Grind the dust [Inv]

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[attr="class","aritext"]Arashi let out a yawn as he followed Nessa. It hadn’t been that long since they last time they met had it? She had something along the lines of it would be fun and she needed help. So here he was following her through some forests waiting to hear her explanation of the current events. He picked at his ear with his right pinky finger as she was beginning to go on about what she needed. Flicking the crud onto the ground he begun to respond to her request. “Well, I guess I could do something to help, but I hope you’re ready.”

He grinned as he vanished from sight. Arashi remembered that the other Shinigami had a harder time keeping up with his natural speed and this would hopefully still be the same. As he was going to appear from behind her. He swung his left hand flat in the form of a chop at the right side of her neck with enough force to bring her to her knees. If she wanted this training, she would have to be broken and beaten down to start to build the endurance. Kenpachi was always destroying his body from what he had heard so it only made sense to do the same to her. Arashi prepared to make this the worst experience she would ever endure.

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[attr="class","aritext"]Arashi watched her fall to her knees before moving over and performing a kip up. He was surprised to hear her already beginning to complain. “Look you’re the one who wants my help right?” His neck popped as he pushed on his chin to tilt it. “You need to understand something Nessie.” He moved as fast as possible to be almost nose to nose with her. “This isn’t going to be fun. You want to know how I got so fast? I pushed myself beyond belief. You want to be able to take the heaviest attacks from an enemy? Then you need to toughen up creampuff. There is only one way to do this and it’s to push your physical limitations.”

As he finished his sentence he jumped into the air bringing his right knee up towards her sternum. He was moving as fast as he possibly could. Her reflexes had to increase along with her movements. Arashi had to get her physical form up to par with his movements and to be able to take stronger attacks. It was going to be a long day for the both of them it seemed.

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[attr="class","aritext"]Arashi sighed watching as she moved away. She wasn’t getting it. Her movements were still slow in comparison and they were way too rigid. She had to be smooth and flow with her environment. He didn’t expect her to change quickly. It was almost like she was always a text book person but maybe that wasn’t fair. She just needed to be shown the adjustments. The moment she put enough distance between them was the same moment he would appear behind her. His speed was so far above most that this feat was as easy as stealing candy from a child.

Once he was behind her all he did was sway his body backwards. Arashi had a habit of repeating his same movements in a fight which would bite him in the ass. He hoped that this would be an opportunity in which Nessa would attempt to counter him by taking advantage of that. He however was prepared for this by moving his torso back to keep from anything hitting him if it was the case. The man wasn’t sure on how she would react though he did hope for her to try to fight back. The more he could teach her in combat the better.

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[attr="class","aritext"]Arashi didn’t have much time to prepare. Instead of doing what he expected she just threw herself backwards at him. As her body crashed into his chest he felt her spiritually hardening herself which was an intelligent choice. He had no choice but to let her continue to flail herself into his chest, but he knew what his next step was. His arms shot forward wrapping around her body like a snake coiling around it’s victim. Arashi begun to squeeze down as hard as possible as they started to move backwards.

As he held down he shifted his weight a bit to the right and tugged her body. He intended to use their momentum as much as possible to slam her to the ground and him land on top. Arashi hoped that by holding down her arms she would not be able to fight out and would just go face first into the dirt. She was intelligent, but it was a mistake just giving her body up completely free. She did however still have her legs however he hoped that she would not be able to react in time to use them. His pounded now from the pain of when she slammed into him but soon it would numb due to the adrenaline pumping through his veins.

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[attr="class","aritext"]Arashi was not prepared for Nessa to start smacking the back of her head into his face. The first blow hurt but was softened a bit as he maintained his composure. However, the repeated blows to the face slowly started to turn his entire face a cherry red. As they slammed into the ground he felt her body once again collide into his causing him minor pain. There was a small amount of blood starting to trickle from his left nostril and his mouth as he started to move. He pushed off the back of her head with his hand to get to her left side.

As soon as he was around he tried to knee her in her ribs. He was making sure to bring as much force up as possible in their awkward position. She had sparked something inside of him that made him a bit more hostile now. If there was one thing he hated it was to be hit in the face especially like that. Arashi wanted to ‘punish’ her for repeatedly headbutting him. He was capable of taking her attacks head on at the moment but it didn’t mean he wanted to do that.

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[attr="class","aritext"]As his knee came down to her side he felt the impact being like that of two pieces of metal hitting. There wasn’t as much give to her body as before as she seemed to be improving defensively. He moved his arms around her body coiling like a snake. She flailed her arms wildly about smacking him in the side of his head with her gauntlets. His ears started ringing but he didn’t budge. He was purposely not going to let her move away. Arashi wanted to squeeze her entire chest with his arms as she continued to fight.

