The Light Fantastic [Crisis Core]

f course Raiden was there first. Ever the keen one. Blodeuwen's lips tightened. Hopefully this wouldn't be too awkward. He was fine really but... His forwardness, and prying. His attempt to psyche her out especially had annoyed her and Blodeuwen held a wicked grudge. She nodded in response to his greeting, her face solemn. Hopefully the others would arrive before he could say anythi- oh and there he went. Blodeuwen sighed, shutting her eyes and rubbing her eyelids with a thumb and forefinger. What was she going to do with this boy?

"Honestly Raiden, you wouldn't have, had it not been on executive orders. Apology accepted. I appreciate your concern but if there were anythings bothering me that I had wanted to talk about with you, believe me I would have said. Please don't burst into the Kido Corps' Shiro unannounced again." she said warningly. Hopefully he would get the picture that she was still mad, but she was going to let it go for now. They could be friends. At least for the time it took Blodeuwen to teach them some kido, at the very least. Before Raiden would be able to respond, Misato dropped in on them. She reeked of sake and she appeared to have... Cookies!? And she was eating a jigokucho. Blodeuwen choked back a sob of surprise. Eating a hell butterfly!? How could she? After all the work Aoi had put in raising them. She tried to not get too angry, but could feel ire bubbling up inside her as she watched Misato, drunkenly shirking her duties and gesturing indolently. Worse, she had referred to herself and Raiden by incredibly disrespectful nicknames.

With a flash, Blodeuwen stepped over to where Misato was, and quicker than Misato would be able to react, would backhand her across the face, in an attempt to sober her up. She also took the cookies and plucked the jigokucho wing from Misato's mouth, before returning to her previous position, the cookies and jigokucho wing seemingly vanished into thin air.

"Misato, straighten up, and act like the shinigami you are. I don't want to see you slacking off any more." she said viciously. It was halfway through this speech that Arata showed up. She smiled at the sleepy shinigami, he was a bit quiet but he seemed gentle. He was a model of the Yonbantai in all the ways Misato was not a model of the Ichibantai.

"That's okay Arata, come and join the others." she said. "Looks like it's just the three of you, so I'd say we should get started in learning some kido. Sound good?"

lodeuwen glared at Misato. Clearly she'd not gotten the memo, because for some sick reason she'd chosen to eat the jigokucho. She couldn't quite believe how disgusting that was. And Aoi had worked so hard on them as well. She raised a single eyebrow sardonically. She physically wouldn't be able to teach this class if she had to deal with a drunk student who spent the whole time cutting across. She was very close at this point to simply sending Misato away and instructing her never to return to any class that she taught. It was unacceptable behaviour and she was certainly going to let Genryuusai hear about that the next time she spoke to him. And now Misato was trying to spill the secrets that the Central 46 had ordered to be covered up permanently. Did she want her powers stripped off of her? Blodeuwen looked puzzled on the outside, and nothing more, however.

"No Misato, I don't recall. I do not believe that such a thing occurred." She spoke with an air of absolute finality. "Please stand to attention; if you are unable to even stand because of your drunken stupor, then I am afraid you will be unable to participate in this session. Regardless; Raiden, to answer your question, I will teach you kido in line with your abilities. In order to do that, I want to see you utilise your strongest kido. Hado and Bakudo only sorry, Arata. One of each." he was extremely proficient in Ryodo, or Kaido, i.e. healing spells. But Blodeuwen didn't particularly want to teach those. In all likelihood Arata was far more adept at that than she was.

"So Raiden first, then Arata. And then Misato, if you are feeling less belligerent, you can also demonstrate your abilities." without another word, three training dummies popped up out of the ground and Blodeuwen stepped aside for them, interested to see what they could do.

t the very least, Blodeuwen could count on Raiden and Arata to successfully do their own thing. When they started, she would, of course, be on hand to shout pointers if they needed anything. But teaching others kido was in fact the best way to improve one's own kido. So she didn't feel too bad about focusing on those two a little less while she gave Misato the attention she obviously needed. Kaori however was the next to act, Misato still a little lost in the world of her own. The girl was one of the more experienced members of the Crisis Core, and so Blodeuwen expected great things from her.

