It turns out that yes, I could in fact learn Occlumency. So, for the next two weeks that's what we worked on. First thing you need to know about the practice, It requires that you have someone enter your mind and pull you into it as well. Then you have to revisit your memories. Let me tell you. It wasn't fun. Two weeks sun up to sun down meditation. Reviewing my memories took it's toll on me. From my earliest which were muddy and unclear through adolescence, to adult hood. After that two weeks I spent the next two weeks with Akisame and Harriet learning to speak Japanese. Then it was back to training. My physical training was peppered with quizzes for the effectiveness of my lessons. It did prove to be effective. I was able to speak mostly fluent Japanese. So by the time Kenichi brought in Takada and Ukita I was able to wander out to find a fight.

I decided to step out as a girl, and I mean that literally. It took me an embarrassingly long time to remember, but with the help of Miu Furinji I finally did.

FLASHBACK

I was currently running through a set of stances on a small group of raised one-inch-wide platforms. Miu was also helping me when I made errors, this of course had been causing Kenichi to feel jealous, except for days like today where I was dressed fem. Which was a good part of why I'd been spending most of the last two weeks while training with Harriet and the Masters dressing and being more feminine. Not that I hadn't spent any time as masculine but it was what it was.

"Hey Dakota," Miu asked after correcting my form again, for what felt like the hundredth time. "Can I ask you something?"

"You just did." I snarked back with a grin. "But sure, ask away."

"Are you an otokonoko?" she asked hesitantly.

That caused me to pause for a moment. The translation wasn't something I understood because the only time I'd ever heard that word was in regards to an anime. Did Miu just ask me if I was a prostitute?

"What does that word mean?" I asked, turning to face her with a cocked eyebrow.

"Um it's when a man dresses like a woman and lives that way. But you don't dress just one way." She said quickly trying to not offend me I think. Her worried expression reminded me that she was just a socially awkward teen with only one real friend at this point. I hopped down off the training post and pulled her into a hug.

"Miu it's ok I'm very thick skinned." I told her soothingly. "I'm not mad at you. You will have to work very hard to make me mad. I thought that word meant something else. Nut, no I'm genderfluid. Sometimes I present as male sometimes as female. It was harder to live with in my original body than this one though let me tell you. In fact, I used to joke to a friend of mine that if I could have any magic item, I'd..." I trailed off slowly. I could have any magic item now, couldn't I? I took a moment to focus on what I wanted and reached out. When I opened my eyes, I had to smile. Sitting in my palm was a walnut seized glass bead, with blue, pink, and white smoke swirling inside.

Clenching the tiny sphere in my hand I whispered. "Change." Pink smoke swirled out of my clenched hand and enclosed my body from view. When the smoke cleared out, I found myself uncomfortable. My clothes were snug in the wrong places. I had to quickly adjust but I smiled while doing it. No longer having the male anatomy it was replaced with a slimmer waist, wider hips, and a modest C cup chest. I had to bite my tongue to keep from screaming happily. I looked at Miu and had to suppress a smile at her wide eyed look of awe. Then I heard the rapid clicking of a camera. It seemed Kensei had seen my new look. I began to pose for the pervert after a few pictures he nodded happily, that's when I decided to fuck with him.

"Oh Master Ma I didn't realize you had a thing for girls who were born male. You should have said something!" I said cheerfully catching him in a hug from behind. I could feel his body freeze. Then I smirked evilly as I felt a shudder run through his body.

"I have things to attend to." He said hastily and disappeared from my grasp followed by the sound of my laughter.

FLASHBACK END

But yeah, I stepped out as a girl. I was currently walking through the streets looking for someone to fight. What I found was a group of girls chasing Kenichi through the streets. I felt myself kind of drain away in disgust at the sight. These girls were obviously Freya's Valkyrie. The thing that was causing me a headache though was watching a real person let five young women beat seven shades of shit out of him because he didn't feel that men should hit women. The sheer misogyny that it took to take that ass whipping was giving me a migraine. After watching this for like five minutes one of the girls noticed me.

"You got a problem you cosplay gaijin?" She asked aggressively pointing a sai at me. I looked at her through half lidded eyes.

"Honestly I don't know which of you is more pathetic." I answered honestly. "The fact that he's just letting you all beat on him, or the fact that even with five people you can't seem to take down one person."

This caused an outraged pause from the girls and a depressed sag to appear in Kenichi's shoulders.

"I don't believe a man should hit a woman!" Kenichi declared boldly straightening up in his determined pose. I gave him the look that comment deserved.

"You know what bitch I think you want some too." The girl with the sais said angrily. I turned to her with a blank look.

"I'm only going to warn you once little girl." I hissed in a chilling voice. "I won't stand and let you attack me like he is. If you attack me, I'll beat the hell out of you." I said all this while taking off my tee-shirt. I twisted it around both of my hands with the majority of it between my two hands.

"Have you no shame?!" She roared hysterically at me. Pointing one of her sais at my bra covered chest. I didn't bother taking my eyes off of her.

"No I don't and anyone that does is a fucking moron." I said advancing towards her. She reared back her right hand chambering a strike her left held its sai perpendicular to the ground. Hm that means she at least not dumb enough to charge blindly I guess.

