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Karite let his robes hang around his waist as he walked to the center of the classroom ring. He left the sword where it stood in the ground. It was dark but it seemed like a light shown over them.

"Emptiness...if you live in ny heart and that is where we are, then why is it I still feel pain if I am so empty inside?" Karite asked spreading his legs into a blanced postion.

Emptiness looked at the runt and smiled. He slide across the ring clanging his rings together before thrusting his fist into karites chest.

[13]

Tsai had now backed himself up to the stairs of the temple now. Hatred was overpowering him. He needed a plan and an opening. Hatred swung down his scimtar with both his hands. "There! Tsai squinted his eyes as he moved to the side dodging the scimtar and forcing it to be wedged into the stairs. He jumped over Hatred, position himself behind his opponent and then stabbed forward, Hatred's eyes widened as if the attack had surprised or scared him. What was he so afraid of? All Tsai did was stab him in lower back. The wound began healing immediately as Tsai withdrew it back began hopping back into the temple. The stairs was a bad place to be.

"Could there be something inside of Hatred? A weakness. That must be it, why would he be so shocked after one stab when he could take swing after swing of slashes?" Tsai had figured something out but where should he stab next time? He was also running out of oppurtunities. His zampakuto wouldn't last another series of attacks from Hatred's scimtar.

In a few seconds, Hatred finished up regenerating his wound in his back and turned around. "Sorry about that, I thought you hit a bone," he was obviously trying to protect something inside of him that would lead to his demise.

[72]

Hatred was now playing defensively as well as offensively. He wasn't as more opened now after the last attack. For now, all his attacks were two handed to make sure that he left no openings for his opponent to use to attack. Tsai was constantly searching as he parried the attacks that came his way. Eventually, Tsai took a few hits to his arms and legs. But with his left arm he could heal right on the spot thanks to it being a gingishu. A silver quincy-like arm that had the power to regenerate much like that of a hollow.

Tsai and Hatred were both heavily exhausted after several dozen minutes into their battle. Tsai for obvious reasons and Hatred because of his concentration of not exposing himself.

"I know your trying to hide something inside of you Hatred, that's your weakness, you don't want me to find it," Tsai commented as he continued to breath. "Nonsense, I have nothing to...hide!" Hatred replied striking forward with both hands on his scimtar-like zampakuto. Tsai skipped to the side and dodged the attack. To his luck, the zampakuto wedged into the ground.

"An opening!"

[73]

If Tsai was quick enough, he could possible hit the pressure points on Hatred's body enough to cause the heart to cease function and then Hatred would die. An easy plan to think up but executing it would require alot more. Hatred came at Tsai first with his zampakuto on his shoulder, he slung it over hoping to hit Tsai but Tsai was too quick. He jumped over Hatred and landed on the other side. He quickly formed the phoenix fist with his hand and hit the various pressure points on the back and then moving to the side.

Hatred was picking up on what Tsai was doing and shifted his zampakuto the wider side to block the pressure points from being hit. But Tsai was well prepared, he twirled over to Hatred's other side and hit the pressure points that were there enough to bruise them. A few more and he was all set.

He moved to the front of Hatred and punched directly on the point that needed to be punched for the technique to be executed. It was the late one. Hatred fell to the ground. But he wasn't dead. He didn't fade into ash. His reiatsu still remained. Was he dead?

"Psyche!" Hatred got up and laughed before shunpoing a safe distance away from Tsai. "You don't use your logic much do you Tsai? Hatred has no room in his body for a heart!" he laughed. Tsai had no more plans left, no clues, just fight Hatred head on with Hakuda, that was all.

[75]

After a while Banriyu finally noticed that the sounds of battle began to dissipate. He sat up and looked around noticing that everyone was finishing up their spars while others where meditating. It didn't strike him as odd because Banriyu knew exactly what they were doing. They were speaking to their zanpakutou's soul. He hadn't spoken to his in quite some time now. And he thought that he should otherwise she would be furious.

(( ^_^; Well. She's down to 5 HP. At least I get to have fun making her look crazy.))

[Dodge Roll: 16]
[Attack Roll: 8]

((Her? Calm down? O_o ))

Right in her ear. The voice seems so much clearer. "See? He doesn't even consider you a worthy opponent? He's toying with you. He knows he's bigger than you." The arm on her wrist. Is it Rikatsu's or somebody else's? She screams. It's not fear, but her reiatsu seems to respond to her emotions. She doesn't have the control necessary to do anything with it, so it fluctuates wildly. She forces herself away from his grasp before throwing several weak fists at him which could barely be considered punches. "Leave me alone..." She whispers. "How? I'm you. I'm a part of you, inseparable. You know that. You're smarter than that. You're just weak. You have a small body. You have a weak body." "I'm not weak." Barely audible. "Aw. Is that true? He's bigger. He's beating you. I bet you can't even take one more, tiny little hit. Your lungs are burning." "No they aren't." "Denial. If you had your sword, this would be easy. Wouldn't it?"