"Well some one has to be." Said Reana jokingly.
"Nah." said Yusuke with a smile. "I have Keiko for that, and she is more then enough 'mother' for me." They both shared a laugh before lazily watching tv until they fell asleep on the couch.
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Several weeks passed with no missions, thankfully. This meant that Kurama and Reana continued their training regiment without interruption. Gradually the lessons became harder and harder, on both of them. Reana was far above Kuwabara's level, without a doubt, and though Kurama had expected that, he found himself ending their lessons nearly as exhausted as his student. After a day or two of gauging Reana's abilities, they began the teaching lessons.
They had started off with both of them being unarmed, for times when she, for one reason or another, could not use her abilities and did not have her knife handy. However, she had quickly rose nearly to Kurama's level in that area, so they moved on to him, using his whip, and her, unarmed. This was obviously much harder, and though Kurama would never cause her significant injury, Reana would often walk away with cuts, scratches and bruises of various degrees.
He would teacher her basic survival skills in the situations, but for the most part she was left to think up ways out on her own. She was rather good at that, and if she could not solve the problem, she would escape from it. Some would frown upon this, but in the Demons world, that was not such a bad tactic. Once that started to become easy for her, he put her in single elimination situation, where if he hit her in certain places she failed the lesson. These were currently what they were working on.
She was allowed to use her abilities, but with the new rules, she was still having a much harder time of it. She was lasting for longer amounts of time, but he still got her in the end. She couldn't stop his whip, and she couldn't run away every time. It pissed her off. Even after her lessons she would spend time thinking about it, trying to find away around it. Today was one of those days, when she would get lost in thought, thinking about how to succeed in her lessons. Sometimes she would get so stuck on her thoughts that she had to pick a fight with Yusuke just to get her mind off it.
But Yusuke was out, and she was stuck in her thoughts. It drove her crazy. The TV was on, and the remote in her hand was flipping though the channels, though she wasn't really paying attention to what was on. It was noon on Monday, and as we all know, there is nothing on at 12:00 on a Monday. Reana sighed again. It was an evil day. She was thinking, and it hurt, and there was nothing on tv! Finally she landed on the movie channel. There was some CGI/animated move on, called 'Final Fantasy the Spirit within'. After about 10 minutes of the movie, she was completely bored.
"Why the hell do they call them 'spirits'?!" (1) she yelled at the tv. "Its only the energy of the body! And if they can only get one type of energy per creature, why don't they just find the damn energy that is the opposite of the phantoms?! Then the de-constructive wavelengths would cancel and that would be the end..." she stopped mid-sentence. Her eyes widened as she tumbled the thought in her mind. It would work.... all energy had a wavelength, and thus could be negated by an equal amount of conflicting energy. She held up her hand.
'That would be, not a way around and attack, but a way through it!' she thought. Reana concentrated her energy into her hand and focused on it.
'Every one has a special frequency to their energy, all I have to do is alter the frequency of mine.' she concentrated on the energy in her hand and arm. She felt it change slightly, it was undescribable but it seemed like it was part of her but not. Unfortunately before she could smile, she lost the strength to focus and the energy snapped back to normal.
'Hmm, I'll have to work on it for Friday, but I think I can get it...' she smiled to her self and turned to the tv, clicking it off.
'Thank you cut-rate animated movie. I am glad I am not part of some cartoon.' She spent the better part of the next few days trying to generate her reversed energy for longer periods of time. During that time, she would silently concentrate on Yusukue's energy and try altering her own energy to the opposite of his. She succeeded almost every time, however she was only able to do it for a few moments.
By the end of the week she had gotten no further in extending the amount of time that she could produce that energy, however the amount of energy she could produce in that space of time had greatly improved. When Finally Friday came, Reana hurriedly got dressed(she over slept again) and ran to the park, though in slightly higher spirits then the last time she had been practicing. She skidded to a halt in front of Kurama, who was calmly leaning up against the park gate. She panted slightly and was about to apologize for being late when Kurama turned to her, smiling and spoke.
