Morning Training

[Zephel]

Quickly placing his foot near his opponent, Zeph forms a fist and strikes a fast punch towards his brother.

Seeing that attack coming rather earlier before it happens, Hikaru swiftly moved to his right, blocking away Zeph's punch with the back of his left hand and aims his own punch at his brother's stomach...only to get his fist stopped right inside Zeph's palm.

Handling Hikaru's right fist with his left hand, the silver-haired immediately twists his right arm and managed to handle Hikaru's left hand by the wrist tightly. Like he expected, the redhead tries to swirm out of the clutch, but to no avail.

As swirming didn't work, his fighting instinct takes place as he suddenly jumps off the ground and kicked his brother on the stomach using both his feet and all his might.

Having no time to block this unexpected assault properly, Zeph falls on the ground hard, clutching his stomach. After catching his breath for a short while, he then sat up and wipe off the sweat on his forehead, "Good job. You're improving. Your attacks are good, but you need to work on your strength and flexibility. And as usual, your defence is excellent."

Hikaru falls on the ground the same time Zeph did, but he didn't sit up, exhausted by the hand-to-hand combat training, "Thanks. But seriously, I'm dead beat... I can't...take much more...of this training..."

"Stand up, Hikaru. Remember, we're aiming to train our endurance and-- ...Can you sense a different aura?"

[Makenzi]

Kaoru wandered around the area, no destination planned. He'd heard the sound of fighting close by. Usually, he might walk away, but a sort of fateful curiosity had him approach the two in battle, who, as he got closer, had both fallen to rest then got up again.

'Training?' Kaoru thought to himself as he continued to approach, his face seeming cold and distant as he stopped nearby. He stayed silent a moment, not often being one to speak first. "Hello." His voice came after a minute or so. His throat had been a bit dry from a slight dehydration, but it was still a soft, crisp and gentle voice, even though his speach was short and cut.

[Zephel]

The two brothers turned to the stranger, two pairs of red eyes stared at this unfamilliar person curiously. The older on was already up on his feet as he could feel Hikaru shooting him an inquiring glance. Knowing full well what his brother meant, Zephel lowered down his head slightly, just enough to shadowed his eyes, though his gaze is fixed directly at this foreigner rather sharply, almost like reading him...

After the stranger spoke a brief hello that Zeph closed his eyes, shifts his weight to one of his legs and nodded at Hikaru as in some sort of approval.

"Really?! Yay!!" the red-haired boy grinned wide at his brother's consent before jumping on his feet. He looked sweaty and tired, but there's some sort of radiant glow in his aura that made Hikaru seemed so energetic and full-spirited despite his current exhausted look. The young boy made his way quickly to the stranger, an arm half-waving.

"Hi! I haven't seen you around here before, are you new? I'm Hikaru anyhow, nice to meet you!" he introduced himself cheerfully as he extended his earlier waving arm for a handshake, then suddenly pulled back his arm and wiped his palm to his shirt, "Oh, sorry. A bit sweaty. Heheh..."

Zepehl sighed while watching his brother extended back his arm towards this foreigner. Shaking his head slightly, he swear Hikaru's over-friendly and naive behavior to strangers will end himself up getting swindled or attacked if Zeph wasn't around to occasionally examine the person's aura and a bit of reading the outline of his mind for any troublesome motives.

[Makenzi]

Kaoru watched Zephel who seemed to scan him, his eyebrow twitching lightly, a bit confused at what he was doing. When the smaller boy suddenly perked up, though, his attention was diverted to him. "My name is Kaoru." He said in the same gentle voice that seemed like he tried to force it to be a bit harsh though failing.

[Zephel]

"Ah, pleasure to meet you, Kaoru-san!" Hikaru smiled and retreating back his hand since Kaoru didn't look comfortable shaking hands. The boy didn't notice Kaoru's uneasiness at all and takes a quick guess he's just shy...or doesn't socialize much.

"So Kaoru, you want to join our morning training?" Zeph called from the back, received a rather dissapointed look from his younger brother, and shrugs, "That's if you have nothing to do. We're always here in the morning when the weather's good to kill each other."

