Ryouta walked onto the sparring grounds, looked around, and sighed. I thought I was done with fighting...
He sat down on the ground, pulled out a book by Kurotsuchi Mayuri with included lab notes by one Szayel Aporro Grantz on Arrancar, and began to read as he waited.

Himawari made her way through the grass, the breeze blowing her hair out of her face. The sparring grounds was coming into view, and Himawari sighed, “This better be good. “ She shifted her Zanpakutō on her back, ensuring its sheath was comfortable for her. Her eyes scanned across the grounds, looking to see if there was anyone to practise with. Her vision panning, she spied a dark haired male, reading on the opposite side of the grounds than her. She strode over to him, a smile on her face. “You here to practise too?” she asked.

Ryouta dropped his book on the ground and stood, then held his hand out to shake. "Yeah. My first name's Ryouta, family name's Ayame. Nice to meet you."
He scratches his head and looks off wistfully toward the kido field.
"Don't take this personally, but I really don't like fighting...*sigh* We might as well get started."
Ryouta drew his twin ninjato and assumed a defensive stance. He let his reiatsu flow, let his spirit [pwer increase to its near maximum, in an attempt to 1) gauge how sensitive she was to it, and 2) if he could intimidate her with it.

(OOC: could i go for points in spirit power please )
OOC: sorry this post turned out a little longer than i'd ment it too i get a lil carried away sometimes

IC: Jin was once agiain lain strewn across the training field it had become almost like his habitat since he spent more time there than he did in his quaters and it was pointless even factoring in the minimal amount of time he could actually convince himself to train.

Blissfull images floated through his thoughts as he drifted around im pleasant slumber. It had been a hard day his tutors had noticed his lack of effort in classes and had forced him to stay behind to practice where they could keep an eye on him they were bcoming less convinced by the day of his stories of intense training sessions alone on the fields, in all fairness he had at least put some effort into improving his kidou which was coming along quite nicely in his opinion. As he lay dreaming of grandeur (well the kind of grandeur one can achieve with minimal effort) his soul was shaken by a large disturbance of reiatsu, it awoke Jin sharply from his day dreaming, forcing a thought to occur to him he was becoming annoyingly sensitive to reiatsu flows. He couldnt decide whether that would be a gift or a curse, but that was a matter for another day.

If there was one thing that annoyed him more than anything it was a premature awakening and the one resposible for this was in trouble. as he rubbed his eyes the fatigue of the erlier hours slowly draining away he decided how best to go about finding the culprit of his misfortune, but unfortunatly the only solution he could find would require immidiate action whilst the strong reiatsu was still there, he may of been slightly above average in his abilities to atune himself with reiatsu flows but he was knowhere near skilled enough to track the more subtle currents.

He dragged himself to his feet unsheathing his Katana and resting it on his shoulder, the Wing shaped guard of his blade glinting in the setting sunlight, closing his eyes once more he focused solely on the frequency of this new Boistrous reiatsu focusing all his intentions on finding the source of this flow. As his concentration deepened he felt himself slowly syncing this new frequency with his own at which point he opened his eyes again.

There it was, it had worked perfectly he was now able to visualise the spirit ribbon of this reiatsu flow a little basic but effective, he quickly grabbed hold of it chasing it too its source but after running only a few metres he'd already reached it, a young male shinigami looking as though he'd initiated combat with a female opposite him. With a blink of his eyes he released his connection to the mans reiatsu causing the ribbon that had lead him to his goal to dissapear.

It seemed from the scene at hand that the man had released his sprit pressure in a show of power to preceed the fight at hand. Unfortunately for him this prior engagement of his didnt bother Jin who was still preety antagonised from erlier. Unfortunately if this spar had already got this far underway it meant that woman would be an active factor but he was in no mood for partnering this guy was getting a beating from Jin and Jin alone.

he slowly strode toward the couple his usual casual smirk adorning his face

"You should be a little more careful when carelessly releasing such spirit pressure" he called as he approached the two combatants "you might aggrevate people by disturbing them"
he then turned to look toward the female shinigami "im sorry miss but im afraid i cant just walk away now that its come this far im going to have too cut in on your sparring session. But i would never be so rude as too ask you too leave from it i just ask that you dont take sides please feel free to attack me aswell as the impolite one i will be doing the same"

With that his body language changed from the erlier casulness displayed as he readied himself in a more appropriate postion to fight.

