(OOC: Fighting skill please. Judge as you see fit.)

Kaito had gone around searching for someone, who would train him in the ways of the sword since he was still pretty pitiful at sword combat and he figured that what better place to look than the district where the famous Zaraki, Kenpachi had arisen from. While Kaito didn't expect to be made into that caliber of a swordsmen he at least wanted to be able to cut something, he was after all training to become a shinigami. As he walked through the district he had first visited, Kaito looked everyone in the eyes, knowing that this time if some stupid group tried to jump out at him they would meet a completely different Kaito than they had before. "I hope this Nesbit person is still out here and alive for that matter..." he thought listlessly as he continued to stroll through one of the most notoriously dangerous areas of Rukongai. To keep from fighting needlessly, Kaito allowed his reiatsu to leak out of his body, letting anyone who was looking for trouble that they would have a real problem on their hands; that and he wanted to lure this Rab Nesbit person out.

"A wee bit o power like dat and yer flauntin it 'round like yer da king?" Kaito suddenly heard terrible english behind him as he stopped in his tracks at the sound of the person's voice. Sighing, Kaito turned his head, "You're right, I'm pretty weak. I'm just looking for Rab Nesbit so maybe he could teach enough sword techniques so that I can get the hell out of the academy" he explained to the stranger. He noticed through his peripheral vision that the person had a shocked reaction when he had uttered the name Nesbit, "I assume you know of him from your reaction" he calmly assessed out loud so that the person could here him. "Maybe, jus what does a lad like ya want wit a man like dat?" the big man asked his voice, a deep jolly voice that reminded him of a bear for some reason. Kaito smacked his forehead into his hand, "I believe I just explained it to you" he said as he struggled to keep the irritation out of his voice.

The man laughed out loud and patted his belly as if the statement was one of the greatest jokes he had ever heard before, "Yer right, me apologies. In any case yer don found 'im and lesson one starts now" the big, burly man said as he pulled out a blade with a sincere smile on his face. Kaito's mouth opened slightly from the surprise; he hadn't expected the man to come to him so quickly and he also hadn't expected that his first lesson would be so public. "Eh...mister Nesbit...please could we do this somewhere else?" he laughed nervously trying to defuse the situation. In short it failed and the big guy came flying at him with surprising speed for someone so large; Kaito just barely had time to unsheath his own blade and block the attack. "Well, yer an academy student alright" Nesbit quickly assessed of Kaito as the latter struggled to hold off the big guy's attack.

Kaito placed his hand on the back of the blade as he had been taught to do and pushed back Nesbit finally managing to parry the attack, "That guy had me pinned with one arm...he definitely was a lieutenant before" Kaito quickly realized. Nesbit laughed out loud again, "Alrightey then, first lesson yer gonna get. Forget sharpening yer reiastu since ya can't even wield a blade properly yet. Focus on allowing yer fightin style to flow through ya, don't force it" the man explained as he came barreling down upon Kaito. Kaito nodded his head quickly indicating that he would quickly implement the changes that the person in front of him was suggesting, "Alright, let your reiatsu go. Let your fighting style flow..." Kaito told himself. "Come at me now" he said once he felt that he was ready. Nesbit didn't need another prompting as he leaped high into the sky and came crashing down on Kaito with a heavy blade.

Allowing his fighting style to flow, Kaito spun and knocked Nesbit's attack to the side with relative ease. "Der ya go, but don't be gettin to carried away" Nesbit said with much spit flying from his mouth. Kaito narrowed his eyes and watched as the man's muscles gave away the fact that he was about to try and strike with an overhead swing. Immediately Kaito planted his feet firmly into the ground and swung his blade from down blew in an upward slash that would counter Nesbit's attack. The blades clanged loudly as the two combatants slid apart from each other because of the force of their attacks, "Now dats what I'm talkin' bout!" Nesbit said in a jolly fashion as he started towards Kaito once again. Holding his blade in his right hand, Kaito dashed at Nesbit too and once the two met there was a flurry of clangs as the blades struck each other again and again. Kaito blocked three strikes to the head and one to the torso, but he got nicked in the shoulder as Nesbit feinted at the last second managing a strike. "Alright, I'm getting better after all" Kaito thought happily.

Looking across from his opponent, Kaito had at least become a little more confident in his sword fighting capabilities as he stared down the infamous, Rab Nesbit. The hefty guy was not only light on his feet, but his ability to fight with a sword, even one as grubby and beat up as the he held was absolutely astounding. Sighing Kaito tried to come up with the different possibilities that this fight could end in, "I could try and restrain him with Kido. Although it would be worth it if I actually wanted to get training here" Kaito considered as he continued to watch Nesbit. "I suppose I could make things interesting by fighting things out although I'm not sure whether this guy intends to kill me; after all this is Zaraki district" he thought again. He didn't have time to think of any other scenarios because once again Nesbit came barreling down on him with fire in his eyes and a smile on his face. Kaito sighed again, "Looks like I have no choice..." he realized as Nesbit spun left and swung at Kaito's torso.

Facing the blade downward into the ground Kaito managed to deflect the attack away from his body, but like last time he was sent flying a couple of inches from the strength of the strike. "Use yer head, don'tcha go tryin to take on me attacks without bracin ya self wit reiatsu, boy" the burly man said as he rested his blade against his broad shoulder. While Kaito was irritated and no longer wanted to keep at this stupid fight he couldn't shake the feeling that he had just been disrespected when Nesbit called him boy. Narrowing his crimson red eyes, Kaito let out all of his reiatsu and tensed his body up for the next assault that he would be delivering upon Nesbit. Watching as the people around him collasped under the weight of his reiatsu, Kaito turned to look at the burly man, who seemed taken aback by the sudden burst of reiatsu that came from Kaito's body. Lifting his blade in front of him horizontally so that it glistened in the sun and said to Nesbit, "Come on, let's see if your reputation still holds true" in a deadly serious tone.

Nesbit laughed which made his beard shake with him as he laughed, but then he quickly regained his composure and responded to Kaito, "Aye laddy. les do see if me rep still 'olds true" he said in a hearty voice. Kaito didn't wait for anymore words to leave the big guy's mouth as he dashed for him with complete focus and determinaton to mutilate him, "I guess I'll have to show you then..." he said in his mind. When he was right in front of Nesbit Kaito pumped reiatsu into his legs and leaped into the air, his blade again glinting in the sun. Using momentum to his advantage Kaito flipped his head towards his heel starting a front flip that was making its way towards Nesbit, who just stood there waiting for the attack. Kaito's spin ended with him swinging his blade over his head and down upon Nesbit with enormous force, but Nesbit parried the attack with a grunt pushing Kaito to the left with his counter. Kaito had begun to breath hard, "Well this is certainly not what I had in mind when I started for him" he thought as his muscles burned from the effort of the continued fight.

