The Victorious Opposition Comes Home (Natsume thread)

[Anastasia]

"Yay," Kurumi says, summing up her feelings on that. "I'm sure you'll be keeping busy even with school out..."

Letting herself luxouriate in the water, a short silence lives.

"Thanks for saving me, Natsume-chan," Kurumi finally says.

[Midnight Sun]

Natsume opens an eye to glance over at her sister.

"You don't need to thank me, I should be apologizing to you," she says. "I shouldn't have let you get into such a situation in the first place."

She sighs lightly, sinking a bit farther into the water.

"Its the job of the older sibling to look after the younger one," Natsume says. "I guess I need more training in that area as well."

[Anastasia]

"You saved me...." Kurumi points out. "If you hadn't been there, if I'd gone alone...I'd have frozen with everyone else," she says, making a point.

[Midnight Sun]

Natsume stares at Kurumi for a few silent moments before sighing again. She relented, it was alot more thoughtful to just accept gratitude rather than contest it....

"Yeah..well...think nothing of it," she says with a small smile. "I certainly couldn't stand by and let my only little sis' turn into an ice sculpture now could I?"

[Anastasia]

"Yeah," she smiles back, enjoying the warmth of the tub.

"But..." she pauses a few moments later, thoughtful. "Now what, Natsume-chan? Grandfather is going to work you even harder now, isn't he? And you're going to still hunt after those Senshi?"

[Midnight Sun]

'Well, after what happened today, theres not much of the great and mysterious Senshi left for me 'hunt' now is there?' she thinks to herself. "I think...I'll ease up on the Senshi fixation for now, and focus more on myself and my training. That's what's most important to me right now."

Really, it was still hard to believe. All these years she'd dreamed of meeting them up close and personal. Now, in the span of a day, not only had she met many of them, she discovered who they really were. They were....just ordinary girls underneath the magic and fukus... She could've passed them by on the street and never noticed...

"If I truly want to make my goals a reality, I need to be stronger. Everything else will have to take a backseat to that."

[Anastasia]

"Mmmm..." Kurumi murmurs again. "At least training will only put you in whatever danger Grandfather can dream up. In fact, speaking of that...oh damn..."

Kurumi sighs, slumping. "We didn't even get his jacket, did we? We'll have to go get one in a few more days."

[Midnight Sun]

"Ah, you're right! I completely forgot about his jacket!" Natsume says with a face palm. "Well, I'm sure he understands, what with a maniacal ice demon trying to take over the world and all...."

"Kurumi...," she starts, after a few moments of silence. "The things I did today...melting the ice...blasting a hole in a wall...making a sword appear out of nowhere. The reason I've been so distant lately is because of that..."

She recalled telling Kurumi that she would divulge the reason when the time was right...well now was a better time than any...

[Anastasia]

"Yeah..." Kurumi nods, then looks to you. "I didn't know Grandfather had taought you some of that. It's kind of cool," she confesses.

"Did it help you survive and get out okay?" Asking with a bit of both worry and curiosity, "Because...if it did, all the more reason for you to train, right?"

[Midnight Sun]

"Yes, it did..." she answers Kurumi's question first. "But...well...it wasn't exactly grandfather who taught me those techniques..."

[Anastasia]

That gets a pause and a blink, before Kurumi goes on. "Then, sister, who did? Did one of his friends he's always going on about do it?"

[Midnight Sun]

"No...it wasn't them either," Natsume answers. "It..was someone I met through...unusual circumstances. She told me she was a friend of the senshi, and she possessed abilities I'd never dreamed of before. She awakened me to my ki, made me aware of it, and taught how to move it and shape it."

"Grandfather is capable of the same, but he kept it to himself," Natsume adds on. "I guess he wanted to wait until I was a bit more experienced until he exposed me to it. Who knew that I would pick it up on my own..."

[Anastasia]

"...Natsume..." Kurumi murmurs, unsure of what to make of it. "You keep getting in deeper and deeper, don't you?"

[Midnight Sun]

"Yeah, I do don't I?" Natsume says with a laugh. "But, its amazing what I learned, its like a whole new world of possibility. To be able to mold the stuff of life in any way you choose...its incredible..."

She raises a finger into Kurumi's line of sight, and begins focusing a small amount of ki to the tip of it, she was exhausted enough as it was. Several moments later, a small bead of light begins to grow there, getting just big enough that Kurumi can see it without having to strain her eyes...

"This is one of the first things I learned, focusing my ki to a single point..."

[Anastasia]

"That is kind of cool," Kurumi agrees, rising up out of the bath to see it from above. "You can do things like that just by concentrating now, can't you, like what you did at the mall?"