What do you mean that's not how you train?

A small boy hidden behind one of the training trees as he was a bit annoyed. These girls stole his kido blasting spot, now where was he going to have fun practicing his explosions as he sighed. He was suppressing his spiritual pressure, but decided to play it safe as he whispered silently.

"Bakudo #26 Kyokko"

Now completely hidden from the two girls the boy decided to approach closer walking towards them so he could actually hear what is going on meanwhile remembering missing out on playing video games at the arcade in the human world the other day made him feel like crying.

He decided to look for a nice spot as he approached even closer. Was that not one of the ladies from the kidoshu, and why did the kidoshu have so many girls did the guys just suck at kido perhaps even though he learnt that the previous heads had been male in the past. Maybe men just did not have skill in kido anymore, as he began to wonder if getting more mature and bigger would mean his kido would become weak. He yawned silently as he rubbed his eyes, today was one of his day's off so he was wearing plain shin'o academy training outfits, unfortunately he was not allowed to train any kido above the fifth tier out in the training grounds. He saved that for the special training room which he left full of holes the other day trying to master the cataclysm technique he developed from reading many books on Hado in order to master the way of destruction since explosions were cool.

“Heh, Shiori? Hm, hm, hm. I guess this must be another one of those everyday little quirks of fate right?” Mori giggled. If she noticed Aoi’s efforts at all she gave no sign of it. Instead she just preoccupied herself by thinking of setting up Sasaki with one of her cousins. The idea of her name becoming Shiori Shiori only resulted in more laughing on Mori’s part and likely did little to help Sasaki’s impression of her sanity.

Eventually she managed to get her giggle-snorting under control, and wiping away a tear brought to her eye from her excessive laughing she said, “Heh, honestly though, having a training partner would be really nice, but you know… There’s a lot of people in the 1st who feel like the Kido Corps are interfering in Gotei affairs with the stunt that kid of you guys’ pulled and with Kuchiki-taichou’s actions that feeling’s spread to the 6th. Honestly, I don’t have any interest in that matter. There’s nothing good that can come out of such inter-organizational enmity right? Still… well, I do have my pride as a member of the Shiori family and a member of the first. With how poetic meeting you here is, it seems like sort of a waste to just to merely train.”

“So…..” Mori said taking a stance facing off against Sasaki, practice sword in hand, with a smirk on her face that just oozed cockiness, “What do you say if we make this interesting, eh?”

The problem with Kido was that it's slow. Even with incantation abandonment you still needed to proclaim the name of the spell. Even without the supernaturally speeded reflexes of your average Shinigami that was still more than enough time to dive for cover. It was good for ambushes and if there was someone to cover you. In a one on one duel where the other guy has a pretty decent idea of what to expect? Not so much.

“Lots of frills and ribbons and girly stuff,” She answered waiting until the last syllable of “Byakurai” to Shunpo away. The Kido hit the ground and kicked up a cloud of dust just as Sasaki expected, but Moriko wasn't waiting behind it. By sheer dumb luck her Shunpo took her right near where Aoi sat invisibly. It was close enough that another couple inches and she would have tripped right over him.

“You know-" She started only to have the words die in her mouth when Sasaki attempted to step behind her.

That? That was when everything fell apart.

See, Moriko barely managed to avoid tripping over the boy. She had her back to him, facing Sasaki. With her back to him, well, when Sasaki tried to Step to behind her back to deliver the knock out blow chances are pretty good that things would get very awkward very quickly when the Shinigami suddenly found an invisible boy right beneath her feet.

Moriko didn't know about that. She just reacted with panicked instinct to suddenly finding the other woman behind her. With a squawked "Wha-!" she half turned, half fell away from Sasaki while bringing her left arm up in a chop. The overall execution was rather sloppy, but the attack itself was beyond "Self Defense for Dummies." It cut through the air like an unseathed blade, not the meaty thud of a karate chop. Would Sasaki even notice her moment of mistakenly revealed competency while dealing with the invisible boy though? That was the question.

In either case, Mori Stepped again to put some distance between her and Sasaki and turned to face the other woman.

The kidoshu woman spoke first with a scowl on her face it was as if she was glaring the boy to death for no apparent reason. She wanted to ask him why he was watching them, why he was there and why they should apologise to him. It was his spot how could they not understand the situation they were in now. She did not seem to have a good impression of the boy who was normally simply to understand.

The other girl then spoke about not being harsh on a kid, was he the kid amongst these really old but beautiful women. She was right about one thing, he was definitely curious since he had minimal contact with girls other than his sister back when he was alive. She seemed so chilled in the situation that this other girl may very well be a bit stupid or just carefree. It was hard to draw the fine line between idiot and genius at times as misinformation can make things strange.

She asked if he was curious as he blushed then looked down to the side fidgeting with his feet a bit. She then spoke of joining and some talk of a porcupine trap as he tilted his head slightly lost as he answered.

"This is my spot, I just wanted to see when you two would be finished with it so I can practice a few more explosions"

As he pointed to a few blown up training dummies and some random craters here and there that had been made during his training the previous day. He had a habit of going overboard sometimes, which was just him being curious about how big an explosion he could make

He listened in confusion at the one hostile girl and on the other end there was the more cheerful girl. He was actually rather shy, but it seemed that the master of hostility did not get any of this. Dealing with small children was something you had to get used to sometimes in Soul Society, and at other times you could spend your days in a lab or in deep meditation to get stronger and more powerful until the day you can get no stronger.

The girl took a step as he began to wonder why these girls in the kidoshu did not like him. Was it cause he was a boy or because they were maybe jealous. She appeared below as he wondered why he did not get off the training post as what she was doing seemed dangerous. She seemed to be going for something violent as he fell back as he just watched the training post explode before his eyes. Was this crazy woman trying to kill him or something as she spoke like some degenerate or backwaters country girl. Not that he even knew what that was, but her composure seemed more like a brute from squad eleven then a member of the kido corps. Was the world only full of violent girls, though he remembered meeting a harmless girl in Kurakara town and this other girl seemed more laid back.

He got confused as she said his tone was condescending as his small mind tried to get a grip within this chaos.

"Not sure what condescending is, but I usually train here"

He knew it was a nice spot, the wind blew in his hair to make him look cool, the air fuelled the flames or seemed to fuel the flames of his techniques and there were good spots for explosions he had not used yet. He did have to scratch his head a bit as the dust and splinters of the training post landed in his hair. He had no idea what to do and why she was setting up a defensive stance. Did she want to fight with him?