Refusing to give in to his burnt out muscles, Kaito once again dipped into the reserves of his body as he had done many times before and pumped reiatsu into his legs in an effort to stimulate them once again. Before he knew it Nesbit had come at him and was swinging at him with an horizontal slash that was think with reiatsu. Kaito clenched his teeth as he raised his own blade to try and counter the powerful attack, "Dammit, I wish I could just use a strategy to take him down, but I have to get better at swordplay..." he cursed under his breath. Managing to stop the attack, Kaito felt as the rest of the damage from the swing crashed into a nearby building, "You've gotta be kidding me" Kaito whispered in an awed voice. Suddenly he felt his feet being pushed back through the dirt and he clenched his teeth and tried to push back against Nesbit, but to no avail.

Nesbit grunted as he began to gain the upper hand in the situation, Kaito's feet were giving way inch by inch and there wasn't anything that he could do about it. Then he got an idea that would utilize him being blown away by the attack, but he also realized that if he took damage from the attack that he wouldn't have much fight left in him after that, "I still have no choice, but that" he determined. He let Nesbit's swing throw him into the building that had already been damaged earlier by the force of the attack, but as he sailed through the air, Kaito began gathering reiatsu throughout his body mostly his legs. As Nesbit disappeared from sight because of the smoke and debris Kaito was thrown into, Kaito readied himself to bounce off the side of the building and spring back at Nesbit with an even greater attack. Just when Kaito thought that he had it all figured out, his body refused to obey him and went limp on him. The seconds drew closer as he was about to crash into the side of the building.

"Dammit..." he cursed as he turned his head just enough to see the building wall rushing at him from behind, "Come on...Come on...Come on" he pleaded with his body trying to will it into motion. At the last possible second, Kaito let out a roar and reiatsu poured into every corner of his being enabling him to plant his feet into the side of the building. Using reiatsu Kaito exploded back towards Nesbit at ferocious speed with his blade cocked for one final, devastating slash, "Now is the time to end this" Kaito thought. Nesbit came into view and Kaito could see the surprise on his face as Kaito's body came whistling through the air at him; to Kaito, the world seemed to have slowed down once again, to the point were seconds were minutes and minutes were hours. He focused on Nesbit as he closed in on the burly target while he was pushing the last of his reiatsu into the blade in his hands and arms. Letting out a roar, Kaito slashed at Nesbit with everything he had and Nesbit countered with a slash of his own. There was a loud boom as the two blades hit and Kaito felt as the pellets of dust flew up in the air, but none of that mattered as he fell to the ground fading into unconsciousness.

Kaito woke up in a rundown shanty house with bandages all over his body and he felt as if he were totured for several hours with no break, "Whose house am I waking up in now?" Kaito wondered as he scratched his head trying to figure where he was. Out of nowhere a booming voice from a place that he couldn't see called out to him, "Yer in me own 'edquaters lad. Dat was quite da fight ya put up out dere" he heard from the very recognizable voice of the man, who had placed Kaito in this condition in the first place. Sitting up right Kaito tried to decide whether it was safe or not to be in the big guy's house, especially since it was a big guy that he couldn't handle in a one on one battle, "Maybe if I'm lucky, he'll give me some more fighting tips and then I can be on my way" he wishfully thought. Without warning Rab Nesbit, former lieutenant of the Gotei 13 walked through the ruddy doorway with a big smile on his face, "Well laddy, I've decided that I'm gonna train ya" he announced to Kaito.

Not knowing whether to be happy or miserable, Kaito simply stared at Nesbit with a look of complete lack of enthusiasm as an awkward moment of silence passed between the two. Nesbit rubbed his hairy face uncomfortably as if he wasn't sure what he was supposed to do, but then he broke the silence and laughed in a jolly fashion, "Well, don't jus sit der. Get to yer feet boy! We got work to do!" he exclaimed excitedly as he walked out clutching his blade as if it were an invaluable treasure. Kaito moaned audibly as he threw the covers off his body and got to his feet slowly just in case there was still any damage left over from his first in encounter with Rab Nesbit, "This is gonna be awful..." he cried inwardly as he dragged his feet to put his academy white and blue kimono and obi on. As he pulled the sleeves on with as much slowness as he could add to his motion, Kaito thought of different ways that he could escape this terrible fate and simply run back to Sereitei without having to do directly face the burly ex-lieutenant. He immediately dismissed them not because his honor wouldn't permit to do such a thing, but because he realized that running away would mean more work for him than if he simply trained with Nesbit.

Once he was dressed Kaito made his way outside, dragging his feet through the dirt causing angry red swirls that ascended to the sky to assail him and his eyes; after coughing a couple of times and wiping the tears away from his eyes Kaito regarded Nesbit. "First we are gonna start wit ya counter which from what I could tell ya don't have any" the burly said as he pounced on Kaito, with his zanpakutou raised in the air in preparation of an attack. Unsheathing his own blade almost instanteneously, Kaito brought his blade up into the air horizontally so that he could defend against the heavy assault that Nesbit was raining down on him. The weight of the strike nearly brought Kaito to his knees as he began pumping huge amounts of reiatsu into his legs so that they wouldn't buckle underneath him, "Push me off and take da winda o' opportunity to attack me. That is what a counter is. Taking advantage of yer opponent's lack of control over da situation" Nesbit said as he bared down even more on Kaito. Kaito's face twisted in exertion as he opened his left eye to stare at Nesbit to see if the big guy was serious and once he assessed that there was no hint of the jolly fat fool he had come to know, Kaito pushed Nesbit back as he jacked up the amount of reiatsu going to his legs.

"Take advantage of your opponent's lack of control over the situation..." Kaito pondered as he quickly regained his balance from pushing away Rab and channeled reiatsu into his legs once again as he prepared to counter attack Nesbit. Leaping at the flailing big man, Kaito slashed diagonally from his right shoulder down to his left torso in an attempt to split the burly guy in half. To his dismay Nesbit was all, but overmatched as he quickly parried Kaito's, knocking Kaito back and now flailing, "Now let me show ya what a real counter attack is boy" the burly man said with a deadly glint in his eye. Suddenly Kaito saw a blade bearing down upon him emitting a whistling noise because of the incredible amount of momentum that it had picked up and Kaito barely had enough time to raise up his blade to block that attack that would have taken off his head. Kaito struggled just to hold the match at a standstill as Nesbit was slowly gaining ground on him and there was nothing that he could do about it, "Dammit, I should have taken my chances just not being able to fight" he grunted miserable. Suddenly he was knocked flying into a building and Kaito landed on the kitchen table, "At least I didn't get impaled by the salad knife" he joked ruefully as he attempted to get up.