“You know how to pack a punch.” He smiled a bit as he got hit again. His head was beginning to throb a bit as he begun to push off the ground while trying to continue squeezing her. “I like them rough.” He added cheekily. Arashi wanted to throw her off with a little distraction as he was moving. The Shinigami intended to swing his entire body backwards and send her flying in the form of a suplex. He certainly hoped that she would be able to handle this otherwise she was going to be ending up in the infirmary.

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[attr="class","aritext"]Arashi was still breathing heavy even after throwing her backwards. She seemed to be just fine though and was able to stop herself from being hurt. He smiled softly as he stood back to attention. He let out a yawn as he listened to her talk and shrugged a shoulder when she said that was probably enough. The Shinigami spat out the blood that had compacted into his mouth during their friendly spar. He felt the warm liquid also dripping out from his nostril still as he tried reaching into his clothes for a spar napkin.

“It’s no problem at all, but man..” He trailed off as closed off his right nostril and blew out his left. He wiped with a crumpled-up napkin from earlier in the day. “You sure have a hard head girl.” He came off a bit congested as he plugged the nostril with the remainder of the said napkin. “If you ever need some more help let me know but next time I don’t want to actually fight.” Arashi chuckled softly as he walked over to her. “You’re almost too much for me to handle now in a fight.” He grinned as he reached out to pat her on her left shoulder.

“How’ve you been by the way?” He asked as casually glanced over to the side. There were some critters running around the forest near them that caught his attention. It seemed all of them were roaming around again now that their sparring session ended. He turned his head back to her as he focused more on their conversation again.

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[attr="class","aritext"]He shrugged his shoulders a tad when she mentioned the whole thing about recruitment. It was obvious though that she did want to go back and since he had known her she always seemed to be burdening a weight. It seemed as if the thing she had inside of her that made her a vizard was also the same thing dragging her down. It was as if she was always carrying weights on her emotionally. He felt sympathetic as he wasn’t too sure what it was like for her. Sure, he had left the thirteen in disgrace siding with Olympus, but it was also for him to go undercover.

At this point though he had no reason to return, but there was still a part of him that hated it. He wished he never acted the way he did because for all he knew everyone wanted his head on a silver platter. The higher up seemed to know the truth but could his actions truly be justified in a way that would mean reinstatement. After all it had been a few months without contact with them and it was just making things seem worse. “You know I really don’t know what they are planning on doing. Sometimes I don’t really care either. I mean unlike you I don’t have anything to tie me to either world at this point. I’m just a little orphan that was sucked into this mess because some asshole with a lamp post decided to kill me.”


He glared at her to hint that this was not something to laugh at. Arashi felt some of the remaining sweat flying away as the wind flowed right under his hair. He could feel the temperature start to cool a tad as the shade started to encapsulate them. “Nessie, what is it you want to do in this world?” He asked sincerely as he himself still wondered what the point was. Maybe she could enlighten him unlike Tyrannus.

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[attr="class","aritext"]Arashi listened to her as she spoke sincerely. It did not seem that she had anything to hide from him now. Since they were on the same page after nearly beating the crap out of one another. That first encounter was something, he still felt the lumps from her battering him, and winced as he felt his nose. She would always be a power player on the battlefield he only hoped she would not be used like a puppet by either side. He sat down in front of her with his legs crossed in front of his body.

It was refreshing to know that she was also unaware of what she wanted to do. He was in the exact same boat. A sinking ship falling into despair without any sort of life preserver. They both had options to join a side in the war that was ongoing but what was the point? Would he just continue to be a soldier forever or would he settle down in life? He let out a deep sigh as he started to have a mini existential crisis. His mind raced with possibilities of what to do in the future, but he was brought back to reality when a small bird landed on his hand.

“I hate that about this world. I felt the same way you did about power and always wanting it. I thought it would fix everything for me being the strongest Shinigami possible. Then, surprise, the quincy show up in full force exterminating everything in their path. This is some crazy stuff going on. In all honesty I just wish things could be simple.” He looked over to her with his squinted now from the sun shining right down on him. The white parchment was now a shade of red due to the blood being soaked into it.

“Whatever happened to working a regular job and coming home to spend the rest of the evening with a lovely lady? Now a days I must deal with a giant walking and talking monkey whose sole purpose in life is to destroy everything. Then I have extremists wanting to burn down the gotei thirteen because of the past events. And to top it all off I am constantly meeting these weird people who expect me to help them when they’re in a bind.” He groaned a bit as he was starting to go off in a tangent about his life. “Honestly! Why can’t I just find a nice girl and settle down? Someone who is pretty, sassy, and doesn’t always need me help? Someone like you.” The way he said the last part hinted at it being a joke though a sly look did cross his face for a moment.