Copycat's Request | Kazuya

[Kazuya Hikari]

Bowing his head respectfully to Mitsuki, Kazuya would not ask her any further and respect her choice. She had already divulged more than enough information to him, there was no need for him to know every miniscule detail about her Qi, though likewise, there was no need for Mitsuki to learn every single detail about his Qi. He would help her out of course, but he wasn't going to teach her every little thing that could be done using his Qi.

It was nothing personal, but even he had to keep all the advantage cards he had with his Qi close to his chest.

"... Of course. But considering boxer shorts are not exactly the most suitable attire for training, meet me at the area located behind my home in five minutes. It's a wide, open space, suitable for our training."

Turning and sliding the door open, after Mitsuki headed out of the room, Kazuya would follow after her, and closing the door behind him, he would head upstairs to his room and quietly change into a loose plain black t-shirt, a pair of black track pants, and a pair of worn down black and red shoes. He'd then head out of the house and to the wide, open field with rolling hills and a windswept ridge located behind his home, meeting with Mitsuki as he said he would.

"... Are you ready to begin?"

[Mitsuki Park]

Suitable for training, and also a location of privacy- she hoped. She nodded her head in agreement, heading towards the open area behind his house. While Kazuya was suiting up, Mitsuki was stripping down. She dropped her bag and pulled off her clothes until she was in a pair of shorts and a loose v-neck tee. The unfortunate thing about his Qi was that it would likely set her items on fire and damage them and she couldn't have that happening so she came prepared. Bare feet padded lightly against the soft mother Earth, eyes closing at the gentle morning breeze.

Such a peaceful morning.

She was already tired from the small exhibit she had shown Kazuya (as well as the lack of sleep), but regardless she began the change. The unfortunate thing about using her Qi was that it was never really hers- the copying, the storing, the memorizing...those were hers. But copying someone else's and using it for herself- that required an insane amount of change that her body simply wasn't used to. Switching to Leon's Qi came with relative ease because that was the primary Qi she used- but it wasn't to say that she was completely comfortable with that, either.

When Kazuya asked if she was ready to begin, she audibly exhaled. She nodded her head...and then remembered he was blind. Mitsuki, usually being a woman of few words, would have to remind herself to tell rather than show when she was with Kazuya.

"Ah--...nevermind."

She thought about telling him the consequences when she extensively used her Qi, but decided not to. She knew her limits, and would stop herself accordingly. She just hoped Kazuya wouldn't be too disappointed if she stopped a little too early.

"Yeah, I'm ready."

[Kazuya Hikari]

If it's privacy Mitsuki wanted, the field had it in spades. Though it was wide and open, it had tall forests located on all sides, not to mention the hills were rather high. Although Mitsuki was unaware, Kazuya had in fact, "seen" her nod her head through detecting her body heat, though that was one advantage of his Qi no one, except for David, knew of.

Mitsuki knew Kazuya had been trained to fight without sight, but not that he had been using his Qi to detect an opponent's movement and strikes through their body heat.

"...? ... Alright, we'll start with the most basic technique of my Qi. Try to form fireballs in both your hands, then see if you can hit the target when throwing the fireballs: me."

Standing about 5 feet away from Mitsuki, he would start with being a standing still target, and was ready when she was. Moving targets would come later.

[Mitsuki Park]

She held out her hands before her and stared, not having a clue on how to form fireballs. Her eyes would flicker toward Kaz briefly before returning to her hands. Was it similar to Leon's electricity...?

She took a deep breath before focusing the flow of inner energy toward her palms. Her hands felt warmer than the rest of her body, and a couple minutes later, a small flame would appear. Slow exhale...and the flame became larger within her hand. She replicated it onto her other, the second time much quicker but to Kazuya, still relatively slow...

She looked up at Kazuya.

"...ready?"

[Kazuya Hikari]

A small smile tugging at the corners of his mouth at "seeing" Mitsuki hold her hands out in front of her like the fireballs were going to suddenly appear out of nowhere, Kazuya's smile would tug even more as he detected two new sources of heat from Mitsuki. Good, she had managed to form the fireballs it seemed, now the real test was going to begin, as he held his arms up in front of him in a cross-shape, the target Mitsuki was aiming for.

"... Ready."