"Come on boy, ya got more in ya than that I hope" Nesbit goaded Kaito, which was the only way that he ever got serious about a fight it would simply be because of the fact that someone had challenged him or given him some sort of motivation to fight to the best of his abilities. Suddenly reiatsu poured out of Kaito's being and Nesbit had to shield his eyes from all the debris that was being pushed away because of it, "Dat's quite some reiatsu ya got der laddy, but it don't make a lick o' difference if ya can't battle with a sword" Nesbit goaded. Hearing this Kaito brought his blade to his heart as he prepared once again to charge at the enemy in front of him with nothing less than his maximum power, "I will...win", although what he was winning Kaito had no idea what the reward would be.

once again...i'm left almost speechless, really nice post
+4 fighting skill

(OOC: This is for spirit power please. Judge as you see fit.)

Kaito continued his training for that day in much the same fashion that it had started; he just couldn't seem to push the big guy as hard as he wanted to for some reason. While Kaito was willing to acknowledge that Rab Nesbit was a fighter of great ability, Kaito himself couldn't live with the fact that he couldn't stand up to the former lieutenant at all. That just wasn't acceptable to him and it began to take a toll on his fighting as the fire that he had started with pretty much was dosed by the end of the day. Rab finally told him to stop because if they continued any further he would lose his temper and forget that Kaito was a promising talent; in other words because of Kaito's poor fighting resolve, Rab Nesbit probably would have ended up killing him eventually. This didn't affect Kaito as much as he thought it would have since he had been working so hard lately, but it seems that his laziness still plagued him and for the most part he was fine with that; it was just a certain desire had compelled him to seek out this training.

The next morning Kaito was snatched by the collar by a meaty, clammy hand right out of bed and thrown to the ground so that when he was finally able to rub the sleep out of his eyes he found himself staring up at the muscularly fat, Rab Nesbit, "What...what does this guy want so early in the morning?" he wondered with a tear in his eye. "I gotta different training fer ya lad...since it seems ya lost yer steel last time we gots to work on ya bit..." he said as he stared down at Kaito with a solemn look on his face. Then he reached down and once again hoisted the boy on his shoulder, walking him outside into the bright sun for to begin the unknown training that he had in mind. Kaito didn't really resist since it was so early in the morning and he had been having a nice dream where he was in the hot tub with some of Sereitei's finest looking ladies, but then he was rudely awakened. Dangling on the bigger man's shoulder, Kaito wondered what kind of training he would be put through, but as they passed through the door way of the shanty he saw a blade and he immediately knew something was up.

"Ossan, what's going on here?" Kaito asked as Nesbit placed him in front of a wooden post and began to tie his hands with some firm looking ropes, "Ara? Yo, ossan...seriously what's going on?" Kaito asked as he watched the old man tie his limbs to the post firmly. Nesbit tugged on the rope for good measure to make sure that it was secure before he walked towards the blade and removed it from his sheath, "It's the next level of yer training...I've taught ya basic swordsmanship, but ya still got a ways to go..." he said with an edge in his voice. With the blade in his hand, Nesbit raised his arm over his head making the blade glint dangerously in the sun as he continued, "I'm gonna carve ya up and see how strong yer desire to live is...then we can continue training..." he said as he slashed down nearly splitting Kaito in two. Kaito let out an unholy wail as the blood from his being splashed in a streak that just missed Nesbit and his clothing, but this all seemed to go unnoticed to the big man as he raised his blade horizontally and slashed again causing another wail to escaped from Kaito's being. His thoughts were becoming blurry, but he knew he was asking my the guy was doing this and how could it possibly be serving to help him get stronger, "It looks like...Nesbit may prove his word and kill me..." he thought dizzily as his body continued to take the skewering that Nesbit dished out.

Kaito woke up still tied to the post and his wounds festering in the sun as he stared with half open eyes at the ground in front of him wondering how much time had passed since he lost consciousness and then he heard Nesbit's voice, "Ya have been out a day and half...just a little more time and ya should be good". It felt as if his body had given up trying to keep him alive as he drooped in an out of consciousness for long periods of time and didn't know when or where he was half the time he was conscious. After what seemed an eternity, Kaito felt hands untying him from the post and he dropped to the ground not even bothering to catch himself as he hit the dirt hard due to the exhaustion and nausea that he was feeling. Dust spewed in his face as his blade dropped into the dirt beside him and he heard the booming voice say, "Now, yer gonna learn ta draw power out of yerself even when ya gots none left. That's where ev'ry swordsmen worth a toadstool starts der training". Kaito managed to drag his right hand and place it on his blade as he struggled to his feet not knowing what to expect, "So...what are...we doing...?" Kaito asked with his head bobbing up and down as he tried to keep from toppling over from the delirium caused by losing huge amounts of blood.

Rab looked at Kaito with impassive eyes as he ruthlessly said, "Er we go...redy yer self lad" and charged at Kaitoi with the look of a swordsmen that was out to do serious damaga, but Kaito couldn't move a muscle much less defend himself from the man. To show that he was serious, Rab struck Kaito full in the chest with a powerfully upper slash which sent Kaito sailing through the air and he landed on his back with a thud, "I'm going to die if I don't do something now..." Kaito thought as he lay motionless on the ground. Rab leaped into the air with his blade pointing downward, clearly Nesbit intended to impale Kaito if he didn't find the strength to move, but Kaito didn't move; more truthfully Kaito couldn't move because of how tattered his body was from bleeding out for three days straight in the hot sun. Inches away from giving up Kaito laid down thinking about how he had almost graduated, the new people he had met, and most importantly wondering what the reason for that he had wanted to live. The last part made Kaito open his eyes for the first time, he wasn't here just to simply get stronger or seek out some hasbin lieutenant; Kaito had come here because he needed to gain the strength to find out what the purpose of his existence was. With that thought coursing through his veins, he rolled away as Rab's attack came raining down on him with incredible power causing the dust specks to fly through the air in response to the increase force.

