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[ura_no_ura]

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[skyleopardess]

[If asked, she'd tell Kakashi that it certainly takes a fair amount of practice--it's easy to get distracted in a fight and lose your footing without sufficient focus.]

[His explanation is fascinating, though--manipulating one's own reiryoku is one thing, but to manipulate the earth as well? His use of 'elemental' implies that earth isn't the only substance he can affect. If so, his techniques sound immensely useful.]

You're basically trying to go as far as possible while using as few steps as possible. You gather spiritual energy at your feet to [she pauses] propel you, for lack of a better term.

[ura_no_ura]

And can anyone learn how to use this technique?

[ He's not even going to try and pretend like he isn't interested in learning. ]

[skyleopardess]

[She pauses, her eyes scanning him a moment--not unfriendly, but assessing. When she finally speaks, it's deliberate, and rather more sober than she's been with him before.]

You might be able to learn, if you can control your energy well enough. But human bodies aren't meant to travel at those speeds--if you overdo it, you could shatter your own bones.

[And she'd just as soon not be responsible for that happening to him.]

[ura_no_ura]

[ That's more or less what he assumed. It is, however, a risk he is more than willing to take. Even though he knows he'll never be a fraction of the shunpo user Yoruichi is, he can see how it'd be immensely useful in battle. ]

I'd be interesting in learning, and would be happy to teach you what I can, if you are interested in any ninja techniques.

[skyleopardess]

[A wry, almost exasperated smile touches her lips, and she blows out an amused huff. She can't say she's surprised by his answer, but she still intends to keep a close eye on him as they train. Shinigami bodies can take much more punishment than a human's, after all.]

Don't say I didn't warn you. So tell me, if that was an earth technique, are there other kinds?

[ura_no_ura]

Plenty. [ Kakashi nods. ]

Ninja techniques most people can learn are comprised of three different types -- taijutsu, or hand-to-hand combat; genjutsu, which creates illusions; and ninjutsu, which is a broad term for any sort of technique that involves molding chakra and using hand seals to activate the jutsu.

Within ninjutsu include elemental jutsu, which allows you to manipulate earth, water, wind, fire, and lightning.

[skyleopardess]

[Yoruichi listens, folding her arms across her chest in unconscious habit.]

To be honest, I'm more interested in breaking illusions than casting them.

[It's too late to do anything about Aizen, but if she can help it, she'll never be caught at the mercy of someone's illusions again.]

Kidou uses your own reiryoku, but it doesn't use elements the way you just did. I wouldn't mind learning more about that.

[ura_no_ura]

"Kidou"? "Reiryoku?"

[ Kakashi starts to close the distance between them since he'd really rather not have a conversation some twenty feet apart. ]

I don't think I'm familiar with those terms.

[skyleopardess]

[Yoruichi steps closer as well, now that it looks like their game of tag is done for the moment.]

Kidou is the term for the techniques I was telling you about before--the ones we can use for offense, defense or healing. Reiryoku is just another term for spiritual energy.

[ura_no_ura]

Ah, I see. I suppose in my world, we would call reiryoku "chakra", which is the output of spiritual and physical energy, molded together.

[ Kakashi heads across the field until he's standing in arm's distance away from Yoruichi. ]

Is reiryoku only spiritual energy, or is there a physical element, too?

[skyleopardess]

[She shakes her head]

Just spiritual. Everyone at home has some level of spiritual energy, but not everyone has enough to use it.

[She pauses]

You can use it to enhance your physical strength, but those techniques aren't like what you've shown me.

[Strictly speaking, shunko is a blend of physical and spiritual strengths, but the results are nothing like what Kakashi's shown he can do.]

[ura_no_ura]

Ah, is that so?

[ Now he's curious. ]

How high would say my level is?

[ It's hard for him to gauge his own spiritual energy, after all, seeing as spiritual energy is only half of what makes up chakra. ]

[skyleopardess]

Stronger than most people.

[She pauses]

Stronger than most humans, anyway. I'd say you feel about average for a shinigami.

[She hasn't yet told anyone she isn't human, but it's not like she'd hiding it, either. This is just one of the few conversations where it's relevant to mention.]

[ura_no_ura]

[ Anything else that might have come out of Kakashi's mouth at that moment promptly evaporates as he just blinks. ]

Shinigami.

[ Monotoned as he half-wonders if the shinigami that Sandaime and Minato summoned looked anything like Yoruichi. ]

[skyleopardess]

[They couldn't possibly have looked as good as Yoruichi]

[She grins at his startled blink, inordinately pleased to have taken him aback, even slightly]

Mm hmm~

[ura_no_ura]

[ She had said "stronger than most humans," which means that she isn't human, but in fact, a "shinigami." What that means in her world is most likely considerably different from Kakashi's own. ]

I never exactly pictured a god of death looking quite like you.

[ If that particular sentence hadn't come out in such dry monotone, it might have sounded like he was flirting with her. ]

[skyleopardess]

What did you think we looked like?

[Given that Kakashi is from a different world entirely, she's curious as to what his conception of a shinigami might be.]

[ura_no_ura]

Monstrous.

[ Said without any hesitation.

After all, bijuu alone look monstrous enough, and Kakashi could only imagine a shinigami, the likes of which Minato and Sandaime summoned with Shiki Fuuin no Jutsu, would be far worse. ]

[skyleopardess]

[She blinks at that. No hesitation there.]

Well, some of us aren't terribly pretty, but I wouldn't go so far as to say monstrous.

[Her lips twitch in amusement]

I have been called a monster, but I can't help what humorless brats think of me.

[ura_no_ura]

[ Kakashi quirks a brow at that. ]

Monstrous, huh. I guess that makes two of us.

[ A bit dryly. ]

[skyleopardess]

[She heaves a theatrical sigh and shakes her head]

The very idea~

[Yoruichi doesn't know Kakashi well--hell, she doesn't even know what he looks like under that mask. But she's been around enough actual monsters to feel comfortable that he's not one.]

It's a cruel world, when people like us can be so unfairly maligned.

[ura_no_ura]

Mm, I suppose that is the case.

[ Murmured with a smile that curves his eye perfectly. And it's at that very moment that his hand just happens to casually slide out and, in a flash, he's given Yoruichi's arm a tap. ]

Ah~ I believe I've caught you~

[ Teasing a bit now, because really, he was playing dirty by letting her think that their little game of tag was over when neither of them actually said it was. ]

[skyleopardess]

[She blinks]

[Opens her mouth]

[Then despite her dawning chagrin, a grin tugs at her lips]

I take it back. One of us is clearly quite fairly maligned.

[She's getting him back for that at some point. There's no way around it now.]

[ura_no_ura]

Maa, maa, Yoruichi-san~ It's not my fault that you let your guard down~

[ Lilting, practically sing-song. ]

[skyleopardess]

Maybe I shouldn't be taking you on as a pupil after all--who knows what sort of things you'd get up to if you managed to learn shunpo.

[Still looking amused, she raises an eyebrow, ignoring the little squeeze as his mannerism reminds her once again of Urahara. With any luck, the rumors are true, and he doesn't even know she's gone.]