[Mitsuki Park]

This was going to be reeeaaal amusing. For the most part, she had relatively good hand-eye coordination, which helped in sports like basketball. But basketball was something Mitsuki could physically hold...and although the fire was plain in sight, Mitsuki almost felt as if she weren't holding anything. Just a consistant warmth. If she squeezed her hand into a fist, it would probably either go out of just engulf her hand.

She moved her right hand up and down, as if testing the waters, trying to get the fireball to bounce a bit in her hand. Once that was steady enough, she arched her shoulder back before tossing it forward in Kazuya's direction, not exactly sure how much force to exert because of fire's seemingly weightless property.

So...naturally, not wanting to throw it too far and accidentally hit something she wasn't supposed to, the fireball landed short. A grin crossed her face- maybe Kazuya didn't have to be ready for anything.

With her second fireball in her left hand, she threw it with a little more force. Still fell a bit short, but was significantly closer to Kazuya than the other.

A fireball appeared on her left hand, much quicker than the first two.

"...I'm going to throw another one."

And, if she got his approval, she would launch the fireball at Kazuya! IS THE THIRD TIME A CHARM?!

[Kazuya Hikari]

And Kazuya was waiting, and waiting... and the fireball didn't hit him the first time. Or the second time. But he did "see" Mitsuki's aim was improving, the second one landing closer to him than the first, near his left foot, his arms lowering down slightly as he "looked" at her, not bad for her first try.

Sensing another source of heat forming, telling him Mitsuki had formed another fireball, and rather quickly, he would smirk slightly. She had grasped the concept of channeling her Qi and heat energy and manifesting it into a physical form through her hands very quickly, considering he had offered no instructions whatsoever.

"... Understood."

Raising his arms back up in front of him again, third time was the charm indeed... well sort of. She didn't hit the middle of the cross, but she managed to hit his left arm, which was out in front. Snuffing the flames out with a a quick whip of his arms outward, he would have Mitsuki continue to practice throwing fireballs at him until she could hit the middle of the cross perfectly, with no sweat.

"... Alright, now we will move on to the next technique. Firing blasts or streams of flames from your hands has the same basic principle as fireballs. The only difference is, the blasts of fire is much quicker, and the streams are continuous. Try to fire a blast of fire from each hand first at me."

[Mitsuki Park]

The fire balls were much like forming a bolt of electricity- she noticed that Qi worked relatively in the same manner; it was largely a focus of one's inner energy, and they just so happened to manifest in different ways. Their physical properties were different, but in the end- Qi was still Qi; a form of raw energy that each (if not, many) individual has.

So she would continue to create these fireballs and throw them in his direction, each one hitting either with more power, whereas accuracy came shortly after.

His next set of instructions were confounding because they weren't really instructions. Creating fireballs was largely based on her speculation that they worked similarly to Leon's electricity...and even then, her experience with electricity was limited.

"Hnnh."

Already she began to perspire a thin layer of sweat. She lifted up a hand and pointed her palm in his direction, but not much would happen. A fireball would form on her palm, and she would quench it by clenching her hand into a fist before trying again- sometimes, the fireball would appear larger, other times, smaller. She wasn't exactly sure what she was doing, but she was yielding the same results.

Her hand dropped back to her side and she stared at them, her mind thinking... And unless Kazuya would tell her straight up, she would continue thinking, head tilting a bit to the side when she had an idea.

Throwing fireballs was manifesting the Qi energy and physically moving it. But the idea of fire blasts seemed to be largely projecting the energy, forcefully, in a direction. With this in mind, she pointed her palm a bit to the side, still at the ground, and.......?

[Kazuya Hikari]

Becoming apparent to Kazuya that Mitsuki was having trouble with the fire blasts, especially as his instructions seemed to only confuse her, but it was true, in a sense. Firing blasts of fire was the same as fireballs, you had to gather your Qi into your hands, but instead of forming a fireball, you forcefully expel the energy in the form of fire blasts.

As she pointed her palm a bit to the side, still at the ground, her deep thinking was moving her in the right direction. She would succeed in blast fire out of her hand, but as opposed to a concentrated blast of fire, it would come out like a scatter shot, something Kazuya would "see."

"... You are almost there Mitsuki. Once you've gathered your Qi energy into your hands, form the energy into a concentrated form, and then forcefully expel the energy outwards, the blasts of fire. The streams of flames follow the same method, instead of a blast, form the energy into a stream to be expelled at a continuous rate. Try firing the blasts again."

[Mitsuki Park]

Mitsuki carefully listened to his instructions and focused her Qi, concentrating the raw energy, increasing its density.