Reiatsu began leaking from Kaito's body and he could feel the air around the clearing change as the weight of his reiatsu began to come to full fruition, "I-I have to...find...that reason" he stammered as he looked dazedly at Nesbit, who was smiling. "Well den, les get ya good nuff to find that reason" the burly man assured him as he heaved the blade from the ground and took off after Kaito in a mad dash. Kaito raised his blade so that he could deflect Nesbit's attack, but once again he felt the sting of a blade cutting through his body and he was thrown back a couple of feet as his heels dragged on the ground. Blood dripping from the wound, it made a trail that led back to where Kaito was standing; his breathing heavy as he began to feel the exhaustion from trying to keep his bleeding under control by compacting his wounds with reiatsu. His lungs were burning as he stood wobbling back and forth trying to keep from passing out, "Stop shaking...dammit" he muttered to himself. Closing his eyes, Kaito pulled out every ounce of power that he had left and stood up tall as he called out to Rab Nesbit, "Show me the power of a swordsmen then" he said as he drew forth even more power than he had initially thought he had at his disposal when he initially started the training with Rab.

(Fighting skill here please. Thank you)

With a little more fight in him, Kaito eyed Nesbit with a murderous intent that he had never felt present before in his being, but the most curious part about the feeling was that he felt as if it made his blade sharper. Not that Kaito had reached out and touched his blade, but he instinctively knew that his zanpakutou's blade was sharper than it was just a few moments ago and he couldn't deny the feeling of control that had taken a hold of him. Throwing himself completely to the feeling that had taken control over his being, Kaito ran at Nesbit with no sense of strategy; he was attacking Nesbit without throwing out different scenarios and thinking of a way to overcome the disadvantage that he had faced when fighting Nesbit. "What am I doing? This isn't like me at all...yet at the same time...it feels so right..." he thought as he watched as his blade gracefully sliced through the air and cut into Nesbit's shoulder with ease. Something that had seemed almost impossible for him to do just moments ago had just been accomplished with nothing more than the flick of the wrist, "This reiatsu...this feeling...is this...is this resolve?" Kaito asked himself.

Kaito pirouetted as Nesbit tried to retaliate with a powerful horizontal slash that should have sent Kaito sailing through the air, "Not only can I see, but I know I can stop it. I don't need a strategy to fight this guy...I need resolve..." he realized as he used the momentum from his pirouette and struck Nesbit's blade in mid-slash. The blades glinted in the air as a huge sum of reiatsu was released from the exchange and Nesbit slid back a few feet as did Kaito, but the difference in their demeanor told anyone who watched the fight the victor of that clash. "I'll be...looks like ya 'ound yer resolve dere lad" Nesbit laughed which caused his rather elegant stomach to bounce along with the laugh, "Don't be gettin all cocky now, I ben holdin back in case ya couldn't 'andle it...I'll be a wee bit more serious this time..." he said as light glinted of his pupil creating a dangerous look for the man. Normally Kaito would have been trying to figure out whether or not he had the strength to continue fighting Nesbit or how he could finish things quickly so that he could avoid taking more damage, but now none of those things crossed his mind. In truth, the only thing that he could see clear as day in his mind was his blade itching to cut someone with the power that was held within it, "I see...I've kept you waiting...well then allow my resolve to speak through my sword..." he whispered into the air as the wind picked up from the sudden increase of reiatsu being exuded from his body.

The air seemed to be rushing in some sort of current around Kaito as his body seemed to fill with knew life as he stared over at Rab Nesbit, who didn't seem to be surprised at all by what he was seeing and this made Kaito dip even more into the new instinct that he had found within himself. Not waiting for Nesbit to make his move any longer Kaito pressed his feet into the ground and gathered reiatsu into them to the point where the ground seemed to cave in from the amount of power he had gathered there. Finally when the reiatsu had reached its peak, Kaito let it explode which sent him flying at Nesbit at a high speed and it felt as if he were flying for a second as he brought his sword to his left side by his hip in preparation for the collision of swords that was going to occur. When he was finally close enough to Rab, he planted his feet into the ground and sliced upward at the giant who dodged it with more nimbleness than a person would expect from someone his size. Rab was no amateur and when he said that he was getting serious he had meant it, Kaito had expected it to be this way, but Rab was not only keeping up with his new fighting ability, but he was even pushing Kaito reach even deeper into himself to draw out more strength. With three quick thrusts Kaito had managed to push Nesbit into the wall of his house, but then the man brought his blade over his head and attempted to cleave Kaito, leaving him no other choice except jumping back.

After two long leaps, Kaito created enough distance for himself where he could at least see what exactly Rab Nesbit was planning to do for a counter attack before it was too late. The hilt of the zanpakutou was quivering in Kaito's left hand as he felt a rush now, "This isn't adrenaline...I never get that sort of feeling...and this is more than just resolve..." he wondered as excitement took over and a smile crept onto his face. Nesbit leaped into the air, so high in fact that when Kaito looked up the sun blinded him which forced him to look away for just a second, but he quickly looked back in time to see Nesbit bringing down a one-handed kill strike at him. Still smiling Kaito brought his blade in front of his face just as the hay maker landed causing his knees to buckle slightly, but it didn't matter as Kaito spun, throwing Nesbit's blade off of his own and then proceeded to counter strike Nesbit at his knees. Nesbit also seemed to find the experience quite enjoyable as a blood drunk grin sprung up on his own face as he blocked Kaito's attack, but still received a small wound on his neck from being to slow in blocking the attack. The two swords quivered as the owners pushed with all their might trying to gain the advantage, "Nesbit...looks like you finally found out that I don't have such a pathetic resolve after all" Kaito said as he looked up at the burly man, who didn't respond with anything utter than a smiling war cry as he pushed back even harder on Kaito's blade.

They stayed at this stalemate for a couple more seconds before both leaping away and this time Kaito didn't land completely on his feet, rather he landed on the balls of his feet which allowed him to quickly spring right back at Nesbit who was standing there smiling completely defenseless. Kaito didn't care about him being defenseless because Nesbit was an expert swordsmen so there really wasn't such a thing as him being defenseless, "I'll strike his sword hand so that I won't have trouble with his power..." he decided. Swinging his blade with wild abandon Kaito let out a maniacal laugh that was completely out of his nature as he aimed a deadly swing at Nesbit's shoulder; in Kaito's mind he had already imagined the arm flying off through the air and landing with a sickening thump on the ground. Suddenly Nesbit held up his left hand signaling Kaito to stop which was hard because Kaito had picked up so much momentum so he ended up falling on his face and his sword was only inches away from impaling him. Breathing a sigh of relief as he stared at the blade on the ground he felt a heavy yet reassuring hand on his should, "Dat's what ya call resolve lad...Come on lesh go eat" the man said as he turned towards the house leaving Kaito to pick himself up.

Awesome!

