Welcome to Gaia! ::

Shiro listened intently to Neko's statements. As they entered the clearing, Shiro turned to face Neko, who had turned to face him.

"Any questions? Just one. And you're most likely going to answer it. What are we doing here?"

Shiro smiled a bit. He was beginning to see the picture. He caught the headband and looked at it in his hand.

"So you want me to fight you, and do it well enough that you have to rely on a bloodburn to defeat me?"

Not quite. If I went into a bloodburn against you, I'd most likely kill you. I'm going to be primarily defensive, and you have to push me over the edge, in a sense. Do enough damage and cause enough confusion for instincts to kick in. That headband you're holding has Youkai power limiters in it. They react to a certain signature in my chakra and supress the energy, stopping my bloodburn and reversing any transformations. You are to use that against me when your life becomes endangered.

-=Neko closed his eyes and sighed, grimacing as he spread his weight onto his broken leg=-

Do you understand?

((But... but... but.... his makes no sense! On moment, we are in the forest, then the next moment you're at the sojo lecturing Shiro!!! How does that happen???))

Shiro nodded.

"I understand. Let's begin."

Shiro started off with a simple technique. He disappeared into teh forest and began lauching barrage after abrrage of kunai, in no specific pattern.

-=Neko chuckled, his eyes opened wide as Shiro got started quickly. BNeko's aura was already steadily flowing. He shoved his cane into the ground and a dome of thick earth shot up around him, concealing him, and soaking in the kunai as odd noises eminated from the mound in the center of the field=-

((It's only on the last page, but a ways out in the forest))

-=The attacks hit nothing, as Neko was no longer in the dome, whch soon collapsed around shiro, the softening dirt falling onto him, along with the kunai he had fired. Neko was nowhere to be found, and his chakra was difficult to sense=-

Shiro concentrated his Cahkra in between his ahnds as teh dome collapsed. He then let the Cahkra loose, forming an expanding dome of Chakra that pushed the dirt back, causing it to fall backwards. Shiro looked around the aream trying to sense Neko's presence. When nothing turned up, he simply shook his head and closed his eyes.

You think he'd realize by now....

As he opened his eyes, his eyes were no longer white, but black with blue Irii. His Chounouryoku Eye was now active, the psychic powers allowing Shiro to pinpoint Neko's location. He supressed his Chakra, and began moving towards Neko, but circling around Neko's location to perform a stealth attack.