Caught in the Act

Yugiri knew exactly where she wanted to go, while she did consider using the store as a measure between the time she might spend with Rio and resuming her little travels around the world. That wouldn't be right though. Yugiri couldn't just show up and be caught like that, then dump all those issues onto her role model's shoulders unresolved and heavy to carry.

A distraction was in order to provide clarity.

Maybe Rio would be able to figure it out. Yugiri didn't think so though, if she was using a more public place and not her own special little hideouts she made when she was younger then maybe. The younger Shihoin didn't offer any hints though and was pretty content to be quiet while she recalled the way until they came across a river in one of the more overgrown natural areas of the Seireitei. Micah was the only one that knew of this spot as she remembered, maybe she should've picked another which didn't involve having to go underwater and swim into the cave.

"Hmm. Time to swim."

She stated. Beginning to undress again down to her underwear and stuffing the clothes under some foliage out of sight.

"I think you'll find it."

Yugiri was confident that Rio could figure it out, jumping into the river and swimming down towards the waterfall and into the tunnel for a few metres before she was able to come up into the little training area she had made herself as a kid to work in private and end the mystery of the clan wondering where she'd always run off to when she was younger.

She forgot to mention there were clothes here that could probably fit Rio. She had planned for larger size shihakushos if she ended up growing more when she was younger, and smaller sizes. Ultimately Rio would have something dry to wear if she had also followed Yugiri's lead in keeping her dry set of clothes hidden outside.

Going a round with Rio would surely be therepeutic for her and letting her forget her stress.

It was a strange experience like she was returning to this place a different person and with someone else of all people that knew her. Yugiri felt a little awkward, maybe the idea of someone knowing your hobby was making secret little training spots that no one else knew of was a little weird. It sure wasn't something normal or anything.

When Rio popped up out of the water she got a towel thrown at her. There was more fancy ways to dry yourself like Kido but Yugiri preferred not to use her skills as a matter of convenience so she dried herself down the old fashion way.

"We should spar. It will help as a distraction from your stress. Yes?"

She grabbed a shihakusho that fit and one that she guessed would fit Rio as well before throwing it at her sibling's general direction. It was hard to guess if Rio might have learned Shunko or not which meant she got a backless top like Yugiri wore to spare her the awkward moments that happened when someone might learn Shunko and accidently blow their top off.

Once she was ready, Yugiri looked at Rio expectantly. Not letting on to the fact that she did want someone she knew was stronger than her to test herself on. Finding situations like this was rare, even rarer was she in a situation when she felt comfortablely able to bring out her zanpakuto but that wouldn't be fair when Rio didn't have her's.

"I think I'm a bit closer to where you are now, I grew pretty fast for my age so don't hold back. Right?"

It wouldn't be much of a victory to her if Rio was holding back as they were now. It was a little unnerving to consider fighting Rio in close quarters though.

The nerves were high for her. This was Rio after all, she was both an insurmountable wall for people that wanted to dig their claws into her family but she was also one to try and climb over for Yugiri. She didn't know what exactly to expect, even though she had watched Rio train so much. Could she have changed? How dynamic a fighter was she?

It was more like a dance. That is all she could sum it up to. Yugiri remained ignorant of most human styles all through her life, Erchanhardt's style was not of normalcy either. Rio basing her own off such a style might as well have been alien to her as Yugiri was solely educated in the Soul Society techniques and martial arts. How did human expertise end up anyway? That was something she would get to experience, she felt.

A kick was easy. Yugiri stepped back, out of range of the first kick before the momentum continued and into another kick. No matter, she was used to things happening quickly. Yugiri went low, moving underneath the kick which extended and trying to attack from two angles. One hand to grab the ankle of the foot that came out to kick her while she twisted and tried to kick her leg out from underneath her. The speed was noticeably on point and she was fully focused on her endeavour of beating Rio.

If all went well then she might see Rio end up on her butt, though she was not so naive to expect someone of such skill to be played so easily.

The sweeping strike started and Rio took to the air to try and kick at her head. It was a solid move if Yugiri didn't have her free hand to intercept the strike. Her hand locked around the second ankle, with both legs in hold she made use of the momentum provided from her sweeping strike and Rio's own force to twist and throw her a few metres back after a spin.

Yugiri considered using her shunpo to follow up but it was just a warm up. She didn't want to go too hard in the first move. Instead she kept her stance up and waited for Rio to recover and continue. It'd be silly to get too overconfident against her.

Rio used flash step. That was all she needed to get serious herself. Now she could use her own experience in Hoho. When she used hoho though, it was much faster. She dodged her back again, smirking a little. It was getting a little confident for her, she wasn't supposed to be getting ahead of herself.

Once she got a few metres she kicked off again. Launching herself to the side of Rio and trying to give her a firm kick into her gut and send her flying backwards. She was getting faster now. It was becoming less restricted as the momentum of the fight picked up and got her pumped.

"Show me more, Rio."

Her words were both taunting and also curious.