+2 to Spirit Power

+2 to Fighting Skill

(Spirit Power please. Sorry about the poor quality this time...I wrote it as I was falling asleep...Thank you)

Kaito's breathing had slowed to dull pace which was essentially indicative of the state he was in as the burst of reiatsu that came from his newly discovered resolve finally wore down; his movements slowed, his wounds ached, but even with these odds he continued to fight. It seemed as if Nesbit's power had grown rather decreased along with Kaito and his attacks had much more precision than Kaito had remembered them ever having before, "Shit...it's like he got faster and stronger all...of a sudden..." he struggled to keep his thoughts coherent. Rab flew at him once again and now his reiatsu was visibly flowing around him in torrents of blue spiritual energy as he raised his blade once again preparing to strike the young shinigami who was on his last legs. Near the point of being unable to move, Kaito watched as the blur that was Rab Nesbit flew towards him at deafening speed, but at the last moment Kaito was able to will his blade up in the air so that he could defend himself from the blow. The defense was hardly perfect as the blow from Rab sent Kaito sailing through the air and then crashing on his back into the dirt; blood spewed from his mouth free as the damage continued to increase upon his innards. Laying down flat on the ground Kaito had resigned himself to giving up when suddenly he saw the flash of a blade over him and once again felt as the cold steel carved his body open.

Losing consciousness from the initial strike, Kaito's eyes rolled into his head as his body tried to subdue the pain that was screaming for him to discontinue that actions that he was currently taking. He came back to his senses when he heard Nesbit laughing, not his usual kind hearted laugh, but a laugh that was both cruel as it was emotionless; in truth Kaito had not thought that the man could be so ruthless in his fighting. "It's easy ain't it lad?...It's easy when ya r'solve is pummin through ya veins and kickin ya in ta overdrive...the real 'ight starts hen ya can't feel dat power in ya anym're. Get up!" the burly man said to Kaito as he walked towards him menacingly once again with his flashing blade in his hands. Suddenly Kaito watched the surreal moment as the blade came crashing down upon him once again, attempting to take away his life with the next blow and Kaito couldn't accept things happening in that manner, "No...I can't die here...my reason...MY REASON..." he kept screaming in his head as he tried to convince his body to move. Finally he managed to bring his blade directly between Nesbit's blade and his own throat, just barely preventing the finishing blow of a savage assault from taking him down for good. "Lad, yer gonna half to do a wee bit better dan dat..." Nesbit said as he poured into his blade trying to cut the boy in half which he have very well succeeded in with the way his body was feeling at the moment.

Each breath that Kaito took seemed to take hours to complete and his lungs could never get the air fast enough as he pushed back feebly against the blade of the ex-lieutenant, "What am I doing? No, I'm not done, not now...still have to find it..." he motivated himself. Suddenly the air began to rush around him and Kaito pulled more strength forth to push back Rab Nesbit a few inches which seemed to make Rab laughed because he reared his head back only stopping to pour another wave of unbelievable reiatsu. Managing to lift Nesbit's blade just centimeters from his throat Kaito began to feel the cost of exerting himself in such a pitiful state; his vision began to shake and he was starting to lose feeling in his arm as he pushed up against Nesbit's power. With one final yell, Kaito was able to throw the heavy blade away from his body giving him time to catch the breath that would never seem to come, "Geez...I wonder what's it gonna take to become captain and kill this guy..." he contemplated. Nesbit had been pushed back a few feet at this point and was now shaking with blood drunk madness as his eyebrows now fixed themselves in a sinister manner as they bore their gaze down into this being trying to break his spirit.

As Kaito struggled to his feet with liters of blood dripping from his body as if he were a rain cloud that had taken in too much condensation from the air around it, he noticed something that was truly interesting in that it could mean that his strength was potentially at its end. His breathing which of course had increased to a major rate as he tottered on his feet in an attempt to avoid taking on anymore attacks that would surely put him out of the fight since he felt that he still had to prove something. The world lost all color and was entrenched in shadows as Kaito's consciousness slowly left him with only a vague sense of what was going on; the only thing that he was sure of was that he had to defeat Rab Nesbit at all costs. Hearing had ceased to matter for Kaito as he drove each foot into the ground as if it was his last step before he was going to die, but he continued to step even though he felt now power flowing through his being, "I-I don't feel anything now...just pain...pure and unfiltered" Kaito thought as he continued his mad dash towards Nesbit. Kaito felt his mouth forming a blood curdling yell as he pushed into the air on his overused leg muscles as he gripped his blade in both hands hoping that the next thing that was cut by him would go down with no chance of getting up once again. Even as he flew through the air, Kaito wondered what this feeling was; it was unlike resolve which heightened your senses and gave you a better understanding of yourself while granting you the power to achieve the potential you receive.

Finally as he brought the blade over his head he saw Nesbit look at him grimly as the blade that he held cleaved through his body in mid-air stopping his attack with no difficulty at all, "What just happened..." Kaito thought as he fell to the ground with nothing to save him at all. A gash streaked across his chest cavity, making it even harder to breath than it was already for him which is why he had wanted to give up in the first place. The ground received his lifeless body with no remorse as it bounced him in the air upon his landing leaving him to fall with no aid, not even the soft patter of the ground to show that at the very least mother earth had no grace to spare. Raising his blood-ridden head as he looked at Nesbit, the man laughed and was shocked that he was still alive, "Ya definitely r a trouble some one" Nesbit said to him, "Ya should lay down to rest and catch yer breath" he heard the guy's voice to take a break "...because the people that are going to defeat ya will not leave ya much time to rest". To Kaito it didn't matter and he needed to find that purpose so that he could continue living; not staying grumpy and its okay since Kaito didn't need to to give up so easily if he didn't want to and he was going to use his keen his sense of knowledge and wisdom to become stronger in may way.

+3 fighting skill lol

(Spirit power please. Thank you judges.)

Although Kaito was sure that Nesbit's advice to rest for while was correct, he couldn't just let go of the fact that he wanted so badly to continue to be able to test the strength of his will power and determination since he always came off as lazy. Turning over so that he was now laying upon his belly, Kaito placed both his palms upon the ground and struggled to push himself up off the ground, "Sorry, Nesbit-san, but if you need a break then you are going to have to take one. As for me I'm not even half tired yet..." the boy bluffed. Even as Kaito stood facing the behemoth of a man that was not just strong, but he was also a skilled swordsmen which was something that Kaito couldn't even pretend to be as his legs wobbled back and forth in front of Rab. Kaito took one unsure footstep towards Nesbit and then he raised the blade so that it pointed directly down the center of Nesbit's image from Kaito's view point. The burly man didn't make a single move from where he was sitting on his haunches watching Kaito as if he were a small child who was attempting something that was well beyond his reach.