(( Jin I read your character profile, I’m British too so I understand the whole Time zone issue))

Himawari sighed in return, before raising her eyes to meet his, a smirk playing upon her lips, “I’m Himawari Fukuyama. And combat is what I’m best at.” She moved to face him, before drawing her katana. She could feel his reiatsu pulsing at her, but that was far too simple a freak-out tactic. She released her own to match his, before jumping at the approach of someone else. She looked up at the tall young man who was approaching them. She looked him up and down; his appearance suggested he was a similar age to her, his tone did not. He was younger than her. She could tell that. A sly grin appeared upon her face.

“Ok junior,” she smirked at him, “It’s your funeral. Just to warn you, I don’t like holding back. And I don’t like being called miss.” She raced forward, her blade falling back in the wake of her flash step. She moved quickly, appearing behind Ryouta, taking an almost casual swing for the back of his neck. She could feel her own reiatsu vibrating around her. She couldn’t remember a thrill like this before, the feeling of her own spiritual energy encasing her, feeding her.

((OOC Would like to increase spirit power please))

OOC:haha im not the only one the whole time issue gets kinda pesky huh lol could i get some points for spirit power on this one please

IC: -ahhh shit this girl could use flash step this made things.....troublesome he'd completely underestimated her, being a shinigami was definately gonna require him to put some more effort in he was completely lacking, and to top it off she was mad he'd called her miss he was begining to wish he'd just asked her to help him pummel the guy. no that was the complete wrong mind set now wasa as good a time as any to improve his skill....no better he had live practise dummies this was combat he needed to go all out-

Jin watched in shock as the woman's figure dissapeared and reapeared behind the guy, that could only be the flash step technique they'd learn't about in class but it really was a beautiful sight to watch live....he had to posses it but that could come later.

He absorbed every detail of the movement she made how long it took her to reach Ayame, the delay between flash step and striking, the length of her reach everything he could. He would need each detail to try and find an opening.

Jin began to release his reiatsu the thick density of the aura's of the other two shinigami seemed to fuel his own it felt harsher more intense than before, ivigorating his body emgulfing him in the joys combat could bring. as this new level of energy seeped from every pore in his body he pointed a finger towards the head of the woman who'd now appeared again behind Ayame she was taking a swing at him but it seemed relaxed as if she'd not yet gotten serious, that drop in speed was the kind of opening he'd hoped for.

"Hadou number 4: Byakurai"

a white bolt of energy blasted forth from his finger hurtling towards Himawari, but it was different from the last time he'd used it slightly thicker and denser than before, the reiatsu he'd unleashed let him make this spell a little more......potent

As soon as he felt Himawari's reiatsu behind him, Ryouta flash-stepped behind Jin and placed a ninjato on his shoulder as he fired off his Byakurai.
"Defend yourself against me too, not just her. I may hate fighting, but I can do it."
He removes his ninjato from Jin's shoulder. "But don't worry, it's no big deal."
Ryouta flash-steps between the two, one ninjato pointed at the faces of each of them (about say 10 meters from each of you). "And now we begin for real."
He flash-stepped and appeared behind Jin, spun, and prepared to stab him in a Senka maneuver, except he aimed for both his shoulder joints instead of the nearly fatal normal points.

ooc: i'm aiming to increase spirit power and shunpo

OOC:Spirit please

-ahhh goddammit i'm really in over my head shiiiit, guess im guna have to try using it, unpredictability in mid combat is such a liability-

he watched in horror as ayame now used his flash step to slip round to Jins back placing his blade on Jins shoulder this was quite a predicament if it had been just Himawari he'd of probly been able to let the battle run its course but with both of them being skilled flash step users it ment he'd have to at least try using it, he couldnt afford to look like the weaker target in this situation.

After a few quick words of warning in his ear Ayame took a position between Jin and Himawari showing the advatages of his twin blades, but before an attack could be made he was behind Jin once more, the change in air pressure told him that Ayame was driving both blade towards his shoulders to have such vital parts hit so early in the game couldnt be allowed, throwing his blade spinning into the air he began a back somesault, placing his open palms onto the flat backs of the ninjato as he went, the with a push off the blades he completed the somesault grabing his sword as he rose, changing his position he released his reiatsu letting it flow into the blade sycing his spiritual pressure with the attack for increased impact, as he fell back towards the ground he brought the katana down toward Ayame in an ovehead strike

"Well done!" Ryouta congratulated Jin. Instead of engaging him though, he flash-stepped again, this time crashing his right ninjato into Himawari's blade. He points his left blade at Jin as he winks at Himawari.
"I'm fast. Hado no Yo: Byakurai!" Ryouta channels a blast of lightning through his left ninjato to fire at Jin, and at the same time through his right, but in this one, he vibrates his reiatsu so that the blade he is fighting Himawari with become something like a Seele Schneider.

