I do not own Kill la Kill in any form. This is a work of fanfiction.

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Chapter 23: It takes two pieces

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Credit to WolveHulk for inspiration with this chapter.

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Ryuko decided she needed to sharpen her abilities, and asked Gamagori for help with her training. She was to meet him at the training grounds to begin. Before leaving, she gathered some clothing and a few other things, and Satsuki was helping her the whole while. "Going to get better, huh?" Satsuki asked. "You won't find better that Gamagori to train in order to get faster and stronger."

"I know. I kinda want to train with you, though. You wanna come?" Ryuko replied.

"I'll sit this one out. There's a little bit of business I need to take care of in the home office." Satsuki replied, not really letting on about what she had in mind.

"I'll see you in a bit. Love ya." Ryuko said, leaning in for a kiss before leaving.

"Hurry up and get back."

Satsuki watched as her fiance packed her things onto her bike, put on her helmet and pulled out. "I bet I know something she'll like." Satsuki said out loud to the empty house.

She walked to her home office and got on the internet to look up ideas for sexy surprises, as she wanted to surprise Ryuko in the same way she had done to Satsuki before. Some of the ideas she found were a little too distasteful for her, but she did see some she liked. The one she eventually settled on was one where she would leave little notes for her to find, and follow the trail to where she would be seduced. She would finally pop out of the shadows and wrap her arms around her. Her idea now sparked off well enough, she started writing sticky notes to leave around the house.

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Jakuzure received a text message from Mako, asking if she was busy. She replied quickly. 'Nope, how bout you?'

'I wanted to hang out with you. You know, get to know you even better.' Mako responded.

'Sounds good to me. What did you have in mind?'

'I'd like to learn a bit more about your school activities, and maybe your career ideas and stuff like that.'

'I'll be right over.'

Jakuzure started making her way over to the Mankanshoku residence. She started to feel happy again, knowing that her fiance was interested in her short and long term ideas. The trip didn't seem to take long, since she was thinking about what all to tell her and how she can help her understand everything. Mako met her outside with her usual hug and kiss before they started heading out. "So, what exactly did you want to know?" Jakuzure asked.

"Well, you're a musician. I thought maybe I could learn a few things from you about that." Mako started. "Stuff like how to better appreciate the music I already like by being able to understand everything better."

Jakuzure thought about it for a moment. "You want to learn all of the ins and outs about music, huh?"

"Yep. I figure, you can become a famous composer, or conductor or something like that. That could be your career. If we're going to be together forever, I might as well learn what I can so I know what you're talking about."

"I've got some sheet music at the auditorium, and there's a bunch of instruments there. Plus, we can always look up some classical music online."

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Ryuko arrived at the training grounds and got ready for her training session with Gamagori. He was waiting for her in the main ring, occasionally looking at the clock. She stepped into the ring and drew her sword, ready to begin. She looked at him, standing completely still, aside from still looking at the clock. "Are we going to start?" Ryuko asked, wondering why he hadn't said anything.

"We will, but this is actually one part of your training." He responded. "Our session isn't set to begin until 3 o'clock."

Ryuko looked up at the clock, which was reading 2:30. "We're going to sit here and wait until 3? Why would we do that?"

"As I said, this is part of your training. Punctuality is key in many attacks, as well as in proper defense."

"You were here early too, ya know?"

"I know. But the point is just that. If we begin before three, it defeats the purpose of training. Be patient, three will be here soon enough."

"DAMMIT! Okay, fine. I'll wait. But we better be going at it by three o'clock and one second."

"Don't worry, we shall."

Ryuko sat down, thinking of ways to pass the time in her own mind. She started thinking about how many things Satsuki and herself had done together. The dates, the exercise, and her favorite- the lovemaking. She sat still with a contented look on her face, which impressed Gamagori. He was used to seeing her fiery attitude and lack of restraint, but he was pleased to see she was holding things down. "I see your time with Lady Satsuki has taught you some restraint."

"I guess you could say that."

After what had started to feel like an eternity, Ryuko looked over at the clock and saw the time was 2:59. She stood up and activated her Kamui, sword in hand, ready to go. The revealing nature of Senketsu aroused Gamagori's ire. "Matoi, what the hell are you wearing?"

"It's a Kamui. Satsuki has one as well. Hers is even more revealing than mine. Now can we get started?"

Gamagori remained still, which started to aggravate Ryuko. "What's the problem, Matoi? Aren't you going to attack?"

"I'm ready as ever to throw down, but I can't help the feeling that there's something else to this. What are we waiting for now?"

"You have learned. The reason I'm not moving is to attempt to get you attacking me quickly. You were expecting a fight, and if I just give that to you, the lesson is for nil."

"I see where you're going with this. But I wanted to learn how to fight better and get stronger, not learn how to sit and wait."

"Sometimes, rushing in head first can be far more dangerous than waiting for the enemy to attack. I'll show you. As part of your training, I want you to charge me with everything you have."

"Now we're talking!" Ryuko said with glee.