And then expelled.

KA-POW.

The force of the blast from her palm made the Asian stagger back a couple steps. The fire literally shot out of her palm and straight into the ground, creating a mini-mini storm of dirt to fly up into the air. And, just to make sure the blast wasn't something she did out of pure luck, she did it a second time with her opposite hand- again, at the ground.

She exhaled slowly. She was sweating, and physically she was already exhausted. There seriously had to be a better way to transition herself from one Qi to another. Bah. She looked up at Kazuya, either waiting for some sort of sign of approval and a sign to continue, or just further instructions.

[Kazuya Hikari]

"Good, now I want you to fire at me, to grow adjusted to the recoil of the blasts. Once you feel you have grown comfortable with the backlash, we will take a break, and after, if you wish to continue, try and fire streams of fire at the sky to start out. Fire when you are ready, Mitsuki."

His arms crossed in front of his once more, Kazuya would wait. It didn't take a genius to tell she was exhausted, her body temperature had increased, and the heat she was giving off was intense. Not to mention she was probably incredibly dehydrated not just from the demonstration of her copycat Qi. A break was definitely well-needed, which is why he had brought out a huge water dispenser and bottles filled with water before they had begun, because she would need it.

Badly.

[Mitsuki Park]

Another draw of breath, another exhale.

Mitsuki slid her right foot back and raised her right palm up facing Kazuya. She took aim, and within seconds she shot a single blast, arm still recoiling- but at least she didn't stumble back a few steps. She shook her right arm before bringing up her left, and repeated the process. Same result- no stumbling, but still unacquainted with the recoil.

Repeat. Twice.

She slowly crouched to the ground as she took several deep breaths, stopping because she was a) comfortable and b) tired. Learning a new Qi was always a bit difficult. Soon enough, she would push herself back up and, without saying a word to Kazuya, would make herself over to the water dispenser.

Time to rehydrate.

[Kazuya Hikari]

Each blast Mitsuki fired at Kazuya colliding with his cross-shaped arms, once it was apparent to Kazuya she had grown comfortable with the recoil of the fire blasts, he would lower his arms, "watching" Mitsuki push herself up after slowly crouching and head over to the water dispenser. Unlike her, Kazuya was not dehydrated, simply because he had not been using his Qi, and would give her a good ten to fifteen minute break. While Mitsuki rested and recuperated, Kazuya would head off to a secluded area of the field, to try a new technique of his Qi. Pointing both hands down at the ground, he would fire off a small but concentrated stream of flames, to push himself off the ground, and try to levitate.

Suffice to say, his first attempt was absolutely horrible, he managed to hover briefly in the air... before promptly falling to the ground, landing on his back.

"... Ow..."

Picking himself up, he'd try again, hovering briefly in the air, and while doing so, would try to fire a stream of flames from his feet, to propel himself upwards, which worked a little while, before he tumbled to the ground again, though he would roll as he met the ground, ending up on his back again, but not as painfully as before.

"... This is going to take a while..."

[Mitsuki Park]

OOC: Uh, not sure if 'secluded' means that Mitsuki can't see Kaz anymore, but going to assume that.

She grabbed a drink - or several - and was taking her sweet, sweet time recuperating. She watched as Kazuya made his way to a secluded part of the field 'til she could no longer see him before settling herself on the ground. She held the cool drink in her hands, appreciating the light breeze in the area. Eyes slid closed and she held the appearance of sleep, but she was fully conscious and aware of her surroundings. If she heard the footsteps of Kazuya drawing near, she would stand and they'd probably resume their training.

Though it was a curious thing- that he was blind, but he moved as if he had sight.

[Kazuya Hikari]

(OOC: Generally that's what secluded means. My bad XD)

Giving Mitsuki a well deserved and long break, Kazuya spent his time working on and trying to refine his fire propulsion technique. By the time he made his way back to Mitsuki, roughly forty five minutes later, he had mastered the basics, but it was going to take more training to completely master the technique, something he had no problems with.

"Seeing" Mitsuki stand as he came around the corner, before they resumed, he would get himself a cup of water, to rehydrate himself, resuming his stance with his arms in a cross shape in front of him once he had drained his cup.

"... The next technique you will learn is firing streams of fire from your hands. The formation is identical to fire blasts, but instead of concentrated blasts of fire, it is streams of fire fired at a continuous rate. Begin when you are ready, Mitsuki."