Suoh
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Post by Suoh on Sept 19, 2009 15:47:39 GMT -4
Concentration. All it takes is concentration, Suoh reminded himself, standing on his hands. Carefully he shifted his weight so that his left hand bore all of it and he moved his right hand out to the side to help maintain his balance. It was flashy, and showy, and everything Sudah hated about the way he preferred to train, but he enjoyed the focus it demanded and the awareness of his own body. Inhaling, he began to bend the elbow and lower himself down until his face was almost pressed into the ground before pushing himself back up, his breath exploding out. He lifted his head to check Oki's progress on the course.
"Get your knees up!" he barked, then lowered himself for a second time.
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Oki
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Post by Oki on Sept 19, 2009 15:57:49 GMT -4
Sweat was already falling into Oki's eyes when Suh shouted at her and she glowered. The weights were getting heavy around her ankles and she felt like a prancing idiot as she jogged her way through the netting. But she lifted her knees higher, bringing them up to her chest and picking up the pace. She wasn't sure if she liked this, but she had asked him...
"Are you planning on joining me, or are you going to keep playing?" she called back, panting.
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Suoh
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Post by Suoh on Sept 19, 2009 16:11:53 GMT -4
Suoh sighed with a hint of frustration and lowered his feet back down on to the ground. If she was going to talk then there was no way he was going to be able to concentrate. He didn't know why she was getting testy - this had been her brilliant idea! Show me how you train, she'd said... I want to try it your way, she'd said...
"Listen chick, you're either going to talk or you're going to work. You're not going to have enough energy to do this and to chit-chat while you're at it. This was your idea. You wanted to do this, so I said I'd show you. I didn't say anything about joining you, and by the time we're done here today, you'll know why. Now down and give me forty! I want you pushing yourself up hard enough that you can clap your hands before you touch down again and leave the weights on!"
He'd known when he suggested them that Oki hated the ankle and wrist weights, and that had been why he'd made her put them on. She needed to push herself in a new direction, and he was going to make sure that she found it. She didn't have to like it, she just had to work.
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Oki
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Post by Oki on Sept 19, 2009 22:45:35 GMT -4
"Chick? I'm your sister, not some fuzzy, defenseless ball of feathers," Oki complained. She'd show him that she could talk and work at the same time! She dropped down and began the push ups. Suoh seemed different out here, less laid back, and his penchant for nicknames was rubbing the wrong way right now.
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Yuki
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Post by Yuki on Sept 19, 2009 22:50:48 GMT -4
"Little balls of feathers are what are currently renovating your kitchen," Yuki chimed in, walking out into the training grounds as well as he closed the book he was currently reading and walked over beside Suoh to watch this...
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Suoh
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Post by Suoh on Sept 19, 2009 23:01:27 GMT -4
"Those aren't little," Suoh said, sitting down on the grass. "Those are a menace. How the hell do you end up with owls in your apartment, any way? Does she go out and leave the balcony door wide open?"
He looked back out at Oki. "Oki? This is what you're doing," Suoh said, moving his fingers as though making a hand puppet talk. He then held his fingers firmly against his thumb. "This is what I want you to do. And that's another forty for talking back!"
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Oki
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Post by Oki on Sept 19, 2009 23:05:54 GMT -4
"Renovating?" Oki asked in surprised, tyring to imagine what Ruu and Kitsi were up to and suspecting she wasn't going to like it at all...
She then glared angrily at Suoh when he mocked her, but she did as told. Her arms and her shoulders were starting to burn, but she wasn't going to give him the satisfaction of taunting her further...
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Yuki
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Post by Yuki on Sept 19, 2009 23:09:03 GMT -4
Yuki actually pulled down his glasses to look over at Suoh this time in shock. "You won a bet?" he said, completely perplexed as to how this all came about - Oki was not only working her stunning ass off, but she was taking orders from her brother, and without much said in her defense either... it completely boggled Yuki's mind...
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Suoh
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Post by Suoh on Sept 19, 2009 23:15:40 GMT -4
"She asked for it," Suoh replied, laying back and tucking his hands under his head. "She was asking what my team back home was like, what we got up to for training and asked if I'd show her. She's being shown, but she's being a smart ass and complaining about it."
He was silent for a moment, his eyes closed as he listened to the regular clapping of Oki's hands.
"C'mon, chicky, I don't hear much clapping! Harder!"
He then looked up at Yuki. "She's impossible, really."
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Oki
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Post by Oki on Sept 19, 2009 23:22:26 GMT -4
"Go die in a fire!" Oki raged. The back of her tank top was already soaked and clinging uncomfortably to her, and she tried pushing herself up with more force. If nothing else, she clapped when her hands left the ground.
"Bastard," Oki muttered.
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Yuki
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Post by Yuki on Sept 19, 2009 23:27:22 GMT -4
"You know, when this is over... She's going to kick your ass... She's going to make you work out with me," he said, mainly just as a joke at Suoh's expense. "Luckily for you, today is mostly reading assignments," he said holding up the book he was holding, 'Hsung Tsu's the Art of War,' and it looked like he had several other books in his back pack as well... "Summoning practice tonight though... That'll be rough..."
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Suoh
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Post by Suoh on Sept 19, 2009 23:32:19 GMT -4
"That's what she wants to work on. She's been prattling on about some kinda cat, and how she needs to work on her technique. I tried not to pay much attention. It sounded like chick stuff. And when I'm done with her, she'll be lucky if she can move her legs, much less lift them to kick anything that's higher than the side of my foot. She'd never last with us."
He smirked at Oki's shouting, and picked up on her muttering. "What do you say, Yuki? Another ten for name calling?"
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Oki
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Post by Oki on Sept 19, 2009 23:37:16 GMT -4
"I will kill you both in your sleep," Oki threatened, finishing the last push up and sitting back on her heels to catch her breath. She didn't think Yuki would agree with Suoh, but she didn't put it past Suoh to make her do them any way and she was beginning to regret asking for his help. He seemed to be enjoying this far too much...
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Yuki
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Post by Yuki on Sept 19, 2009 23:39:59 GMT -4
Yuki actually gave a full body, involuntary shiver at the mention of a cat and a little "gahhhhh," slipped through his lips.
"I still say she kicks your ass... She's kept up to me... more or less," he advised Suoh, but didn't say no. If she was too tired to summon any cats now, or in a years time, that was perfectly fine with Yuki...
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Suoh
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Post by Suoh on Sept 19, 2009 23:46:04 GMT -4
"Man, this is just supposed to be a warm up and he's half done in already! At this rate, she might be able to summon a hair ball, but she's not getting pussy any time soon. But hey, if she kills you in your sleep it means you might actually get her in bed with you."
He looked back over at Oki. "Sorry, love, but Yuki seems to think you can do ten more."
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