Breaking the News... Plus Donuts (Lunar Knights)

[Daisuke Takemitsu]

"This whole order sounds like a pretty sweet deal, but... I have to know what Rin is doing first. I've been without her for much, much too long, just to decide my own fate without taking her's into account. As such, where she goes, I go. Even if it means going straight off a cliff!" I say with a grin, glancing over to the sleeping girl. "That doesn't mean I won't train these new powers or whatever. I'm psyched for that. I just mean that I'm going to follow Rin with the decisions she makes." I say before snatching a new donut.

[Kurai Horo]

"As of now, Rin, 'Guo and Shin are all travelling with us. Whether or not they want to join the order is up to them." He glanced at each of his students in turn. "We're not asking anyone to make a decision until they are fully trained, then and only then will you be offered a proper place within the order, but because it would be much better for us to keep moving rather than stay in one place, it would be advisable that you come with us now to get the most of your training..." He also looked across at Rin.

"If you're following her, then I assume that will be the case..."

[Daisuke Takemitsu]

"Indud et wull!" I mumble with a mouthful of donut. "Sho, whun dos tranung sturt?" I mumble again, before swallowing. "I'm actually pretty anxious; I wanna see what Tarran can do! If it's power over earth, I bet he can help me with keeping balance and using terrain to combat advantage... Or something."

[Kurai Horo]

Kurai frowned in thought for a moment. He hadn't thought about Tarran's earth abilities. "We've been travelling by boat... Which would obviously make training for you incredibly difficult..." He raised a finger in the air as if coming to some grand solution. "I know!" He said "We have two options, we take the long way and travel by foot, or we take the short way and travel by boat, but you, Daisuke, make sure to fill up a bag with different earth based materials, soil, dirt, rocks so on, so forth."

[Daisuke Takemitsu]

"I'm not exactly sure how much time we have, of course, and I don't want to hold you guys back..." I begin, before pausing for 'effect'. "So i'll go get the bag!" I rush out of the room, in search of a bag or sack big enough to hold all the... sediment? I'll need.

[Rin Tezuka]

"...Blindfold." This was my name for Kurai. "I want to tell you something. Because I need your help." I had been awake. Listening. I take another bite of the donut that had been in my mouth and chew it slowly. "Trench Coat. His name is Itami, I think. I found him again... and he fought me. His lightning hand thing is really annoying... He's paralyzed me twice. Like a jellyfish. And that black fire could be bad..."

With a sigh, I keep my eyes closed. "You seem to be the teacher guy here. I want your help. I need to counter his lightning."

[Kurai Horo]

Kurai gave a small 'hm?' As he turned to face Rin, he was always happy to help his students so long as it didn't really get in the way with his reading time, and he was listening intently, until he backtracked on what she'd said and paid attention to the name.

"I-Itami?!" He cried, his one eye opening in shock as he suddenly closed his book without even marking his page, and placing it within his pouch. Kurai always made sure to mark his page. "What was his clan name? Was it Kodoku?" He didn't even give Rin time to answer, everything else she'd said had already confirmed what he thought. He stood up and started pacing slowly. "Itami-kun... What are you doing here? Why would he attack Rin..." He stopped for a moment, had she said black fire?! That means...

"He's awoken the Mangekyo then..." He turned on Rin suddenly. "And you say he attacked you? Do you know why?!"

[Rin Tezuka]

"Avenging or getting stronger or something... He's really weak, Blindfold. He's physically tough, yeah... But his heart and mind are weak. He's absorbed with anger." I shrug, and shift around in the couch to get comfortable again. "He was pretty peeved I beat him once. Well, it was a draw, really... But I definitely beat him the second time today. But he thanked me. And I'm worried he won't stop being angry. So I need you to help me get stronger... I can do a lot of small things. But he has so many bigger attacks..."

The couch was no longer comfortable. I sit straight up, still almost-asleep. "Help me get stronger, Blindfold. Teach me some wicked strong techniques like him. I want to bring him out of that bad path..."

[Kurai Horo]

"Damn it Itami-kun... I told you to give up that path... That's the very reason I taught you how to use Chidori..." Kurai's eye suddenly snapped on to Rin, and he sat back down, resting his elbows on the table he interlocked his fingers and rested his chin against them. "There is one other technique, in it's base format, it's stronger than that basic Chidori which seems to be what you described to me... Just like the Chidori can only be used by Kodoku clan members, this move can only be used by Lunar Knights." He pointed up to the sky.

"It uses Lunar Energy. Not your elemental kind though, it uses the pure Lunar Energy of Ketuluna and it is dangerously unstable. But if Itami-kun is using the Chidori against us, then I'll need to teach it to you all..." He stood up, holding his hand out towards Rin, palm facing upwards. "It's a draining technique, requiring most of the Lunar Energy you have stored at the time, so it shouldn't be used lightly. You start off, by gathering your energy to the center of your palm." He did so himself, nothing was happening as of yet.

