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Username:
-- The_Epic_Muffin
Character name:
-- Alder
Rank:
-- 8th Seat of Squad Thirteen
Kido you wish to learn (#):
Bakudo:
-- Kyokko (曲光, Curved Light) Number 26.
-- Shitotsu Sansen (嘴突三閃, Beak-Piercing Triple Beam) Number 30.
-- Enkosen (円閘扇, Arc Shield) Number 39.
Hadou:
-- Tsuzuri Raiden (製本電, Bound Lightning) Number 11.
-- Shakkahō (赤火砲, Shot of Red Fire) Number 31.
-- Ōkasen (黄火閃, Yellow Fire Flash) Number 32.
-- Sōkatsui (蒼火墜, Blue Fire, Crash Down) Number 33.

Are you a member of squad nine?:
-- No.
Have you already tried to go through your own squad?:
Anyone who could/would teach Kidou in my squad is inactive. Not many members in Squad 13 actually know Kidou past the basic ones, and MockaDash most certainly doesn't have time to train me; his last post in this guild was June eighth, so any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

The soft breeze gave a sweet stimulus to Genji Kazemaru's nervous frame. This was his first time Kido training someone since he had moved up to the position of captain of Squad 9, the first squad he entered when he became a Shinigami long ago. He thought of the sandals he had to fill. All of the past captains of Squad 9 had been amazingly skilled and powerful Shinigame, who were well-known and respected by many. And then... there was Genji. A thought that continuously haunted his mind at any time of the day, at any location, at any feeling, reared into the front of head of his head again. Am I worthy of being here? Genji stopped cold and looked up at the sky. In the clouds, he could see the faces of the captains that came before him. Those huge, puffy, gray faces looked down upon him with the winds making the them shake from side to side. Genji looked down at the ground and closed his eyes.

"Oh snap! Genji realized quickly that he was late to his Kido training session. He broke into Shunpo to make up the time he had wasted being hard on himself. This was so embarrassing. Not only was it his first time training someone since his promotion, it was with someone he didn't know, and he was already making a poor impression with his tardiness. He saw Adler head and ended the Shunpo to make a cool and calm appearance to look more collected and capable to his new student.

"Good morning, Alder-san," Genji said with a smile. "I am Genji Kazemaru, Captain of Squad 9 and your Kido instructor for the day. It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance." Genji bowed.

((It's fine. I understand. smile ))

Genji was a little disappointed by the rush Alder was in to learn the Kido he had requested. Of course, he was a little worried that Alder would be applying that rush into his training, something that would make learning those Kido even more frustrating for him and actually be counter-productive. Hopefully, that wouldn't be the case, and Alder would take his time to concentrate on the spell and ignore conversation, which Genji was a little sad about since he liked to get to know his students and develop a friendship with them. Also, Genji wanted to teach Alder something more than just Kido, but that required getting to know him. Maybe, he could squeeze it into the training.

Genji took out his clipboard with his notes from his backpack along with a pen. "Let me see..." Genji said, looking over the forms. "You are from Squad 13. I don't believe that I have been around Squad 13 before, so I don't know much about it aside from the captain being a bit reclusive. I've never met him. Goodness." Genji blushed a little and moved his right hand to his cheek to hide it a little. "I'm a captain, and look at what I know. This is so embarrassing." To move the rug over that blemish, Genji went back to his notes. "You have your work cut out for you today. I do not know much about your ability, so I'll start slow today with Hado #11, which I usually start sessions with since it is pretty easy to learn and a good warm-up."

Genji reached over and grabbed his backpack, which contained some materials for the training session. From within the fabric bowels, Genji pulled out a teddy bear that wore a long string around its waist. Genji stared at it with a sad expression. "You know, when I learned Hado #11, we practiced on live rabbits. Can you believe that? I was beside myself. I can tell you that I was queasy for the rest of that training session. Luckily, I found a less disturbing way to teach this spell, but I'm still not sure that it won't tug the heart strings. Better than live rabbits though, wouldn't you say. Right then."

Genji stood up. The string was long enough for the bear to still be lying on the ground while Genji held the string up. "For this spell, you will learn to channel your reiatsu through an object. Keep your focus and make the reiatsu travel through the string and into the target. I'll demonstrate. Hado #11 Bound Lightning!"

The emerald green reiatsu that radiated around Genji's hand shout from Genji's hand through the string like electricity through power lines. The teddy bear convulsed violently when the electricity was fed into it. It exploded in a sudden burst of fluff.

