A Golden Age For Battlea (Shura/Hannah)

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Recent battles had given way to certain thoughts for Shura Kurata, thoughts of actually trying to improve herself in ways beyond simply being stronger. Her fight with Tento had taught her that overwhelming strength was something that didn't always prevail it would seem, her fight with Rio had taught her that overwhelming strength couldn't always hit its mark, and her fight with Kanae had taught her that she did not yet have the overwhelming strength that she once thought she had.

But these were learning moments for the First Born Kurata, she took each of them not as a defeat nor did she take them in stride. No she took them as a challenge, something she had to overcome if she wanted that overwhelming strength, accuracy, and durability. She had to be such a mountain that naught could overcome her regardless of who or what it was.

So it was with this intent that she sent out a challenge, to any and all who would accept. To come and face her, bringing anything and everything they wanted to the arena. Whether that was Kido, Hakuda, Zanjutsu, Hoho, or even Numbers. She cared not what the challenge was, she simply wanted one that would continue to push her further and further until she had no equal like her days within the Academy. Nanashi had shown her that Vizard's were far more commonplace within the ranks than she'd initially thought, while she knew they certainly were here she did not expect a fresh Shin'o Academy Graduate to be one, let alone be trained by her Lieutenant.

For Shura, this meant that there had to be others within the Gotei United that had strength that she underestimated, and that alone meant she needed to fight them... To fight all of them.

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For the Fourth Division, more than anything else, combat was a way of life. Other divisions had it sure, other divisions trained for it sure... But for the fourth? Well, they were much like the former Eleventh, and their strongest embodied that more than most... and even amongst them, there were some that embodied it more than that. Shura was one such individual, Kenpachi Zaraki was her former Captain and someone that, while she didn't idolize him, looked up to him a great deal. He wanted nothing but the next challenge, the next fight that would push him beyond what he was and to the brink of death itself.

For her part, Shura could never match such a challenge, Zaraki was another beast entirely... Something that couldn't be stopped no matter how powerful you were. But she could seek to achieve it. So when the first person entered the arena, she was simply standing in the center, arms at her side with one hand on the hilt of her sheathed Zanpakuto and her attention nearly immediately went to the newcomer. "So someone has finally come, good. I hope you're strong, because that's all I care about."

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Shura let out a long, exasperated sigh, it seemed this woman was not, in fact, here to fight. "The call was a call for a fight, not a call for sitting in the stands. If you ain't here to fight then get lost, I don't have time to waste on idle flights of fancy or idle chitchat. My intent is not to speak kindly, my intent is to fight mercilessly."

Shura gave a dismissive wave to the woman "Perhaps the progress you speak of isn't the progress I desire, or maybe you simply didn't understand what my message was about. Either way I don't care and it doesn't matter in the end. So either get down here and fight, or get lost little girl."

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To say the look on Shura's face was one of contempt and/or annoyance would be one of the biggest understatements of the year, though truth be told which one it was or if it was both was anyones guess. That this woman, who did nothing except sit there and stare off into space, though she was winning some imaginary and non-existent fight was something that didn't truthfully amuse Shura.

"Uh-huh..." Was her only verbal response as she raised a single eyebrow. "Look you clearly don't know anything about me, because if you did you'd know that bragging is the second to last thing I care about behind only the whiny little brats of the fourth that refuse to train enough to actually accomplish anything even remotely mediocre."

But maybe she was looking at this all wrong... Maybe this mysterious individual who stared off into the distance proclaiming to be the victor of a fight that wasn't even happening was onto something? Oooooor maybe they were just full of shit. "But tell me, oh great and wise mystery person, why is it I've already lost?" The condescension and sarcasm were almost palpable.

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While it certainly was true that Shura could be goaded relatively easily depending on the circumstances, this was not such a circumstance. As far as Shura could tell, this woman didn't even have the intention of fighting and so being goaded by mere words from her was something that was rather unlikely. The same could be said for her being riled up, such a circumstance was not present within the situation.

However, the result of this did mean she certainly wasn't expecting anything from the girl, especially not a hostile action towards her from so far away, let alone one that had no visible indicators or were small in their detail or execution. It wasn't that the flick went unnoticed by Shura, she certainly caught it. However to use kido through such a means was not something she was experienced with by any means, and so the action that she took certainly did go unexpected for Shura.

So it was that when the shafts came out of the ground she was caught off guard by them, and even as she used her Shunpo as quickly as she could it did little to get her out of harms way for very long. One thing she hadn't seen, as a result of needing to both look at Hannah and then towards the ground, was the shafts that had sprung up around her in an almost circular formation. So as she moved backwards she found herself first pinned inside, before a brief moment later being pinned quite literally to the ground. "and this is why I hate kido...." She thought to herself as she found it quite difficult to actually pull herself free.

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