Who: Kuchiki Byakuya (
ofnoblemind ) and Kuchiki Rukia (
snowwhitesoul )
What: Rukia asked Byakuya to help her train in order to achieve Bankai. He accepted.
Where: Training compound at the Kuchiki Manor
When: August 17th
Warnings: Violence? I don't see it getting terribly messy. XD
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I'm not ready to go alone )
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She spent the night falling into a fitful sleep, unaware of the odd brows raised in her direction by her roommates. The next morning she woke, cooked breakfast, and bathed and tried to prepare herself for the day ahead. Some meditation with Shirayuki left her feeling a little less jittery. But she still fixed herself a cup of strong tea as well.
Its noon on the dot when she enters the training compounds that the estate boasted, looking calm, neat and clean as she was ever going to be, in a neatly laundered and pressed shihakusho. Might as well look presentable, so as not to disgrace her brother. She spies him among the flat, manicured fields of grass mixed with sand and bowed to him waist-deep.
"Nii-sama."
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Sighing quietly to himself, Byakuya turns and starts to walk toward the center of the clearing. "I trust you slept well?" he speaks over his shoulder, already pushing her minor offense to the back of his mind.
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"My apologies, Nii-sama. It was thoughtless of me to be late." She's sincere in her self-recrimination: she wanted to impress and starting everything off on the wrong foot wasn't a good way to do that. But she follows him with less of her eyes and more of her senses as he moves over to the middle of the field that they'd claimed for the day. If he was going to speak nothing more of it, then she'd take what grace she could get today.
"I slept well, Nii-sama." A lie, but not a bold-faced one. What was she going to say? No, I barely slept because I was too nervous and excited about this? It was comfortable, polite chitchat, almost a warm up in its own way; warming them up, loosening familial muscles in preparation of a strenuous workout. She slips in behind him, assuming that her ( ... )
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