"Deja vu, ne?" Reana blushed and looked down. Yes it was true, she had been late like this a few times.
"I am really sorry about this Kurama..." He smiled and waved his hand, dismissing her apology.
"No, its ok. You have been on time for most days, and you don't keep me waiting for a long time." Reana smiled, and followed Kurama as he entered the park. As they walked Reana had to resist the urge to try and analyze Kurama's energy. She wanted to see if she could do it in a real battle situation, with out previous time to think about the energy.
When they entered the forest, they had only been walking for short time when Kurama stopped dead. Reana looked at him then she felt it too. She looked up into the trees, and spoke loudly.
"Hello Hiei. How have you been doing?" There was silence for a moment then a soft rustle and crunch as Hiei dropped out of the trees, landing next to Reana and Kurama.
"Hello Hiei, I thought that was you." said Kurama calmly with a small smile.
"So, what were you up to? Stalking us?" Reana asked joking lightly.
"No. I stay here too. You happen to have found me traveling though this sorry human forest." Hiei replied bitterly.
"Sure sure." she replied, still joking.
"Would you like to watch out training, Hiei?" Asked Kurama softly.
"I have nothing better to do. If I get bored I'll simply leave." Responded Hiei flatly.
"Very well." Kurama gave his last word and turned and they continued to walk though the forest. Upon reaching the clearing that they always used, Kurama and Reana took their places, while Hiei remained on the side with his hands in his pockets. Kurama produced his rose whip and took his starting position.
"Remember the rules of this lesson?" he asked. Reana nodded and recited:
"No weapons, energy only etc." Kurama gave her a nod, and then cracked his whip to signal that they were beginning. At first it when just as it normally did; Reana making the occasional attempt at trying to attack Kurama, but otherwise running from his whip. Hiei stood looking somewhat bored at the fight, and was contemplating leaving when Reana decided she had spent enough time judging Kurama's energy.
She had about figured out the frequency and all, and when she dodged an attack that would take a few extra seconds to dodge she stopped dead and turned towards Kurama. Both he and Hiei were rather taken aback by this move, but rather then stop, Kurama aimed and attack for Reana. This was, after all, a fight like a real one would be, and if she needed to stop she would say so.
Reana waited for the right moment and then took a single step forward to start her move. She thrust out her arm and at the exact moment that the whip would have sliced her arm she concentrated her energy into the appendage and then focused it to a reverse frequency. The moment the green whip came in contact with her arm the energies destroyed one another, and instead of slicing her arm off, the whip wound around her arm as a dry branch. The amount of energy she had released didn't just stay with what was touching her, it traveled up the whip, turning it into a dry branch. Reana yanked the whip away.
Needless to say, Kurama and Hiei were still in a rather shocked state. Reana didn't stop, she knew that this might be the only chance that she would get. She ran/lunged for Kurama and before he had a chance to react, she had him on the ground pinned with her psy-blades. She panted, and smiled at Kurama.
"Did I..."she panted "did I pass?" Kurama recovered from his surprise at her attack, and the fact that he had lost, and smiled back at her.
"Yes, you pass with flying colors."
"Yah! Good." she smiled even wider and sat up straight. She breathed deep, but suddenly her look of tired happiness was replaced with a look of contorting pain. She fell on her back and thrashed to her side, curling up and holding her head and scratching her face. Kurama was up in an instant, trying to roll her onto her back and pull her hands away from her face. Hiei had also run over, though he made no other move, his eyes were wider then normal and held traces of worry.
Once Kurama had forced her onto her back, Hiei reached down and pulled Reana's hands away from her scratched face, and his eyes widened even more. She thrashed against the two demon's grasps and let out painful scream as the burning tore though her body.
On her forehead, was a small curved mark that looked like a closed eyelid.
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(1): In the movie the energy of the enemy can be destroyed by using the de-constructive energy of another being. You should watch the movie, it is really good.
Hey! Another update done! YAY! Please Review. I now have school and it is harder to update. If you ask nicely I might update faster... Plus the wont let me update so I have to copy and paste the story into the comp so if there are any mistakes let me know and I'll fix 'em.