Rab Nesbit stood up, slinging his katana of his left shoulder he let out a booming laugh that Kaito was sure would wake everyone in the entire village up, "Yer pretty sassy, I'll give ya that laddy!" he said at the top of his lungs. Even with Kaito's determination being enough to force his muscles to move once again despite the fact that the was past his limit; Kaito couldn't believe that the ex-lieutenant didn't seem to show the least signs of fatigue in his demeanor which meant that he was perfectly capable of dishing out more punishment on Kaito. The image of Rab Nesbit shook in many directions as Kaito stood wavering in his spot, but he refused to allow his body to give in to the dead weight feeling that was coursing through his veins. Nesbit took a couple of steps towards the wobbling Kaito and it seemed as if his eyes were full of concern for Kaito's well being, "Lad...ya realize wit dem cuts all over ya...fightin' tis'nt really gonna be easy for ya..." the man said in sincerity. While Kaito was normally the lazy type of guy that hated to do work and hated to do anything that reminded him of doing work, he wasn't going to just let things rest as they were because if he didn't do this then his entire existence would be a waste.

Knowing that Nesbit would begin to slacken the level of his fighting if he thought that Kaito couldn't handle it, Kaito decided that he would provoke Nesbit into getting even more serious than he already was for the sake of getting stronger. "Well, I guess if you are some washed up old man who has no better reason to live, but to eat shit the rest of his life in the Rukongai area then sure I should take a rest..." he taunted boldly between breaths. The look on Nesbit's face went from one of sincerity and concern to a look of a stone blooded killer with no emotion for the victims of his warpath. Without saying a word, the burly man exhibited his nimbleness as he sprinted towards the injured Kaito with no intentions of holding back on the shinigami who was only inches away from death, "That's it...Nesbit-san...come at me with everything" he laughed under his breath. Suddenly it was as if Nesbit disappeared from in front of Kaito's very eyes and so he was stunned when he felt the weight of a blade sink into his flesh; the weight alone was enough to floor him in his current state.

Through will power Kaito was able to continue standing after absorbing the vicious blow that Rab Nesbit had delivered upon him, but he knew that even his will power would give up on him eventually if he kept on taking in heavy attacks like the previous one. Blood continued to gush out of the freshly made wound and as more of it flowed out, Kaito's vision began to blur even more, "I...can't...even feel...the hil...t...of my zanpakutou" he thought as he stumbled forward from leaning too much. Falling into the dirt with his face meant that Kaito now had gritty dirt in between his teeth and on his kimono, but these were among the least of his worries as he tried to stand once again so that he could face Nesbit for the next round of the fight. When Kaito finally made his way to his feet he found that he could no longer stand straight up, but now he was hunched over and his lungs felt as if they were on fire which was because the slash from Rab Nesbit had also cut open one of his lungs. Gasping for air, Kaito still wouldn't give in to the weakness that flowed at a rapid rate through his body; he was determined to prove that his body was capable of withstanding attacks from even a legendary lieutenant of the Gotei 13.

He felt air rushing behind him and it was the kind of wind rush that could only be caused by the movement of another person so Kaito assumed that Rab Nesbit had made his way behind him, "Ya done yet lad? At this rate yer gonna die from too much loss o blood..." the ex-shinigami explained. Kaito was going to turn around and at least attempt to swing at him when he felt the tip of a blade resting just lightly against his back, "...Don't think fer a second that I'm going to allow ya to cut me when ya ain't ready to..." said the voice behind him. Knowing that he was going to receive one of the most thorough beatings of his life, Kaito didn't care as he rolled forward with his last ounces of energy that he managed to squeeze out of his body at the last second. Once he stopped rolling he raised himself on one knee only to see Rab Nesbit's huge frame blocking out the sun, "Dammit...even though my will power brought me far...my level of skill isn't anywhere near enough..." he thought as he watched the blade slice through the sky towards him. The moment that the blade cut through Kaito was the same moment that Kaito felt his mind begin to numb and he passed out before ever falling completely on the ground, but he still kept a firm grip on the hilt of his zanpakutou.

Excellent Job of pushing your character to his limits.

+3 to Spirit

(Spirit power please. Thank you judges)

Kaito's body writhed a bit as he stumbled into consciousness, "Where am I?" he asked as he brought his hand up into the air to block the overwhelming light that came crashing in through his pupils. As Kaito moved he realized that his arms, legs ,and torso had all been bandaged up which brought him back to the memory of going head to head with the ex-lieutenant, Rab Nesbit. As if Kaito's thoughts summoned the old man, Rab came walking through the room door with a wet rag in his hands, "Well, looky what we got 'ere" he said in a hearty tone that didn't belie the vicious warrior underneath the care free exterior. Sighing as he dropped his head back onto the pillow on the bed, Kaito asked the large man bluntly, "Nesbit-san, just how long have I been knocked out cold?". As if Kaito had said one of the funniest jokes in the world, Rab Nesbit began to laugh uncontrollably before he managed to splutter out, "Ya ben out fer bout a week laddy...ya should 'eally learn to quit while yer ahead" the man finished.

Embarrassed Kaito turned his head away from the man not wanting the shame to show on his face when he suddenly felt a sweaty, meaty palm yank him off the bed and onto the floor, "Just what the he-" Kaito began to say as he scrambled to his feet. He caught a glance at the expression that was anything, but playful so he decided that he would stop and listen to whatever it was that the man came up with next. "Yer resolve has improved lots, but we do have a wee bit of a trouble with yer stamina..." Rab started, "so fer da next training, ya will practice swinging this sword" he finished as he pointed to a blade with what looked like a heavy, blunt edge. Kaito looked back at the face of the lieutenant to see if he was serious or not, but as far as Kaito could tell the man was not joking about the training where he continued to swing a sword aimlessly for nothing short of 16 hours straight. Sighing Kaito walked over to the stick as he prepared to start his training, but as soon as he grabbed the hilt of the blade, he immediately felt the force of the blade's weight resisting his picking it up.

After many heave-ho attempts Kaito managed to drag the blade outside the door and not before he shot Rab Nesbit several looks of irritation, "If and when I do get stronger than you the first thing I will do will be to flog you good...you bastard..." he said with much venom in his voice. Breathing several times so that he could clear his mind's eye and prepare to begin the training with the sword Kaito opened his eyes again and attempted to swing the blade over his head. While Kaito did managed to swing the huge black blade upward the momentum of his swing brought his further back than he had wanted to so he ended up stammering backwards for another five to six steps as he grunted to maintain control of his balance. With the huge, weighted blade edge behind his body, Kaito pulled hard with his triceps causing them to flex when he pulled the blade upward which was good because Kaito's lower back was already beginning to get stiff. Once the blade came crashing down in a diagonal fashion and Kaito felt the immense amount of power that he swung with, but Kaito is sure that it was simply a matter of his lack of focusing upon the control of sword fighting technique.

