The Man, The Myth, the Teacher [Henrex, Nanashi]

THIS WAS IT!
Graduation was looming pretty close by now. And truth be told, dhe wasn't entirely sure what she was gonna do once she got out and into the gotei. But there WAS something she knew had to happen BEFORE all that.

A promise she'd made before she'd EVER even gotten into the Academy. By the time it was time for her to graduate, she intended to challenge the strongest person in the whole School. When she was younger, she'd really just constrained that to the students. But now that she had grown, she realized uh... she was kinda.... way leagues above any of the students that hadn't graduated! Sure if she held back and didn't use her mask then Things were even with a few people. Especially some of the ones working in a Squad already.

Which is why she had decided to extend that goal up to the Faculty. And THAT is ow she found herself outside of Professor Astillon's office, knocking firmly and putting on a look of determination as she waited to be seen. She'd even gone ahead and scheduled herself in for his office hours to ensure nothing would get in the way of things!

Her heart was racing.. Her ears were ringing. Even Amanta in her head was quieter than usual as she waited patiently. What should she even say? This man was like... a LEGEND! Wait, NO! DAMMIT NANASHI! Don't go all fangirly now! This is serious! She scolded herself and straightened herself just a little. Waiting with baited breath for the teacher to answer.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Her smile widened and her eyes went a little wide as he showed up. If she were any more excited she'd probably be horny!
THERE HE WAS! The weird eyes. The dark hair. The kinda 'past his prime' look despite the fact that as far as she knew, this guy was aNYTHING but! THE Henrex Astillon! Her smile peeled back to show teeth as she was briefly caught up in her own internal fangirling.

"Huh? ....AH! Yes! Professor Astillon! Er...Henrex? Can I call you Henrex? Ahahah, no that's..uh....Hi! YES! I am graduating soon!" All of the little nanashis in her head were running around like beheaded chickens as her mind spun. He knew she was graduating? He KNEW who she was?! THAT WAS AWESOME! He KNEW who she was? GASP....HE KNEW who she WAS?! That wasn't good, that was BAD! Instantly every sliver of joy left behind that smile as she screamed internally. Thinking about what he'd probably heard! Her boasting. Her Bragging! Her beating up other students! But wait, what if he thought that was cool? Maybe?

"I'm uh... graduating next month! I'm surprised you knew that. Whaaaaat....eeeeelse do you know?" She asked nervously, having briefly forgotten about her whole challenge thing in entirety.

Holy fuckwaffles he was so cool!
Nanashi couldn't help but smile as she was encouraged to call him by his FIRST NAME if she wanted to! "Ah, cool! Henrex it is!" Ah yes, she was almost sure she felt one of her heart valves explode. This is a little much. She ignored that little jealous hollow bitch in her head. LET HER HAVE THIS!

She promptly sat across from him, adjusting how she sat a few times before ultimately leaning in and resting her elbow on the desk as well. "Ahah, Uhhh, I had all that stuff under control! Of course nobody got really hurt. I know better than that." She insisted. Putting on what she hoped was a nice angelic smile. Though, as he went on to mention why she was here, she briefly ignored the little squee that tried to claw it's way from her throat when he called her 'Company'. RIGHT! Yes. Why she REALLY was here!

"Ahem. Well. as you mentioned, I'm going to be graduating soon. And There's something I need to do while I still can." She pointed out strictly, straightening up her posture before she stood up and promptly held out her first toward the man.

"I've trained hard. To make myself the best Shinigami I could manage. Even with the trouble I had last year. I've trained as hard as I can. Nowadays, I cant' even go all out against anyone in my main class for the most part. I've had a lot of people help me train. And so, before I join the Gotei, there's something I want." She declared, promptly putting on a big grin and pointing directly at the man.

"I, Nanashi Gonbei, CHALLENGE you, Henrex Astillon!"

The look of surprise on his face was ....well yea she expected that. Truth be told, she'd asked herself that question a lot. She ....didn't think.... much at all. Life ... ever since Amanta. Had felt pretty ....dreamlike. Having such power. But even so, there were people she looked up to. But she'd seen that effect it had had. Her run in with the cool guy of the Shino academy had .... perhaps dissilussioned her a little. Her heroes, all of them, were just people. And some of them prbably not really the people she thought they were. For better or for worse. And the fact that she idolized them made it hard to really see who and what they were.

"You're like ... my hero. I mean. you're Henrex. Taking the steps you took. Becoming what you are. You weren't born all noble and super strong out the box. I imagined myself becoming someone like you." She noted softly. Surprisingly softly, in fact, for someone like Nanashi.

She closed her eyes for a moment and held her hand over her chest.
"But I'm not gonna be a student anymore. The only way to stop seeing you as a Hero, is to see you as a Peer. A fellow member of the Gotei. Which is why I wanna fight you!" She declared, and put on a firm smirk.

"Today is when you stop being my Hero, and become my Competition."

Nanashi felt a sudden swell of excitement in her chest as Henrex gave that declaration. A final exam! She instantly couldn’t help but be hyped! She was actually going to be going head to head with Henrex! Well yo an extent. She imagined that he wasn’t going to go pulling all the stops BUT STILL!

”Absolutely!” She exclaimed, only to blink as he trailed off. Some fraction of a second it took for her to think ‘Why is he trailing off?’ Before suddenly the ajr howled around her! And so very suddenly they were in the courtyard! There wasn’t even a registry of the noise, they had moved so fast that there was no rumbling air. It simply seemed as if they had teleported!

She yelped in surprise, not the most flattering little noise but she quickly recovered and readied herself as the man turned to fave her again.

For a moment she almost asked him to go full force but as much as she believed in herself she wasn’t stupid. There was nothing to learn or to gauge from just obliteration. Hmmm….

”Uhhh well just pretend I’m any other student about to graduate asking you for a spar. And if I exceed your expectations just bump up to try and one up me. I’ll do my best to match, and then we can go from there! I know I’m not gonna win. My goal is to see what level Of effort I can force you to put in me.” she noted with a confident little toss of her hair.

All the same, the excitement was atill bhilding as she peeled her zanpaku’to from her waost and brought the weapon infront of her. Something of a confident smirk on her face. She already surmised he knew about her but just how much info regarded her strength? She had no intentions of winning but… she’d never gone all out in a spar. If she could at least surprise the man.

THAT would be more than enough~