Piece by Piece (Priv, Aoi)

He thought she was weird, but he felt it would be rude not to simply accept her thanks now. Though he was getting a little bit confused at that point as he sighed. He watched as she hopped into the centre of the yard with her flash step, it seemed really graceful which was probably to be expected of her due to her image and stature. He noticed the wooden fence and wandered if that would not make fighting harder since he had a habit of making flashy explosions. Not because he liked explosions but because explosions just happened to make the world look nice for a moment. He had a phase though when he was young in which he felt art was a blast, but to some degree his zanpakuto Kagami feels art is something that mirrors the best of the world. So what better art would there be if they could one day mirror an explosion of flowers.

He watched her walk to the other end and make a few practice swings before realising he was suppose to join her. He used a flash step of his own which unlike hers looked a bit disorientated like the movements of a small cat as he landed on all fours then blushing. "Sorry, I knew I shouldn't have watched that cat show in town." The boy pouted a bit and blushed as he was a bit upset that he did that on reflex. She mentioned they should have a little fun which just made him blush some more before shaking his head a few times before jumping back to be equal distance from her as he then waited.

"Sachiko, I think you really strong so I will let you see something I did not get to show you last time"

He held his small blade which looked like a tanto

"Reflect, Kagami!!" as the blade doubled in length and had a blue hue to it as you could see the reflection of the objects near to the blade. He took the blade with one hand and simply sheathed it as he prepared to show her his real kido

The boy began to think to himself as he had seen her before as his mind began organising the information inside his head.
Sachiko no Heian is of the noble blood line, she seemed rather weak against the man on earth. However she had a massive icy barrier and this time was some water splash and a while after that she now revealed a whirling water sphere defence. Were these three different abilities or just a simple water manipulation ability. The only definite thing he knew was that she had an elemental type zanpakuto much different to his zanpakuto's reflective nature.

He began to wonder why she kept hitting her staff into the ground and it began to occur to him, perhaps she is required to pierce the ground in order to use her ability. Though that on its own might be a trap as well, but he needed to know the strength of her defence and there was only one way to test it as hiding would be pointless once she figures out the way to beat it.

He revealed himself as he faced the palm of his hand towards her not planning on holding anything back since she showed promise in kido he wanted to show her some real top class kido.

"Hadō #48 Onkyō Shakkahō"

A crimson red hot flame with the head appearing like the tip of an arrow flew straight towards her and upon impact it would explode in her location, was she going to use the waters to attempt to defend or would she have something better up her sleeves. He was not sure but he wanted to make an impact on her so she would not forget about him in the midst of her intense training in the future.

He was still learning and this was currently his strongest kido technique available to him.

She did something he never expected, why was she lowering her defence when he was attacking as there was no way to pull back the attack he just decided to believe in her ability and try to think of a tactic since it was clear this was not simply some ordinary defensive technique. She must have been distracted by something as he figured she would at least have been able to completely avoid that attack or block it with the water technique she used before. Was she trying to hide the true abilities of her zanpakuto as he watched blood dripping before realising she had moved out of the way with a well timed flash step.

However he was a bit shocked as she crashed into the barrier as he remembered that this was his current strongest kido, however he did not see anything wrong with using his most powerful technique against a girl, or a friend, especially when he believed her to be too strong to go down from something like that. She flicked her spear and water shot from the tip and that is when something occurred to him, the spear tip hitting into the ground several times, the water was always shot from the tip of her spear. Though that alone was too minor for him to use, at least not at his current level of skill. He was watching the technique curve towards the right and he began to wonder what she was planning as she followed the water. Was she going to reinforce the water from behind so he could use his mirror image again.

He heard a familiar sound, though it was a bit too late to do something spectacular as he simply pulled back a bit raising his arms up in a full block with his knees also raised to try and stop her attack since he was a bit unprepared. He flew towards the barrier as he crashed hard against it as he cried out in pain slightly his mouth wide open as the saliva flew into the air. He fortunately was not bleeding but he nearly lost consciousness for a moment as he fell to the ground crashing hard. He was coughing a bit as he was struggling to his feet, he was not really good at dealing with hand to hand combat. He took a heavy breath as he struggled to his feet. Would she even allow him a chance to recover now that she had an opening.

The boy was in shock as he looked up as she said those words to him, without any doubt in her mind as he felt a bomb drop on him as if to say all his time in the academy was wasted. He began to wonder if there was somewhere that he belonged where he was actually needed. He only found trouble and was not strong enough to solve any of it on his own, he did not understand why he could be so good in kido. His kido skill alone was exceptional, but he usually lost out in all other areas whether it was hand to hand combat or better use of their shikai he could not tell.

He had faced off against Nessa who he had beaten in kido and realising this she decided to break through with brute force followed by some nasty kido after he had suffered heavy damage from her fist. He also had a somewhat good fight against Rasen of the eleventh squad who was inferior to him, but used the brute force of his zanpakuto and his iron will to gain an upperhand. He knew he could have won, but the chances of losing were so great it made him doubt himself so he quit while he was ahead.

How could he face her if he gave up so easily as he looked up to her some what teary eyed, however a fiery determined passion had lit up inside him as he looked down to the side like a stubborn little boy.

"Sachiko, can we go again please" as he had a face that was ready to burst into tears if she rejected his request