She held her blade in position for a quick strike, which she planned to fake out into an attack to the side. As she came up and went to strike down, she could see Gamagori's eyes tracking every single movement, almost as if he could see the move before it was made. She went for her fake, but he didn't attempt to block it. When she moved to strike from the side, her blade hit something that stopped it dead still. She looked and saw he had moved his right hand into position to catch the blade in a way that it wouldn't hurt him. She pulled the sword free and went to strike again, but was met with a similar result, Gamagori catching the blade and stopping it. Ryuko jumped back and started looking him up and down. "Your uniform isn't even active." Ryuko said calmly.

"Exactly. Did you catch what I was going for?"

"I saw that you could see everything I was doing, damn near faster than I could think of it."

"Now you're getting it. I let you come to me, and you wasted your efforts while I just stood here and remained calm. As I believe you just found out, it takes twice as much energy to swing and miss-or in this case, not even fully connect with your target- than to swing and hit."

Ryuko stood still and thought about what he was saying, and he was right. Her attacks did nothing at all, while he just stood there. "Okay, I think I get it now."

"Try and be like the spider. The spider doesn't go looking for the fly, he just waits until the fly is caught in his web. He may not always eat, but at least he doesn't waste all of his energy hunting."

"I see. Now I know why you were able to see my attacks coming. You were more ready to defend than attack, and you were able to read my body movements to see what I was going to do."

"Precisely. Now, allow me to demonstrate for you."

Gamagori seemingly jumped from his position to almost be dead in front of Ryuko in no time. He put his fists together and swung down, but Ryuko saw it coming and was able to brace herself with her blade and block his attack. The mere force he was putting into it was enough to make her dig her feet down into the ground, but with Senketsu active, she had more than enough strength to weather the attack. When she saw an opening, she swung to punch him in the gut. He grabbed her fist and stopped her. "You're really catching on. That was actually going to be the next part of the training, using openings to hit your opponent when they aren't expecting it."

"That's why I figured you made the move that you did. You left yourself wide open for that one."

"Good. I'm glad you're picking up something to use."

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Jakuzure had lead Mako to the academy auditorium to start teaching her about music. She sat Mako on a bench seat and went to get some sheet music, as well as a couple of instruments. She came back with a stand, a music book and a violin. She sat everything up and opened the music book to Beethoven's Symphony no.5 in C minor, as she thought this was simple enough to start with and was easily recognizable. "Okay, now this piece is recognized all over the world, and is thought by many to be the most important musical composition in history." Jakuzure told her.

Mako looked at the music sheet, not fully understanding what she was looking at. "Hmm, maybe if you play some of it, I'll recognize it."

Jakuzure put the violin in position and she played the opening notes, the universally known four notes, three short and one long. Mako caught on right away. "Oh, I know that one! I think I heard the school band performing this one before."

"You sure have."

"Now, how do you read this music?"

"Well, there is a ton to learn in the way of just being able to read music, but I have an idea. How about you look at the music and try to keep up with reading it while I play."

"I'll do my best to keep up."

Jakuzure started playing the famous music piece as Mako steadily tried to keep up with her playing. She matched speed with the notes as she read them on the paper, and she started to understand some of it a little better. After playing through a couple of pages, Jakuzure stopped and looked at Mako. "What do you think?"

""I think I'm starting to get it. I just need to match the movements to the symbols on the paper, and maybe learn what the symbols are. But yeah, I think I'm getting it."

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Ryuko returned home after her training session and found a sticky note hanging by a string from the ceiling. The note read 'come and see me in my office. I have something waiting for you. -S'

"I think I know what she's trying to do." Ryuko said with a smile.

She went to the office and found another note stuck to the desk. 'Oops, got hungry. Went to the kitchen.'

Ryuko followed the trail and went to the kitchen, where she found a sticky note next to a plate with a napkin on it by the sink. 'Got a little messy. I'll see you after I clean up a bit.'

Taking the hint, Ryuko walked to the master bathroom and saw that it was empty. "Huh, maybe she went to one of the other bathrooms." Ryuko said to herself.

Satsuki was simply waiting behind the bathroom door. She waited until Ryuko completely undressed and crept up behind her. She slipped her hands around Ryuko's waist, which startled her slightly. Ryuko looked over at the mirror and saw that Satsuki was already Naked herself. "I just wanted to give you a little surprise." Satsuki purred.

"Um, you might want to wait a little bit. I'm not very clean."

"I was hoping we'd shower together."

The ladies stepped into the shower and got started. They scrubbed each other from head to toe. After cleaning, Satsuki gently pushed Ryuko against the wall of the shower and looked her in the eye. "Hey, you wanna be frisky in here?"

Satsuki nodded a yes, then kissed Ryuko. She went on her knees and leaned in to start by kissing Ryuko's intimate area. She started licking and probing with her tongue. Ryuko started squirming around with the pleasure while Satsuki was working. Ryuko was getting weak in the knees from Satsuki pleasuring her, which was helped by her hands roaming all over her lower body. Ryuko finally went over the edge and asked Satsuki to come back up. She pulled Satsuki in for a kiss. "Thanks so much for that." Ryuko said.

"You know I don't mind pleasuring you."

"I don't mind it either." Ryuko chuckled.