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 Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:59 pm
Nico thursted Kurai's neck. "Cocky little-" She swung Kurai, by the neck, behind her. Nico threw her zanpactu-to in the air and shunpoed towards Kurai. Nico laid her hand behind and caught Kurogihen.
Nico couldn't but flash a smile as she gracefully swung and thrusted her blade at Kurai.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:14 pm
Kurai's head cracked against the black bamboo a second time, filling her senses with disorienting vibration. In the next instant, Nico had pulled her away from the tree, swinging her into open space and releasing her. As she flew back, she vaguely sensed Nico's shunpo, but the confusion of vibrations marred her senses, and she only had a brief instant to turn.
Nico's blade was singing to her. The clear notes danced mockingly in her skull as she registered the sword's angle and direction. Too late to react. The blade burried itself in Kurai's chest.
She stumbled away from Nico, holding the blade that impaled her. Her hands slipped on the blood that flowed around the edges of the blade. Kurai sank involuntarily to her knees. Still, her muted gold eyes flashed angrily.
"Still..not as fast...as Yoruichi," She said, choking on a cascade of blood that welled up in her throat.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:27 pm
Nico frowned and pulled Kurogihen from Kurai's stomach. "Dying is not on the agenda." Nico slid Kurogihen back into her shealth and laid Kurai on the ground.
Nico placed her hand over Kurai's wound and took a deep breath. A red mist flew into the air as the blood evaporated. Skin slowly slid under Nico's hand. "This is where squad four comes in handy." The red mist slowly dispeared and Nico rose her hand of Kurai's stomach.
A new patch of skin now covered Kurai's wound, and the pain should have vanished.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:33 pm
"I had no intention of dying," Kurai rejoined, but her tone was weak. Healings always made her tired. "I was just planning....my next...attack.."
Her eyelids fluttered weakly, and the bruises on the back of her head throbbed hotly while blood flowed sluggishly from the various cuts she had received from Nico's hailstorm of strikes.
Kurai never reliquished her grip on her zanpaku-to, though her limbs felt heavy and limp.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:28 pm
Nico sighed and lifted Kurai into her arms. "I will take you to my quaters so you can rest." She grunted and began walking.
Have you gone, dare I say it, soft on a student! Impossible! Kurogihen's voice echoed threw her head. Although Nico hated Kurogihen, she was right, Nico was soft on Kuraime. It felt wrong to her, but after all, she needs someone to take on her teachings and Kuraime was right for the job.
Nico got tired of taking "slow" on the movement so she held onto Kuraime tighter. "Hang on," She erged Kurai. Nico disapeared in the forest and reappeared into her private quaters.
Nico walked over to her bed and laid Kuraime on it. The covers were still rufled at the end of the bed. So Nico, naturally, pulled the covers on Kuraime.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:51 pm
"M'kay," Kurai mumbled, half asleep already. She was so out of it she barely noticed the changed of scenery. Her eyelids felt leaden as Nico laid her gently on the bed.
She fell asleep in seconds, one hand moving slowly to touch the black ribbon that encircled her throat. "...Yoru...ichi," She spoke softly in her sleep, dreaming deeply.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:09 pm
Nico forced out a motherly smile and walked to her small kitchen.
Nico took out a small bamboo glass from her bottom cupboard. She walked over to a small foset between her bread box and frozen meat box. She turned a small knob and water trickled from the bamboo foset. She put the glass under it, and it slowly filled up.
She walked to a small bedside table and laid the bamboo glass on it. "Sleep well," Nico whispered as she took a chair next to Kuraime.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:13 pm
Rhia ghosted through Nico's window, a far easier entrance than the disaster that was her office. She caught sight of Nico sitting by the bed where a young, dark-skinned girl slept deeply. The look on Nico's face was surprisingly tender. If the girl had not been sleeping, Rhia would have laughed aloud.
As it was, she moved to Nico's side without a sound, appraising the girl that commandeered her vice's bed. "This isn't like you, Nico," She teased softly. "Who's the little chica?"
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:25 pm
Nico looked up at Rhia and grinned. "Kuraime, Yuroichi's sister. I can't help but try to be mothery to her, like you were to me. Kinda." Nico giggled and puched Rhia's arm. "She wants to be the next 'God of Flash'." Noc explained to Rhia. "But I don't think she can, she is blind, she needs to have a good sence of whats around her."
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:32 pm
"Cool... real royalty... Didn't know Yoruichi had a sister," She took in Kuraime's appearance, noting her startling appearance. "The little thing looks just like her, doesn't she... She's blind, you say? How does she fight?"
Kuraime. Dark Eyes, her name meant. Rhia wondered what her story could be. If Kuraime didn't look exactly like her fabled sister, she would have doubted the story.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:38 pm
Nico rubbed her head and her smile cooled down to a small frown. "She sences the reiastu around her. She can see it."
Nico still couldn't understand Kuraime's strange gift. It might, actaully, make her own of strongest people she knows.
"She can see right through my Gihen (Deception) attack. She is... Amazing."
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:46 pm
"A reiatsu sense...is it better than mine? It's gotta be...you got me with your Deception, but she saw through it?" She whistled softly, good-naturedly jealous of the blind girl's ability. Glancing at Kuraime's wakizashi, she wondered aloud, "What could her release be? Did you see it, Nico?"
Something else was taking shape in the back of Rhia's mind. As if a lightbulb was struggling to turn on. She tried to leave the sensation alone, hoping the connection would snap together if she let her mind wander a bit.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:51 pm
Nico sighed, "I haven't seen her release yet. I tried to get it out of her when I stabbed her, she should have blocked it with her shikia." Nico rubbed her eyes and shrugged. "She is... Specail. I will train her, to be good. I will use your lessons and transform her into the greatest shinigami. Ever."
As always, Nico was hopeful with Kuraime. She could really work with her. With Rhia's lesson plans, Nico's strength, and a good sence of shikia thi girl could unluck door Nico had never dreamed of.
Summed up, Nico had a lot of work to be done.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:00 pm
Rhia nodded. She'd never seen Nico so fired up over another student. It was fun to imagine she herself had felt the same way when she trained Nico. And now, here they were. Captain and Vice.
That's when it struck her. "Wait..if...if Yoruichi was banished--and this girl really is her sister...That makes Kuraime Shihouin...the Tenshi Heisoban..."
She finished the phrase slowly, thinking. To her knowledge, Yomiko Shihouin had shouldered the title. She wondered if Kuraime had true claim to the title. It would be a heavy burden for a youngling.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:03 pm
((hey ^^ the chickadee put two and two together...Yomiko offered me the title, but she and I agreed that she would hang on to the position 'til Kurai was ready))
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