She saw the first Hado and wasn't too disappointed, but her pretty face creased into a frown. It had been a Hado executed at the same level as Arata's but it wasn't quite as refined. So she didn't quite have Raiden or Arata's chops. Well, that sort-of made sense. Arata spent all of his time using kido, albeit healing kido, and she had taught Raiden before, and thus held him to a high standard. It was the point at which Kaori had finished her first Hado that Blodeuwen started paying attention to Misato. She was fiddling about with low-level kido but she was doing something... Interesting with them. She saw Misato attempting to cast Shakkaho.

"Woah there Misato, you have to wrap the energy more tightly so it doesn't go off in your face." she informed the substitute, who seemed to take her criticism on board. For a first attempt it was pretty damn good. "Yes, like that." Blodeuwen said, watching her intently. She then turned her attention back on Kaori, who had flash stepped further away, began to cast her bakudo. Yes, she had gone further away as, unlike Arata, who had cast the same spell, Kaori did not have the skill just yet to make her kido avoid people. Adapting the highly rigid energies of Kido was difficult. As Kaori returned, Blodeuwen nodded to her to signify that she was aware of her return.

Misato appeared to be using her kido in a very inventive way. She made an explosive smoke grenade with very precise execution of low level kido. Her variety was impressive and the way she strung them together was befitting of a much more skilled practitioner. Blodeuwen was beginning to understand that there was something there underneath Misato's goof-off, slacker exterior. If only she could drag it out.

"Misato, that's very creative. It's one skill to be able to fire off kido, and another to be able to use them well in combat. I have faith that you have the latter skill. But for you to use it to its fullest extent you need to improve both the execution speed, and stability of your kido. You need to get your spiritual "muscle memory" in the right frame of mind. I think a good kido for you to learn would be Tsuriboshi." Blodeuwen fished around in a satchel nearby and retrieved the relevant scroll that she had copied in beautiful calligraphic cursive from the master copy in the Kido Library. She handed it to Misato to read. It was just the kind of Kido that she would be able to dynamically apply in a combat situation that could come in incredibly usefully for her.

She turned to Kaori. She wasn't sure the best way to proceed with this one. Hmm. Perhaps, a Hado? Yes. Her hado had been a full 10 levels weaker. Blodeuwen was determined to give her something to push her boundaries.

"Kaori, that was a good effort. I think the key for you at this stage is to just push for stronger and stronger kido. I think if you do that, the rest should begin to fall into place. So, let's get you started with Tenran. Watch carefully. Dusty feathers, raven beaks, make my wings! Tear into an angel's cloud, and flow the northern winds into a phylactery!" Blodeuwen cast. She spun her zanpakuto carefully as she did so, in an almost martial type of movement. Of course, she did not need to do this when casting herself, but this was a slightly different case. She wanted to show Kaori the exact movements she needed. Once she had executed the right movements she unleashed the kido. "Hado 58, Tenran!" she cast, and a horizontal tornado launched forward from her zanpakuto. The energy would be fairly significant, and blasted across the training fields, the accompanying reiatsu enough to impair the others for a few moments. After that, she would hand Kaori the scroll.

"Give it a go." She said with a warm smile, her pacific eyes sparkling with mirth in the sunshine. In the mean time, it seemed that Misato had yet more questions for her. Hmm. She was in a much more receptive frame of mind now, and as such, she thought deeply about them.

"The Kido to which you refer is Bakudo Number Fifty Eight. Kakushitsuijaku is its name. You're right in that it is much more accurate than a normal mode of reiatsu sense. The energy of the Kido itself is used to track as opposed to having to use your own reiatsu sense. However I doubt it could track something through a senkaimon or a garganta. That's just because the output of the kido; the co-ordinates, only work within the World you are in. It would go through Bakudo Number Twenty Six though. For one, it's a higher numbered kido; it's more powerful, in general. And Kyokko only hides your sight, nothing else." she said softly.