"Then, you start to control the rotation of it, you spin it not just in one direction, but you continuously fold it in on itself, making a hectic formation. For the rest of you, this will still result in nothing happening, but thanks to my training, I can use my raw physical energy." As if on cue, a blue sphere started to form in Kurai's hand. "This, is called the 'Rasengan' and it's one of my strongest techniques... But I'll be teaching you something even better." He kept the Rasengan spinning as he continued his tutorial.

"Next, is the part where you start to form the attack. You pour your Lunar Energy into the Rasengan, to form..." The Rasengan suddenly took on a near blinding white flow, with a few wisps floating off of it like a mist. "Lunar Rasengan!" Kurai finished, allowing everyone a few moments to admire the sphere, before he killed it off. A few others in the Inn were staring now as well, some in fear, some in amazement, but Kurai paid them no heed. "If we were in proper training, I'd show you what it's capable of... But I don't think the innkeeper would be too happy about that..."

He looked across at Rin again. "It gets no stronger than the Lunar Rasengan. At least, unless Itami-kun has truly mastered Chidori, or even worse, Amaterasu. But I highly doubt that."

[Rin Tezuka]

"...teach it to me, Blindfold. If it doesn't get stronger than that, I need it now. He could find me again, soon, any time. Even tonight. I need to learn it now." Trench Coat did seek me out. He wanted to fight me. And he might again, once he's stronger. I snap my eyes open, slivers of shining grey all over my dark green eyes. "Please, teach me to use this Razorgone thing."

[Kurai Horo]

"Rasengan." Kurai corrected her, looking down at the hand in which the jutsu had been formed only moments ago, before closing it into a fist. "And it isn't an easy technique to learn, it's one that can take days, even weeks to get right. I'm afraid it isn't going to happen just like that, it took my own father's sensei months to even create the technique for the first time, and as such we should assume that it could at the most take you the same."

He fixed Rin with a serious stare. "As such, we'll begin training." He closed his eye in thought for a moment. "Daisuke will start the meditative training that the others have completed, until he has a solid link with Tarran, preferably under Vash if he has the time. Shin is going to continue his own private training with me to strengthen his own link." He looked across at Rin and then at 'Guo. "You two are going to be taking sessions with me to learn the Lunar Rasengan... When the others have finished mastering what they're doing, they'll join you." His eye narrowed. "And until that time, no-one is to travel without myself or Vash being present."

In short hand, Kurai had basically just said 'I'm sacrificing sleep to train you all and protect you all.' But he could take no chances if Itami had gone rogue. He had trained that boy himself, and he was a Kodoku which meant when it came to combat, he was a complete and utter genius, he honestly doubted that if he had the Mangekyo, any of his students could stand up to him at the moment, not without a move like the Lunar Rasengan, they needed to work quickly.

[Rin Tezuka]

"Rasengan. Right. It doesn't matter. What does matter is that I need it, Blindfold." I turn to 'Guo and give him my shining gaze. "We're learning this. We're the only ones that can right now..." My gaze goes over everyone in the room. "But I'm going to be the one to fight Trench Coat. All of you... please stay out..."

[Daisuke Takemitsu]

"Everyone! I found the bag!" I yelled, as I tripped back into the room. After a slgiht 'oof', I got up, nabbed a donut, and asked "Sho wut ded oy mess?"

[Kurai Horo]

Kurai seemingly ignored Daisuke's entrance as he continued speaking to Rin. "Let me make this clear." He cast his gaze downwards, almost as if in shame. "Itami-kun is my student, his clan are renowned for their Sharingan, the same type of eye that I keep covered all of the time... They can copy any technique that isn't of a Lunar quality, and even then, they can read you like a book if you're not fast enough, and if he has Amaterasu..." He sighed. "Amaterasu is a technique unlocked when you use the left Mangekyo Sharingan, it's a black flame that cannot be put out, and it will burn whatever it hits to nothingness."

Kurai had never been able to access Amaterasu thanks to his own eye being implanted, or rather, he'd never tried to use Amaterasu... "It allows him to use Chidori with little to no effect on his vision and it truly is the ultimate battle tool." His eye locked onto Rin once again. "If you're going to fight Itami-kun, I will not let you do it alone, he was my student once, I know how he works... His clan-" He cut himself off, that wasn't his place to say, whether or not he had gone rogue, Itami-kun was still his student... "Look, he's fueled by revenge, and he's dangerous."

[Rin Tezuka]

I actually smile just a bit at Kurai. "Sorry, Blindfold. This is my fight. I'm not letting you get into it. Even if I have to fight you off, too." I sigh heavily and slump in the couch. "I'm not afraid of him. I can make him see what his problem is. I'm sure of it."

I look at the Daisuke on the floor and return my gaze to a soft, regular green. "Hey, you. Get over here. I'm cold."