Sprit again please

"you guys really enjoy that flash step huh, personally im kinda adverse to excess movement" the words rang from jin's mouth as his blade crashed to the ground, he dived to the side in an attempt to avoid the byakurai but the delay from his landing had caused too big an opening allowing the spell the graze through his left shoulder burning through the flesh leaving a scorched trail as a mark of its presence, on the bright side the spell had cortarised the wound preventing any excess blood loss which was a fact Jin tried to concentrate on ignoring his anger at getting caught in the attack.

as he skidded to a halt after recoveing from his dive he looked over to see Ayame and Himawari deadlocked in combat, this provided the perfect oppertunity for him. He released an released his reiatsu but it seemed to get carried away by itself leaking from every pore of his body causing him to get swept up in a tsunami of his own spritual pressure it enveloped him like a cloak still more adding to the already fromidable quantity previously released. it was time to focus it the resevour of energy trickled down his arms pooling at his palms the pools growing and growing until Jin felt like it may overwealm him, he was getting too carried away and beggining to lose control of his own power, but for now he was still holding the reigns concentrating this purest form of fuel into the coming spell.

"Disintegrate, you black dog of Rondanini! Look upon yourself with horror and then claw out your own throat!"

Jin quickly recited the words wasting as little time witht he incantation as possible he felt the reiatsu disperse from his palms as the spell began to take effect.

Damn, thought Ryouta. I've gotta move. He flash-stepped above them, to stand in the air above using Hohou. Looking down on them, he decided he'd just let them duke it out. Based on what he had seen, he was fairly certain that neither was proficient enough in Shunpo to use Hohou. Instead, he just stood there and let his spiritual energy increase and build as high as he could possibly make it go. He began to glow with reiatsu- it was white in color, and seemed to crackle with electricity.

Himawari sighed as Ryouta dodged her swing to his neck, but she herself knew it was an overly predictable attack, so she could only guess it was to be expected. So he liked to utilise Shunpo too. She twisted in midair as he shot away from her, but not out of the way of the blast of lightning that had erupted from her other combatant’s hand. Her body flew backwards, at a speed that Himawari could compare to her own Shunpo. She desperately twisted her body once again, driving her Zanpakutō into the ground. She reinforced her blade with her own reiatsu. The feel of her own spiritual energy burned through her and straight through her blade, increasing its resilience and its grip on the ground below her,slowing the motion of her body, and bringing herself into a landing.

Damm, she thought to herself, so that’s the way these two want to play. She hadn’t expected them to use Kidou in this match, and the fact that they were both quite skilled at it made her ears burn. Just my luck the one skill I’m not so great at, my opponents are both way superior to me. She raised her blade to counteract the attack of Ryouta’s right blade, but her face flushed as he winked at her, God, who does this guy think he is? She flash-stepped behind him once again to avoid his attack, before stabbing for his arm. She swore under her breath as he flash-stepped away, almost as if he’d ignored her attack. She too flashed away, sheathing her blade as she moved. She appeared behind Jin, swinging a powerful kick to the back of his neck.

((ooc: I'm hoping to improve spirit power))

OOC: i think we,ve gotta pick one stat for each post, but i might be wrong not sure, o and think i may have to go for speed on this one.

Hitting the woman with his kidou gave Jin a slight sence of fulfillment it was enjoyable to see the labour he was putting into those arts come to fruition, but Ayame he was a different matter casually using flashstep to just stand above and gaze down on them, now that was arrogance and come to think of it Jin remembered that guy was the reason he was here in the first place. WOW he couldnt believe it had already slipped his mind the main reason he wass fighting,he'd really need to take some time to learn to focus in battle otherwise he'd be nothing more that a rampaging weapon attacking whatever he thought seemed like a good target. Both of them dodging his bakudou had been a pain that would have proved more than useful, but at least now Ayame for his arrogance or whatever other reason had removed himself from combat that at least only left Jin with one other target unless of course Himawari decided she didnt like letting Ayame leave. Ahhhh dammit so many factors too consider.