The blade was weighing his arm down and he could feel with each swing that the reiatsu was being sucked from his body as he attempted to raise the heavy blade to swing once again, "Even if it's just swinging it through the air there is no way that I can fight with this thing..." Kaito exasperatedly thought. "Dat's a problem since dat's da blade dat ya will be using to continue da training against me with" Nesbit said without a glint of sympathy in his eye, "Think lad...if ya can manage to swing dat blade den imagine how much stronger ya will be?" he said as he glared intently at Kaito. The young shinigami tried to bring his rapid breaths under control as he once again swung the heavy blade in his hand into an upright position. As it had done many times before the momentum and weight of the blade made him stagger backwards and it took almost all his strength to simply hold it in place without toppling to the ground, "This...this is ridiculous...how can I learn to fight with this blade if I can't even hold it?" Kaito asked himself. Looking over, Kaito could see Nesbit staring at him intently as if evaluating whether the young shinigami would give up or not and this made Kaito dig within himself to pull forth whatever stamina he had left within himself.

His face twisting in effort Kaito leaped into the air and brougth the blade down in a downward, but controlled swing towards the ground holding his swing so that the blade hung inches above the ground when he actually landed. The strain of having to actually bear the brunt of the blade's weight exacted a heavy toll upon Kaito's body as he felt his upper arm muscles screaming in agony upon the landing. Shaking his head, beads of sweat flew in all directions as he once again focused himself to the task of learning to use the heavy sword as if it were a normal katana for him to use, but he could still feel the shaking of his muscles. This time Kaito swung diagonally starting from the left and then stopping the blade a little ways above the ground again reversed his swing as he pirouetted on his heels in a spinning strike. Driving his foot into the ground, Kaito stopped and swung his blade diagonally once again, but this time the swing started from the right before he pulled it from striking the earth. At this point Kaito had reached his limit and dropped the heavy blade which crashed into the ground with a thud as he dropped to his knees struggling to drawn in deep breaths into his lungs, "Not good nuff lad...not good nuff" he heard Nesbit mutter. Kaito knew this was the start of a very long and painful training session.

+3 Fight Skill!!!! Nuff said lol XP

(Spirit power please. Thank you judges)

After a brief moment to catch his breath, Kaito got up to continue trying to synchronize his body with the weight of the heavy sword although he knew that it was going to take more than just having to swing it around before he would fully gain a purchase on how to use the heavy blade. Even though he knew this he also realized that there wasn't much training that he could do besides that since it took an effort just for him to hold the blade with both hands, "Damn...how am I going to get strong enough to hold this thing?" Kaito asked himself as he reached with his right hand to grab the hilt. Trying to conserve energy he tried to shift the hilt which was sticking out of the ground towards him so that he wouldn't actually have to move to pick the blade up, but he quickly found out that things wouldn't go as smoothly as he had hoped it would. Wheeling around to pick the blade up, Kaito caught sight of Nesbit shaking his head in disgust at Kaito's current level of ability with the sword, "Geez...even though I told him, I hate this kind of thing he refuses to see reason and train me some other way..." he sighed. In order to expedite the process of removing the sword from the ground, Kaito quickened his breaths so that his body's biorhythmic rate would increase which would allow more blood flow which in theory should provide him with enough momentum to unearth the gigantic blade.

With one final inhale of breath, Kaito drove his feet into the ground as he braced his legs so that they would act a lever for him to use and pulled upward on the sword as the huge, black blade exploded from the ground glinting in the sunlight leaving a sinister air about it. The blade was now for the most part over Kaito's head which meant that he was very unbalanced which was quickly proven by the fact that he began to stumble backwards from the weight of the sword shifting that way causing him to hop on his left foot as he tried to stop. Grunting as he swung downward with the blade, Kaito managed to regain control of his movements as he held the blade in front of him while he tried to catch his breath once more, "Alright, I have got to get my body used to carrying this load of a sword..." he convinced himself. Bringing the sword up a little bit, Kaito gripped the hilt with both hand firmly as he stood on left heel and pushed with his right foot so that the blade sliced through the a in circular rotation, the momentum being the source of the swing's power. Planting with his right foot, Kaito slid into a stop as he thrust in front of him with all his might and already he felt the tug of pain coming from his abdominal area as he held the blade in place trying not to wince from the pain.

Shifting his feet so that he could quickly change his center of gravity, Kaito readied himself mentally to swing the blade over his head in an arching slash that would allow him to spin and attack, "This is going to be a killer, but if I can't do a simple maneuver like this then I'm seriously going to be in trouble..." Kaito told himself. Letting out a warrior's yell as he flexed his abs and brought the massive blade over his head, Kaito leaped into the air so that the force of the swing would be doubled by the momentum as he swung at the ground with every ounce of muscle that he had available to him. The blade crashed into the ground sending shock waves in every direction as well as causing the ground within the immediate area of Nesbit's humble abode to shake. Struggling to catch is breath Kaito's body wavered back and forth as he no longer had the strength to hold the weight of his own body up; just as he was about to give up and drop to his knees he felt something within his soul that was completely defiant of him giving up. "Dammit..." he cursed as he gripped the blade once more and heaved it out of the ground as he rested it upon his shoulder while turning towards a tree that had been sitting in the middle of Nesbit's background since he had arrived, "Ossan...I'm going to deal with your space problem right now, stop me whenever you want..." he said with a small smile playing at the corners of his mouth.

Gathering strength into every fiber of his being Kaito willed his legs to move despite the weight of the massive blade that was resting upon his shoulder as he put one foot in front of the other with much difficulty since pain shot up his spine with every step that he took. "I c-can't back down...even though it would be much easier to sit down...maybe I should just sit down..." he let the thought of how warm the ground would feel against his back if he simply just dropped the blade and laid on his back so that he could look at the clouds. A meaty hand then placed itself upon the shoulder that was not carrying the blade as a voice made its way into his ear menacingly, "Ya give up kid...and I'll be sure to gut ya worse den I had oridenally intended to..." Nesbit's alcohol laced breath threatened Kaito. While there was no fear in Kaito demeanor, he certainly didn't want to be attacked by Nesbit since that would mean another butchering which was not something that he necessarily looked forward to at the moment. Keeping that in mind the young shinigami bit down upon his bamboo blowpipe and broke into a dash as he made a beeline for the tree in front, gripping the hilt of the blade on his shoulder Kaito prepared to cut the tree down in one swing.

