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Kiko gritted her teeth and looked at the ground as the memories began to resurfice, "Fine... But hurry up, the faster that it's over with the fast we can continue training... and the faster I can take a bath." She added the last part under her breath. She felt as if she were be forced to give in... again, like that time.

Kiko moved her fingers of her perviously limp arm before her wrist, then elbow, and finally moving her entire arm at the shoulder. She stood up and brushed herself off turning slightly away from Soren before turning her head back, meeting his eyes with a judging look, "Maybe he saw something in Tsukiko and me... Just as I did. I may not be able to see, but I sensed something in you that interested me; something that I thought I would be able to relate with. But I guess my judgement isn't always right, I really do have a lot to learn."

"Understood," Kiko turned away from Soren and began to walk silently away; she had sensed what was in his gaze and she thought that was enough. She stopped suddenly, just short of reaching a row of trees, "I trust you with Tsukiko's life." She paused for a moment longer before turning to meet Soren's gaze again, "Sensei." With that she walked into the trees so that she could go wash off in the nearest water source.

Kiko continued to walk, carefully. Once and a while her hand would rest on the bark of a tree and she would toe the ground were she was uncertain. She may have been able to sense what things were and where the were, it didn't mean that she was able to tell if some dirt was a ditch or not; to her, all she would be able to sense was dirt. She sensed movement and the sound of water, it was only a creek but it would do. She washed her face and her arms and sat in a patch of sun so that she could dry off faster. Weird...

Kei smiled slightly, This just keeps getting better and better. "If you both keep teaching them how to grow up you'll put me out of the job, Soren."

"You've done more for them then you think you have," Kei purred but his smirk soon turned into a frown. "Beside her father, fiance, his two elder brothers, Kaoru and me... You two have been the only two males that she's really gotten to know outside the village, even while she grew up the only males she would let touch her were her father, Kaoru, and me. She wouldn't think twice about running from a man that she sensed something bad in."

Kei stood up and stretched a few of his joints popping, "You might be right," he looked up at Soren. "But if you are 'not nice', as you say you are don't you believe that you would have killed Tsukiko by now; either because of her or Kiko? And if you were not nice, why would your brother have gone to such lengths to kill Tsukiko fiance in private? To keep it from her? Let me tell you something, I wanted to kill him. His own brothers wanted to kill him. He wasn't a nice person, and he was torturing Tsukiko...." Kei paused, "Now tell me, are you as cruel as you say you are?"

Time to head back, Kiko stood up and began to slowly make her way back to where she sensed Soren, Doren, and Kei.

Kei looked up at the sky and shuddered moving closer to the tree's trunk, "I hate water."

"Of course you hate water, you almost lost Kaoru to a flood," Kiko walked up beside then and pulled off her cloak, "The hag is telling me to give this to you." She dropped it on top of the cat before looking down at Soren and she smirked, "Well, sensei? What are you going to teach me?"

Mari turned her head to reply, but he was gone before she had a chance to say anything. She watched the training session intently, attempting to memorize the style.

"Your brother Doren told me he'd be here. He agreed to teach me." She said, absently looking at the cat.