His shoulder ached from his erlier encounter with Ayame's kidou, the pain keeping him alert and spurring him on, so for now it was Himawari as his opponent, since she hadnt used kidou he was fairly sure he could assume it wasnt one of her strong points but then again her speed definately outranked his.

Before he had time for any further consideration she was behind him a powerful leg swinging for the attack, at this speed the was no way he could dodge it normally, it was now or never he have to try it a hit this close range would do him some serious damage.
Once again his reiatsu pulsed throught his body no longer out of control, now it was coursing through him providing the nourishment for his skill to grow and blossom. He could feel the diifference in his power when he released his reiatsu it was like a brief high sharpening each of his five senses to a deadly point, incresing his reaction time tremendously and rejuvinating his tired muscles. As this euphoric sensation diffused through his body he allowed the majority of it to flow towards his feet, this enchanting ambience giving his legs the feeling they were as light as air fudeucing his density till it was as if her were just a shell of a man where flesh once lay he was now fillied with air, light as a feather.

With his new state of mind in hand he kicked of the floor with his foot his body blurring as it dissapeared from its erlier spot only to re-appear a few yards to the left. That was it he'd effectively performed shunpo in combat, this fight was just filled with revalations for him. And not a moment too soon as he looked over he watched the leg continue its arc throught he air with a power that looked as though it would've taken his head clean off.

At this point he had to smile, his characteristically broad grin spreading across his face, he kicked off the floor again not wanting too waste any time this time appearing to the side of Himawari, he could tell in comparison his shunpo was eisiliy slower than the other two but he had too put that down to his still being in such a raw form. as his body resurfaced to just to the Himawari's left he swung his blade at he in a horizontal strike at her midsection as she rebalanced after her kick.

((ooc: I’m going for shunpo for this post then ))

Himawari fell completely into the spirit of the fight, using her overbalance to allow her body to fall backwards, ducking beneath the blade of Jin’s attack. She could feel his reiatsu pulsating over her, and its strength threw her off for one moment. How could this guy emanate so much power so easily? She could tell that her own spiritual strength exceeded his own, but he could demonstrate it with refinement that she wasn’t used to. Her hands sprang backwards, throwing her into a back flip, knocking his hand carrying his blade upwards. Her flip continued, tossing her into a full 360 decrees circle. The moment her feet touched the ground once more, she used her reiatsu to kick off, flash stepping around her opponent in a circle, carrying her full skills of hand-to-hand combat, her hair whipping around her like a red hurricane. She punched and kicked at him, using her superior speed to attempt to get under his defences. She dropped down low, throwing a kick out at his legs, to knock his balance.

OOC: i guess this can be for kidou since that seems to be the main element of the post lol

WOW he could not believe how badly this fight had turned for him in a matter of seconds, as he slash had played out the Himawari had nimbly dropped backward avoiding it with a backflip not only that she'd even managed to kick the blade from his hands, not the best of developments.

As he watched in dismay as his blade flew into the air the girl began using shunpo with speed superior to his to attack him in unarmed combat and area he had next to no expierience in. What a pain.

as fists sprang out from the figure sweeping around him he could do nothing to dodge them with Himawari circling him even shunpo was out of the question. the fists slammed into his gut wrenching the air from his lungs, then a flew to his head without even a chance for recovery his body was sent reeling to the side. At least the circular motion ment she could't attack with her full strength but that really wasn't much of a consolation as Jin was battered from side to side. next a leg shot out aiming to overbalance him, but he couldnt allow that if he hit the floor he was sure it was all over this one didnt seem like the type to give second chances. He leapt up as she moved for his legs jumping high above the perpetual woman, as he did so he thrust his palm down facing toward the woman.

This was a kidou for which the incantation wasnt even necesarry.......usually. unfortuantely he was going to have to test his skills in kidou manipulation here instead of binding just her arms he was going for arms and legs simultaneously. A feat that seemed albeit challenging but definately possible. as he glared down a the circling figure he realised he was beggining to descend, not much time it had to be now.

"Bakudou number 1: Restrain"

It was so weak he was sure at somepoint she'd break free, but he wasnt even sure it would make contact. Hopefully the speed at which she moved would reduce her powers of perception.