The fact that he didn't use shunpo to close the distance was because his muscles ached with a poisonous pain and further obstructing his ability to fight at full speed was that the weight of the huge blade given to him kept him from being able to move as fast as he normally could. Now the tree was only a couple of steps from him, but Kaito could feel his strength giving out with each step; in truth he wasn't sure if he would even be able to cut the tree down with the amount of energy he felt in his body. Sweat streaked down his face and dropped off in little beads into the air as Kaito continued his desperate dash towards the tree, a dash that contained every bit of motivation he had ever been able to summon into his body over the course of his life. Upon reaching reaching the tree, Kaito planted his left foot into the ground just next to the trunk as he pumped huge amounts of reiatsu throughout his body to it escaped in streaks of dark purple from under his robes and into the air. No sound escaped from Kaito as he lifted the blade off his shoulder and in one motion pivoted into a swing that made a singing noise as the blade cut first through the air then through the trunk of the tree, "I didn't even feel any resistance..." Kaito noticed as he passed out from the exhaustion of his second try at mastering the blade.

+3 to Spirit for Pushing to your limit!

(Spirit power please. Thank you judges.)

Not much time had passed since Kaito had passed out from trying to master the huge blade when he felt a gruff and not very gentle tug upon his shoulder coupled with an angry voice with a thick accent attempting to wake him up, "Git yer ass up laddy!" said the man with determination in his voice. After the shaking persisted for awhile, Kaito finally came to groggily to see the ex-lieutenant standing over him with a dangerous glint in his eye and he was holding the huge blade that Kaito had recently been struggling with in his hands, "Lesh go. Dis is da last step of yer training. Ya should be able to hand it after this..." he said as he dropped the blade next Kaito. Because the blade was so heavy when it hit the dirt next to Kaito the dust that had been in that area was dispersed through the air and naturally some of it flew into Kaito's eyes and nose causing him to sit up spluttering. Rubbing his eyes with the back of his hands, Kaito shakily arose to his feet as he tried to regain his bearings on where he was and what he was supposed to be doing, "What troublesome life this has turned out to be..." he inwardly complained. Looking down he sighed as he crouched again so that he could pick up the huge blade that had just recently become the main tool for his training, but he wasn't the least bit happy about this change in fighting utensils.

He gripped the hilt of the zanpakuto and realized that little by little he was getting to be able to handle it with a little more ease every time, "I wonder if it is because I am getting stronger or if it is simply because my endurance level has increased so dramatically it doesn't matter how much effort it takes..." Kaito pondered quietly. The booming voice of the jolly ex-lieutenant who was training him roused him out of his daze, "It does seem like yer gettin' da hang of using dat dere blade, so like I 'aid before dis will be da last step of yer training..." Rab told Kaito with a goofy grin on his face. The grin made Kaito feel a bit uncomfortable because it was so sincere that it was quite easy to see that Rab Nesbit was extremely happy to have an apprentice that was willing to go through the suffering and even capable of going through it as Kaito had. Nervously shifting his weight from side to side, the young shinigami waited to hear what kind of training Rab Nesbit had in mind for him since he was definitely more interested in the notion of this being that last session of his training with the heavy blade. Rab, whose hands were placed on his hands let out a hearty laugh with his chest out and his head reared back so that his laughter escaped playfully into the sky before he began to explain to Kaito what exactly he would be doing, "Yer gonna attempt to increase your concentration time, tamina, and naturlly, yer precision wit da blade" he happily called out.

At first the only response that Kaito could make to the lieutenant's remark was to scoff slight as he once again shifted his weight from his left foot to the right foot, "How exactly am I going to do something like increase my percision with something this damn big?" Kaito asked in an unconvinced tone. Without answering the young shinigami, Nesbit reached down and picked up a small, smooth pebble from the ground that had been lying at his feet, but naturally Kaito couldn't see where this was leading to. "Wit dis naturally..." he said as he playfully yet still gracefully moved the pebble between his fingers as he still smiled at Kaito, but now the smile had taken on a devious nature that Kaito didn't understand until he saw Nesbit rear back with the pebble in his hand and then whipped it at him. "Use yer blade to slice the pebble so dat ya don't get hit!" Nesbit shouted as the pebble came whistling through the air at Kaito, who groaned again as he raised the blade into a position that would allow him to strike quickly. Focusing on the pebble's flight path through the air, Kaito managed to slow the speed of the pebble in his mind's eye and flexed his muscles in an attempt to bring the blade over his head in a strike as he had when he cut the tree earlier on.

Kaito's muscles cried out in agony as Kaito pushed them to the limit to swing the blade over his head in preparation of the pebble that was sailing towards him with an impressive speed which meant that it would hurt if he missed and the pebble accidentally struck him. When the pebble passed a certain point Kaito prepared himself as he used his abdominal muscles to power the swing downward so that the pebble would be sliced in half and would pass by him harmlessly; at least in Kaito's mind that's how things played out. He had not counted upon the pain that erupted from the pit of his stomach as he tried to swing down, but because the pain was so great and also very unexpected Kaito winced as he brought the blade down in an attempt to strike the pebble. Missing the pebble by little more than an inch Kaito readied himself for the pain that he was sure would come when a projectile coming at that speed would bring, but when it struck him in his chest on the left side the pain was so intense that he gasped with shock at the pain. Panting to regain his breath as he continued to clutch his chest Nesbit bellowed in laughter, "Dat's da idea at least...don't miss too many times lest ya find yerself seriously 'urt..."; Nesbit added the last part in dark seriousness.

With that tidbit of information finally in the open, Nesbit seemed to no longer in the mood to talk as he picked up three more pebbles and cocked back as he had before with the pebbles in his hand, "You have got to be kidding me..." Kaito thought as his jaw dropped slightly at the prospect of having to slice through so many pebbles at once. Gathering his breath and wits about him, the young shinigami watched vigilantly as the pebbles flew from Nesbit's hand and towards him, but this time he was a bit more prepared as he made three sharp movements with the blade. The result of his attack was that six pebble pieces fell to the ground and Kaito was even more out of breath than he had been after his first attempt. His energy was being sapped by the fact that he had to focus his muscles to the point where they could bear the brunt of the weight without leaving any slack so that he could cut the miniscule pebbles that were being hurled at him by a burly brute of a man. The training continued through the afternoon into the early night by which time Kaito was leaning on the blade to remain standing as Nesbit applauded him for the valiant effort that he put forth today; Kaito hated it since he hadn't managed to stop every pebble and was covered in pock marks from the pebbles that had landed on his poor body. After taking two steps towards the house with the sword dragging through the dirt behind him, Kaito felt the world beginning to swirl around him and he knew that he was about to pass out again, "It seems that sleeping on the dirt has become a trademark of mine..." the shinigami mused in his head as he fell to the ground.