"It's rather simple, Alder-san. If you need to try a couple of times to get it just right, I brought plenty of teddy bears for you to practice on. The workers at the store must think I'm off my trolley when they see me come into their story and stalk up on teddy bears." Genji laughed.

((2 posts please 3nodding ))

"I wonder if the reason I'm not performing the Kidou very well is because I'm not putting enough Reiatsu into the initial use...I've always been one to skimp out on putting enough energy into my attacks...." Alder said thoughtfully, recalling a previous spar with his captain, where a completely inadequate amount of Reiatsu in a single Byakurai had caused it to lose the speed and accuracy necessary to strike his captain. The Shinigami would have to break that tendency here and now if he wanted to perform these techniques the way they were meant to be performed. Once again, the Shinigami strolled over to the bag, picking up two bears this time. He'd made an error the first time; the bears were all the same color. Alder had thought himself interesting for pulling out a different colored bear....they were all the same! "Well.....time for my next attempt...." He muttered to himself. He seemed distracted, as if dwelling constantly on the usage and the application of the Kidou at hand. This was certainly a good trait, but he wouldn't be able to do this in the heat of battle, or he would be killed without much of a second chance from his foe. As soon as he set the bear on the ground, he moved back. This time, he didn't skimp out on Kidou, and put in the correct amount. This proved detrimental to the technique's success, and, once he had done so, chanted, "Hadou Number 11....Bound Lightning!" Now, the technique was successful; the current raced headstrong down the string, and the teddy bear exploded in a cloud of fluff much larger than Genji's. "Too much Reiatsu, but it worked....." Alder said, spitting chunks of fluff out of his mouth as he spoke.

(2/2)

(Doing them both in one post to save time.)

"Oh, I do think I know why boys like it more....those boys are nothing short of perverts." Alder said with a snicker as he recalled the thin film Genji had placed on his body. It would most certainly be more difficult to place a light film of reiatsu over one's body than to focus it for a different Kidou, that's for sure. However, he wasn't about to give up. His first attempt resulted in him only being able to make his left hand vanish. This was because his left hand was the hand he normally performed Kidou with, and was his more focused hand. He would need to overcome that barrier as well if he wanted to really learn these Kidou. Alder attempted to cover the rest of his body in the film, and with a slight bit of concentration, his arm was covered. Thankfully, the goal was within sight; Alder could and would do this. "You know...." Alder said with a chuckle, "I might just scare Hinata with this Bakudou....it'd be great to visit her in Squad Ten again." He said with a snicker as he pushed the reiatsu further, still trying fervently to get this.

(1/2)

(I might have to make the second post shorter...I'm running with about four minutes left.)

Alder concentrated harder now, as it seemed like the longer it went on, the more fatigued he got. The Kidou itself was a draining progress, and Alder was getting extremely tired. The invisibility was past his head, and covering his entire torso; just the legs left. Once he learned to spread the invisibility to his whole body, he would probably be able to do it on a moment's notice, because then, he would know how to summon it at a moment's notice. After a little while, he was cloaked in invisibility. Now, he released the whole thing, and tried it head on. "Bakudo Number 26.....Kyokko!" He suddenly turned invisible, and came back immediately by his own will. "That was fun!" He said with a grin. "What's next?"

(2/2)

"It may not just be Arrancar that I frustrate with this move. You never know, I could use it against some fellow Shinigami's Kidou, and hopefully pull through. This was one of the ones I especially wanted to learn, because it means that I have a more powerful way of defending myself besides the lower level Bakudo." Alder, once again, recollected what he had seen when Genji performed the Bakudo. Obviously, it took a great deal more concentration than the average Kidou, and he'd need to keep that in mind if the Eighth Seat were ever to succeed in performing this particular technique. After he'd observed it enough, he rose his left palm, and chanted softly, "Bakudo Number 39...Enkosen." At first, nothing happened. However, a mist very slowly began to form. When it seemed like it was working, however, the entire kidou vanished without a trace; there had been an odd fluctuation in Alder's Kidou control, and he'd failed to stop it before it intervened with the current Kidou he'd been attempting to cast, ultimately canceling the Kidou entirely.

