Oh, the pain...(Continued from Flash Fire)

[kaida]

Kaida eased herself into the hot spring, wearing a red swimsuit rather than cause an awkward situation by simply using a towel. It had been a rough sparring session with Kumori and she rested her back gently against a rock while stretching out her injured leg under the water, feeling the muscles start to relax. She sighed and then looked up as she head another approach the hot springs, expecting Kumori.

[Kumori]

Kumori was approaching he had changed into a pair black shorts, also to avoid any uncomfortable situations. Seeing Kaida look up at him coming, he waves and says, "Hi, how is your leg by the way? You looked like you where favoring it when you left the training grounds." Kumori the slips into the spring with a sigh.

[kaida]

"It's a bit sore but it should be fine after this." She smiled, leaning back a bit. "How's your nose now? Did my healing trick help?"

[Kumori]

"Yeah," He replied, "it helped alot, I barly even feel an pain from it at all now." Kumori pauses for a minute looking at Kaida, "How about I return the favor, I maybe able to help with your leg."

[kaida]

"You could? How?" She asked curiously, tilting her head a little bit at him. She was unsure of his abilities, thinking of something along the lines of her own healing help, trying to think if she had maybe heard his mentioned before.

[Kumori]

"Its nothing like what you can do," He said guessing she was thinking along those lines. "it is just a massage, I have had quite a bit of practise. I actually use it as part of my training, being able to relive stress to a muscle, also helps in knowing how to cause it in the first place." Smiling he continues, "So would you like me to try to help relax the muscles in your leg?"

[kaida]

"Umm...sure okay." She smiled a little and moved herself up out of the water a bit, keeping her back pressed against a warm rock to relieve the pain there and stretched out her right leg with a slight wince.

[Kumori]

Moving over to Kaida, Kumori places his hands on her leg, and moves them slightly, feeling out where the muscle is tensed at. Finding the spot his hands start moving with alittle bit more force, stedily moving around the stiffness of her leg. Kumori then starts talking and appearing not to be paying attention to what his hands are doing. "So who taught you to fight?" he asked, "Whoever they are they are good teachers."

[kaida]

She had blushed a bit when he had started feeling her leg muscles but when he started a coversation her embarrasment vanished. "Oh, my father and my brother taught me. They kinda had to when I started showing a lot of my...potential at a young age." She smiled. "What about you? I'm asuuming you learned a lot before you came to the Academy, right?"

[Kumori]

"Yeah," Kumori replied, "when me and Shikamaru were younger, we were very close. Whenever he was home I hung out with him and Choji. They helped me with a lot of my training, before I came the academy."

Kumori's hands were still moving along Kaida's leg, applying pressure to one spot, and gliding over another. They seemed to never stop moving at all. His hands are no longer just focusing on the area that Kaida is feeling the pain from, but is moving all along the leg. His hands are relieving tension in muscle Kaida did not even realize where tense, until his hands started working on them. Each muscle that relaxes in her leg slowly lessens the pain.

[kaida]

Kaida smiled at that and then noticed a significant decrease of pain in her leg. "You're very good at this Kumori-kun." She said, already feeling better about it. "I don't suppose you might work the kinks out of my back after this?" she asked. "That last throw seems to have a bad after-effect...but if I'm asking too much, this warm rock is helping." She laughed a bit.

[Kumori]

"Its, not too much to ask," he said, "I was going to offer soon anyway." he finished with a smile. His still moving on her leg as if they already know everythign about her muscle and know exactly what to do to get the desired effect.

[kaida]

Kaida hid her blush by smiling. "Thanks a lot. Really." She told him gratefully. leaning back against the rock to soothe her aching back for the moment, Kaida closed her eyes and relaxed. "So what made you interesting in joining the Academy, Kumori-kun?"

[Kumori]

"Well," he said, "at first it was to follow in my brother's, and fathers footsteps...." he trailed off, not explaining what drove him so hard now. He was staring off over kaida's shoulder as if he was remembering something from the past. He grimanced and looked back at Kaida, "Now it is to be better then my brother."

His hands still seemed to be working magic on Kaida's leg, the pain was almost completely gone from her muscles now. His hand were romeing along her legs from upper thigh, to back of the knee, to shin and calf. Then his hands moved to the bottom of her foot. while his hands worked on her foot, some of the muscles in the rest of her body loosened.

"How about you?" he asks in return, "What drives you to do well at the academy?" looking at her while rubing her foot he smiles waiting for a reply.

[kaida]

"I want to use my abilities to help people. Though some might see fire as an element to be destructive, I see it as healing and purifying sometimes...I could burn away the evil in the world if I tried...well some of it maybe." She smiled gently. "I don't like to see others in unnessacary pain or trouble...I will help them as best I can, maybe even if I can't do anything at all." She closed her eyes and sighed. "That's why I joined, so I can improve my skills in order to help people."