"Nii-san!! Come on, I'm tired and thirsty, and we just met Kaoru-san! Don't you think it's a little impolite to fight someone you just met for 5 seconds...?" The blank stare Zeph responded to Hikaru answers it all. "...Zephel-nii-san, I beg your inner sympathy deep down in your heart to PLEASE give me some time to rest and not saying things like slaughtering to people we just met."

[Makenzi]

Kaoru just watched the two with his stone cold features. Seeming bored with the idea, he gave a light shrug, glancing away for a moment. His eyes caught the image of a person heading towards them. He seemed almost fixed on watching this person.

[Kimiko]

A small girl in a light blue sun dress, long silver hair and deep red eyes was running across the path of land toward her older brothers with a bright smile on her face as they came into view. She stopped near Hikaru, smiling at them both. "Goodmorning, Ani-ue. Hikaru-Nii-san." She said, nodding at Zephel then Hikaru, smiling sweetly and clasping her hands together low behind her back.

She then noticed a third person standing there, seeming to be staring at her oddly. Eyuki turned to face this new person with a kindly smile. "Hello." She said sweetly. "My name is Eyuki. What's yours?"

[Makenzi]

Kaoru just started, dumbfounded, at this girl smiling before him. His words got lost in his head as he watched her, his face with almost a surprised look. His heart thumbed in his chest and his mouth went dry. 'Eyuki...' The name rang in his head as a completely overwhelming and unknown feeling washed over him as though he'd just been slain and rose to Heaven.

[Zephel]

"Yuki-chan!! Good morning!" Hikaru's eyes lit up as he smiled back at his sister, then stood aside a bit to let Eyuki have a good look of Kaoru, "Yuki-chan, this is Kaoru-san. We just met a few seconds ago." Smiling, he suddenly felt like he was pulled backwards by a strong hand, almost making him fall off his feet.

Zephel dragged Hikaru back to their training spot by the collar. "We're still not done with the training, Hikaru," he chided. Sure he's not comfortable with his sister being near to any man he sees, but he reminded himself he's just being paranoid. Plus, Eyuki needs her space too, and he respects that. ...It's just that he's going to eye her from afar. "Let's work on speed now."

"Aww, come on...!"

[Kimiko]

Eyuki smiled as her brothers went off to train then turned her smile to the new person. "It's very nice to meet you, Kaoru-san." She said sweetly, smiling at him still. "What are you up to?" She asked in an attempt to be friendly.

[Makenzi]

Kaoru still stayed silent a moment, trying to find his words and regain his ability of speech after being dumbstruck by her. "I.... Uh..... It's..... Very nice to meet you too, Eyuki-san." He said the rest rather quickly, bowing his head somewhat in a gentlemanly way. He felt his heart beat racing. Completely confused at how he was so uncontrolled in front of this girl.

"I... Was just walking around.... And came across these two..." He said, gesturing to Zephel and Hikaru though never taking his eyes off of her.

"I..... I'm sorry...." Kaoru said, apologizing for his inability to look away. "But you're........ You...... are..... Just........ Wow....." He spoke, his mind completely elsewhere, unable to focus his thoughts on finding the right words to say to her. Suddenly he felt his face flush a bright red and he lifted his hand to cover it, still watching her.

[Kimiko]

Eyuki watched him a bit confused, then blushed slightly herself, still smiling. "Um... Thank you, I suppose." She said sweetly, clasping her hands low behind her again and smiling sweetly at him. "Do you want to sit?" She asked him.

[Makenzi]

"Ah..... O...Only if you want to, Eyuki-san." He said, his voice and inner walls swiftly breaking in front of her. He maintained a fair distance to keep himself in check around her and not do something utterly stupid.

[Kimiko]

Eyuki giggled lightly at him, smiling sweetly. She then stepped a bit closer, stopping near the tree between them and held her hands a few feet above the ground. She released a mass of energy, creating a large bench of ice. She smiled over at Kaoru after she finished. "You can sit here if you want." She said, gesturing to part of the ice bench as she took a seat on one side of it.

[Makenzi]

Kaoru's body stiffened as she moved closer, watching her in amazement as she created a bench of ice. It didn't register in his mind until after that she wielded the same element as his sinister twin. He didn't think much of it though.

Kaoru politely took a seat next to her, trying to force himself to watch Zephel and Hikaru instead of Eyuki, though unable to keep from constantly glancing over at her.