She watched me intently for a few seconds before charging me with a roar shooting the right sai out in a strike towards my stomach. Unfortunately for her that's what I was waiting on. I wrapped my shirt around her wrist then jerked it to the side putting her into a modified armbar. Then as she cried out in pain and shock I reared back and kicked her in the temple silencing her with contemptuous ease. That turned out to be a good thing because two more of the girls had charged me when she cried out. One girl held a pair of war fans and the other wielded a pair of tonfa. I dropped my shirt and grabbed the now unconscious girl's sai. And I knew as soon as it was in my hands that it was a horrible idea. Sai are not knives. They aren't made the same, don't balance the same way, nor are they used for the same thing. So I did the natural thing. I threw the Sai at the girl with the tonfa. She crossed her arms in front of herself. I was already moving. I shot my right foot out and drove it into her stomach and under her ribs. That did the trick. She dropped to her knee throwing up violently.

I backed away from her and turned to the stunned girl with the bo staff. She was looking at me with trepidation. I grinned evilly at her and advanced. She had the reach, but she was afraid. She was being sloppy and not very precise with her strikes. She swung the staff at my head, I ducked and continued to advance. She backed away again, swinging for my right side. This was probably my best chance, so I allowed the blow to land. And if you are a guy let me just say this. The breasts of a female human, even the smaller ones, are very sensitive. It HURT, a lot. So what I did next was as much a result of anger as it was a decisive end to a fight. With my right hand firmly clutching the staff I drive my left fist into her throat. Her eyes bugged out and she let go of the staff to grab her throat. This was her last mistake of the fight. Because I knew how to use a staff. I spun the weapon behind my back and slammed it into the side of her head sending her off into dreamland. I finished my fights with one girl gasping and whining and two girls unconscious. I turned to find Kenichi trying to keep Shigure from shishkabobing the remaining girls.

I grinned viciously as she shredded the girls' clothing. When they started to shriek and tried to run away, I stepped into their way.

"Don't leave your friends laying in the street girls." I said darkly amused. They forgot the state of their clothes and grabbed the girls before retreating. I smirked at their retreating backs before I felt a chill run up my spine.

"Its time...to come...home, now." Shigure said from my right side. I will let you know that I did not jump, scream, or faint. I did, however, flinch away from the swordswoman. Once I had my breathing under control, I nodded to her. I followed her and Kenichi back to the Dojo. Along the way Kenichi was refusing to talk to me. Not sure what that was about but I honestly don't care either.

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The next 'canon' event to take place was the trip to Furenji Island. I admit that the boat was hilarious. Especially when Kenichi was almost dying from the pedals. Don't think I wasn't on them with him, but I was much stronger than he was. After all the masters had requested that I not give him any of the life items until he was of a better constitution. So while the Masters and Miu had all taken a few of the life stones and fruits. Kenichi was still a noodle. Which kind of made me smile. I know kinda dick move, I know but whatever. Anyway Kenichi and I had been paddling for about six hours and we were both feeling it. I was honestly as happy as I can remember being when Sakaki and the Elder took over. It was cool seeing them make a peddle boat move faster than a speed boat, but it also made my head hurt. Luckily the trip wasn't much longer, after the masters took over. When the trip was over, I slogged my way off the boat. My head was pounding, and I could barely see. My stomach was churning, and I was only keeping myself from throwing up through sheer willpower. I felt a had rest on my shoulder. I looked up with my vision blurred to find Harriet holding out a small bag. I didn't know what was in it at first till she shook it, causing the talismans inside to clink around. Why had she brought them? I thought blurrily.

"Use it." She said offering the bag to me. I reached for the bag. Inside were all twelve Talismans. I searched through them to find the horse. I pushed a bit of power into the Talisman and sighed in relief as the Horse Talisman's magic washed over me taking the motion sickness away.

"So why did you bring these?" I asked jingling the bag of Talismans.

"You said that you knew a way to implant them into your body?" She asked with an arched eyebrow. "I would prefer it if a dozen Powerful magic artifacts weren't left laying around for whomever wishes to take them."

I could feel my eyebrow raising at her explanation. "i do..." I admitted but let the thought trailed off.

"Ok?" She prompted looking at me in expectation. "What is it?"

I looked at her through half lidded eyes. "I'll need to grab some from Uncle Chan."

It was her turn to point a deadpanned look at me. I watched her waiting for, something, but she finally asked. "Well?" Gesturing impatiently.

"Oh." I said feeling like an idiot. I closed my eyes and reached into the blind eternities. I reached for the time that Uncle made the potion to steal the talismans from the full powered Shendu. I waited until he had covered His own, Jade's and Jackie's hands before taking what was left in the bottle. When I opened my eyes and looked at Harriet Potter, I could see the look of interest at the potion in my hand.

"How does this work?" She asked gazing intently. I arched an eyebrow. "I pour the potion on my hands and stick the Talismans into my body." I told her before doing just that. Once all twelve of the Talismans were imbedded inside my body I smiled at her. Then I frowned thoughtfully. How do I activate these things? I wondered. Do I just think of breathing fire? …..I felt myself warming up from my chest, to my throat. My eyes widened and I quickly turned away from her and opened my mouth. A fireball the size of a mini-cooper flew from my lips and slammed into the beach and exploded. A large swath of the beach turned to glass, leaving white starbursts in front of my eyes. I looked at Harriet dumbfounded.

"Did you mean to do that?" She asked me with a slightly worried look. I mutely shook my head with an equally worried look.

"You're going to have to learn how to control this." She said seriously. I nodded looking back at the glassed beach, even as the masters came to investigate the explosion. 'Well this is going to be interesting.' I thought watching them come towards me.

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AN. I WILL BE CHANGING THE POINT OF VIEW OF THIS STORY FROM FIRST PERSON TO THIRD. I AM HAVING TROUBLE COMPLETING THE CHAPTERS WITH THE CURRENT VIEW AS WELL AS HAVING A HARDER TIME WRITING THE STORY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING.