The whole conversion thing doesn't make a lot of sense right now, but she's sure it will later on. She turns several pages just reading on proper use. She likes that it's going over all this before the chant, but she thought she would have read that by now. With a shake of her head and a sigh, she ignores that. She, instead, concentrates on letting her reiatsu flow, much more serenely, to her open palms. Unlike Ranboukaze, there is no need to gather outside elements. This felt a lot more natural.::

[3/10]

::When she can't remember the words, Medixia scrunches her face. This is going to be a long day at this rate... With a sigh, she opens her eyes and refocuses on the page with the chant. She knows she has to get this down or there's no way she can say she learned it. Proving she did might be another thing... She's rather not prove the point; though, she was willing to joke about it. Great whales, white and gray, spurting water of the living from holes of mammals, healing the scalding words of the wise. Chiyu no Ichi, Ichiban a Chiyu. After reading it, she licks her lips. Then she reads it again. She wants to be able to recite the words no matter the situation. That would mean taking them to heart and knowing they can flow no matter what. She knows that could be a lot harder than one might think... She focuses, on those words and those words only.::

[5/10]

Soon, after a short lived nap, Rei awakened just in time to here the announcement, which is actually what brought him to life. He scrambled to his feet, he had regained a good chunk of himself. Suddenly, before Rei could reach for his Zanpaktou, it simply materialized into his grip, which startled him.

"A FIGHT! FINALLY! Go Rei...I want to see some blood..."

Rei scrambled again going for the doorway, leaping and bounding off of chairs and tables on the way out so he could make a bee-line for the exit.

[Hp rcovered to: 30]
[Rp recovered to:13]

Hikari sighs. She knows one thing. When a taichou says to get moving; you get moving. She hops up, satisfied that she has Ranboukaze, Sai, and Ichiban a Chiyu learned. The latter two she can master in the field if necessary. The former is more important to have learned. With a quick tug on Haruko... "Let's go, Poku-chan!" She quickly skips ahead, leaving her to catch up, before waving at Shunketsu. "It's time to go, Hentai-san!" ...and she disappears out the library door. She rushes, much like a child would, down the hallways of the Academy. She's not necessarily in a hurry. She just has energy to burn.

As Masaru stood near the teacher, he watched the black butterfly slowly drift and land on her shoulder. He was intrigued by it, and also about how the teacher seemed to be listening to it. As he came to the conclusion that it must be some form of shinigami communication, he was taken back abit as she slid off of the desk and removed her pink haori. He listened carefully to her message, since it was hard not to, and acknowledged by standing at attention.

"Yes ma'am."

He proceeded after her out the door with the other students, holding his zanpakuto to his hip with his left hand as to keep it from falling out of his obi. He hadn't been in the academy long, and he was already going to become a shinigami. But he feared his lack of knowledge and training would be the death of him in this situation that Seireitei was in. If the Gotei 13 is delving into academy students for soldiers, then there must be something big, and he didn't know what. He had a bad feeling he'd find out sooner than later.

::Medixia listens to the seemingly old man's speech. She only has one thing to do and say. She grasps her right hair bun in the same hand and rubs it against her head as...::

Gah...

::This is not what she wanted to hear. She's not only one of the weakest students they have available. He's not even confident the taichou can protect any given one of them. With no real hesitation, she raises the hand that was grasping her bun and speaks up.::

If you don't terribly mind, I think I'll be best with medicine and support. I can't use any chiyu, but I can make one mean herbal remedy.

::Actually, she can make quite a few. She has a satchel full of the various remedies she's concocted. She even has a few concoctions she can rub onto her zanpakutou edge in order to paralyze or intoxicate an enemy, or just some random target to treat them.::