Time flies.
Of course she was so busy with finishing her last month and a half of college and the additional Shinigami prep courses that she had no opportunities to notice the passage of time in any other way. Time was flying. She did not know how it was that her head had not yet exploded from all of the information that was being crammed into it.
She still had plenty of time left though... too much in some respects. Part of her could not help but be eager to go to Soul Society and not just so she could see a certain Captain. She was curious to know what that world was like. She was eager to go to this Academy it was a new challenge and it was exciting. It was also scary. She wasn't much of a fighter, but Uruhara-san kept insisting that the Academy would at least make her capable. Even if she chose to focus on Kido she still needed to know how to fight.
She was dressed in work out clothes which for her consisted of black yoga pants and a black tank top and tennis shoes... She made her way into the shop and did not immediately see anyone... She set her things down and looked around... It was then that she noticed the cat. She smiled and crouched. "Hello there kitty." She says softly...
She didn't know the cat could understand her. Of course Yoruichi decided that she would play along just for a little bit and she moved over to the girl and allowed Erisia to scratch behind her ears... it was something humans would never understand. Hell the only reason she did was because she could transform. It just felt good.
"My my look at that. I see you've met my cat. I do hope she has been behaving herself." Uruhara says as he returns from an errand. He does not miss the glare shot at him by Yoruichi. Erisia had stood up at this point. There was a puff of smoke and standing there, where had once been the cat was Yoruichi in all her glory.
"Behave... you actually want me to behave?" Comes her incredulous response, a chuckle in her voice.
Erisia cannot help but blink in shock... Never mind that the woman was naked... But the cat... the cat wasn't a cat... "You're a person..."
"Yoruichi Shihoin... a pleasure to formally meet you." Comes the response.
"You should put some clothes on, Yoruichi I fear our young guest is not accustomed to your bad habits."
"Bad habits... really Kisuke... are you complaining?" Yoruichi teases.
"Only for Erisia's sake... you know better."
Yoruichi just chuckles and slips into a side room and gets into her normal outfit. She re-emerges. "Is that better?"
"How did you turn into a cat?"
"I'm sorry but that is something that I sadly cannot teach you... Eri-chan... but don't worry I have plenty of other tricks up my sleeves that I can teach you... I'll have you using shunpo well enough to keep Bya-bo on his toes at the very least." She laughs.
"Bya-bo?" Erisia was confused... maybe she shouldn't be but part of her mind was still reeling from the whole cat turning into a woman thing.
"Byakuya... the Captain you seem to be enamored with. I can't say I understand why... but to each their own."
"Why do you call him that? And... I'm not... I'm not enamored with him." She says softly.
"I've known him since he was a kid. And that little nickname is one of only a few things that can get under his skin enough to get him to play flash tag with me." She laughs. "You needn't be ashamed of it Erisia. Besides, I saw the sketch... Remember that little cat that was sitting beside you while you were on the back porch sketching?" She asks, looking at the girl... "Meow." She says with a smirk and a chuckle.
Eri blinks... and turns several shades of scarlet. Yoruichi sighs and shakes her head, walking over to the girl and putting an arm around her shoulders. "You have got to stop doing that. I told you it's nothing to be ashamed of. It was a very, very lovely sketch... you're quite a skilled artist. But we have some work to do today Eri-chan. So come on, let's go to the training area and we'll start seeing what you can learn from me." She says with a mischievous grin.
The women move off to the underground training area... It was grueling... it was the hardest thing that Erisia had ever had to do in her life... But at least she could wrap her mind around the concept enough to believe that what Yoruichi was telling her would actually work... And by the end of the day, while she was very grateful for the hot spring... She could at least move using shunpo. Not very fast yet, but she was showing promise at least.
"Picked it up on the first day... Impressive Eri-chan. You need a lot of work... and even more than that if you want to ever think of catching me... but not bad for a first day... not bad at all." Yoruichi chuckles. "We'll keep at it and by the time you get to the Academy you'll be able to impress your peers at the very least... but we won't just be focusing solely on shunpo, Eri-chan. You'll need to learn some basic hand to hand combat as well... and Kisuke tells me Tessai has offered to show you some basic kido... You sure you can handle all this and your college work?"
"I will manage. I have the big project done already... It's just the tedious things now. I did think about not going back but I am so close to being done that it seemed a waste to not finish."
"Whenever you have the choice Eri-chan, always finish what you start."
Erisia just nods to that. "I always try to."
"That's a good philosophy to have. Are you ready to call it for the evening or do you want to try again?"
"How much time before dinner?"
"We got about an hour."
"An hour more then... if you do not mind, Yoruichi-sensei."
Yoruichi chuckles at that. "An hour longer then... come on, get dried off and let's see what more you can learn." She laughs as she slips out of the hot spring. That the young woman did not want to quit for the evening despite the fact that she had to be sore was a good sign that she just might have a chance at graduating from the Academy...