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With a bit more time, he found that the fluctuation was proving more difficult than he thought. The young Shinigami also discovered that, compared to the other Kidou he'd been learning, this one took a lot more energy, and he was beginning to feel the strain of constantly practicing it. "This Bakudo really is something...." Alder said with a chuckle, sitting down to rest for a little while. "I'm feeling the effects of overusing it to a small degree, most definitely.....Hopefully, I don't faint or anything like that!" The Eighth Seat merely laughed as he lay down on the-oddly-welcoming grass for a brief spell, allowing his body to cool down for a while before he resumed what seemed to be his toughest training yet. Within fifteen minutes, he was up and going again, firing away at the spell until he had it. Thankfully, he wouldn't have to wait long. At the peak of his last attempt, he finally halted the fluctuation, and the Kidou proceeded as Alder had wanted it to. Suddenly, the shield formed perfectly in front of him, and he could feel the sturdiness behind it without even touching the shield itself. "Well.....this is certainly something." He chuckled, waiting for the next Kidou.

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"Well....this looks interesting, to say the least." Alder said with a light chuckle. As if he followed the same pattern for each Kidou Genji showed him, he once again recollected on what he'd seen when Genji utilized the Kidou. Obviously, it took a lot of work to concentrate enough Reiatsu to use a level thirty Kidou in one's fingertip, but that was probably the easy part for a technique like this. When Alder tried it, the purple color of his reiatsu made the tip of his finger glow a dark purple color for only a moment before vanishing suddenly. However, the more he practiced, the longer he could sustain that purple tipped glow, which he would ultimately need more than all else to use Shitotsu Sansen. His first attempt went badly, to say the least; he made an involuntary movement with his finger, causing a small semicircle in the middle of the triangle, dooming the Kidou to failure from the very beginning. Only one of the daggers formed, and it was extremely small, even further mocking his attempts.

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The Eighth Seat continued with complete faith in his abilities, and eventually completed a perfect triangle. Now, the real problem was in making the daggers form, and making them fire in a rapid series of Reiatsu control and intricate movements. He went over forming the triangle countless times, and he could eventually form it in about a third of the time Genji could, which was still fast for someone of his level. He could make the triangle for the Bakudou itself in about a second without pause, so he felt accomplished there. Now, as Alder put more Reiatsu into the triangle, the daggers began to form; his old problem of skimping out on reiatsu had come back to haunt him once again, and this time, it was a seriously high amount of energy. The Eighth Seat pushed in a bit more, and the daggers formed as completely as they had with Genji's original use. Now, all he needed to do was put in enough to make the triangle of energy shoot out at a high velocity, allowing it to impale the next boulder. With one last push, Alder formed the triangle with the daggers, and fired it at high speed in less than two seconds, forcing the boulder next to Genji's to fall with the same result.

(2/2)

(And the last two are one post, since the concept is the same? *Crosses Fingers* XD)

"Ooooh...." Alder said with a laugh as Genji fired the Kidou. "Oh yes....I was most certainly looking forward to the Hadou part of this lesson. Since Captain Mock used Sokatsuki around me for the first time, I've always wanted to learn these attacks. They fascinate me....maybe someday, I'll be able to learn the Thunder Roar Cannon....." He said, temporarily zoning out on the though of learning his favorite Hadou. "My favorite Bakudo is Danku, Number eighty one. I never thought that a simple shield like that could be so strong, and it makes me want to learn the technique desperately." Now, the Eighth Seat's mind shifted to learning Shakkaho, since that was what he was currently assigned. He'd learned the incantation for the spell on his own some time ago-he'd surprise Genji with his knowledge of the incantation before the captain taught it to him. Thankfully, he'd mastered Sokatsui's as well, so that would save him valuable time when it came down to it. Alder had the sensational feelings as the Reiatsu traveled to his palm instead of to his fingertips....it felt so much more powerful....so amazing. "Hadou Number Thirty One.....Shakkaho!"

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The first attempt wasn't BAD.....but it was by no means good, either. The sphere of Reiatsu shot only about two feet away from Alder when it fizzled into nothingness in front of him. This time, he tried it again, realizing that his flaw was the incorrect amount of Reiatsu-AGAIN-the Eighth Seat seemed lacking in that department, mostly due to the fact that he had always been conservative of his energy, which allowed him to fight for long periods of time. Because of this, he'd most likely not use high level Kidou very much until he really go the hang of them. This time, he threw in the incantation for theatrics, and used the correct amount of Reiatsu. "Ye lord! Mask of blood and flesh, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Inferno and pandemonium, the sea barrier surges, march on to the south! Hadou Number Thirty One, SHAKKAHO!" He yelled. Because he'd used the incantation, his sphere was stronger than even Genji's. It soared straight into another boulder, and a violent explosion turned the rock into little more than dust.

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