Waiting...

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Sorcha walked down the hall of neglected classrooms on the third floor. It always amazed her that in this one building there could be such disparity between the floors. Down on the first floor there was noise, activity, laughter and learning, but here on this forgotten floor there was dirt, broken furniture, silence and a sense of something that she could only call waiting.

She entered one of the dorm rooms, sat on the dusty bed and leaned back against the wall. She looked around and wondered if the school would let her clean this up and stay here instead. She had already scouted around and knew there was enough room to practice using her powers safely.

She heard someone shouting for a fellow student to "wait up" and was glad that they were not talking to her. She hated the small talk she was supposed to make, the everyday conversation got on her nerves. She closed her eyes and tried to examine this feeling that was rolling through her, she detested her emotions, they were so messy but most of all they were unpredictable. She turned her thoughts further inward ignoring her surroundings, and all she got for her inner turmoil was the realization that like the empty rooms, she felt like she was waiting....
 

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Nakata Ishikawa often used the empty rooms on the third floor for training. He had undergone some changes recently and he wanted to skill himself out. He began with Bujinkan taijutsu, the quick thrusts and open hand strikes as well as clever foot work was a good starting point. As he let his instincts take over, he began to alternate between styles, at one point jumping into the air and spinning twice before extending his right leg, which would have caught an enemy of average height on the top of the head, and his left leg which extended with the spin and would have caught an enemy under the chin. As he landed on the ground, his left leg hit first. The second his right foot hit the ground, he rolled forward, coming up on his right hand so that he was doing a handstand with just it, and kicking once with his right foot, then immediately leaning to the right, and flipping backward, and again jumping into the air and spinning, with his right and left legs kicking alternately with the spin, before landing, flipping backward, and leaping forward to deliver a dual palm thrust.

This was his routine now, he mixed the martial art forms his father and mother had taught him, and then incorporated those into his capoeira routines, thus, adding a degree of extra power and the ability to fight in close quarters that capoeira wouldn't normally allow.

<a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsbVyGtQo4g' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Example of some of what he was doing. Watch both of them</a>
 

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Sorcha came back from her inner thoughts only to suddenly learn that she was not alone up here on the old floor. She stood her tall frame up and was irritated that she was not alone when she had felt safe letting her guard down. She immediately went into her public persona and became that cold and intimidating student.

She moved silently down the hall trying to find the source of the intruder, prepared to scare whomever it was into leaving. All the way down and to the right was a room with an open doorway and dust particles dancing in the sunlight streaming through the window. She now knew where the offender was, she picked up her pace intending to get done what she had to.

She stopped at the door and that is when she saw him. She knew he was a student here but nothing other than his name, Nakata, and that the other students talked about his white hair and violet eyes. The girls, especially went all ooh and ahh about him. She watched silently as he practiced, his jumps, spins and kicks. It was, for lack of a better description, poetry in motion. However, she still didn't want him here, she wanted to be alone, it was so much better to be alone. She stepped further into the room, stood with her hands on her hips , and said confrontationally, "Hey, you"
 

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Naka stopped mid kick and spun on his free hand and then dropped onto his feet.
"May a helpu you?" He said to her, panting slightly, he picked up his shirt from a nearby chair to put it on. There was no sense in showing off to a lady just because the opportunity was there. It had been a while since someone had randomly called out to him. Not too long, but the last time it had been done there was a weasel and it had called him 'two tone.'
"please let her speak japanese." he thought in his head.
 

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Sorcha heard the student named Nakata ask her if he could help her. She stared at him coldly and wondered the best way to get him to leave. What tactic could she use that would end this social interaction the fastest. "I thought I was the only one up here and because I was here first I want you to go now" Oh great, well there you go, she actually didnt care if she hurt his feelings or anything but she did not want some long drawn out conversation.

She continued to eye him and waited for him to respond. She heard the lunch bell in the background and knew that students would be running to get the latest in a long line of disgusting offerings that they tried to pass off as nutritional fare. She was hoping to stay up here until her next class and that meant unless she could get this Nakata guy out of here she would have to go back to her room, but she was getting tired of that being the only place she could be herself. She finished her thoughts and returned her gaze onto him and started wondering if he was ever going to say anything.
 

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Naka shook his head and tousled his hair to at least get it in the same direction, but despite the pouty look on the girl's face he wasn't just about to leave because she asked. He didn't have any extra classes today and he was training, though he was taking a break now for both lunch and because the girl had asked him to leave, though he had a solution to both.
"I am solly, I do not speaka bery good engrish." He said with a smirk before going over to his bag and pulling out a homemade bentou he had made in his home economics class that morning. The only reason he took home economics was to make lunches but he took a seat at a table and took the dividers out of the lunchbox to make the food easier to get. Inside were rice balls of three different kinds, sashimi, red bean buns, and terriyaki chicken. Additionally he pulled a large thermos out of his bag and as it opened, steam poured out. Today's tea selection was peppermint milk tea.
"Ara you hungri?" He asked, his broken english shining through, and the same smirk that he'd had when he told her he didn't understand what she was saying played on his face.
 

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Sorcha mentally rolled her eyes when she heard Nakata say he did not speak very good english. She could have believed it, there were, after all numerous students from all over the world at the academy, however it was his smirk that made him a liar. She then watched incredulously and even irately as he got out his lunch and sat down. My Goddess!, did he just not hear her say she wanted him to go?

He then asked in that farce of broken English if she was hungry, and again with that smirk on his face. She started seething inside, did he really think she was stupid?, was he like the others who only saw her size and assumed that she was empty headed? Well she would show him, "Yes, I am as a matter of fact, are you going to share?" she asked him in Japanese
 

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Nakata looked at the girl the moment she started speaking japanese. Now this was a surprise. Gathering she was also foreign from her accent and her manner of speech, he didn't expect her to speak that one but he was thankful for it.
"Well this is a surprise. But of course I'm planning on sharing." He said as he pulled out a second set of chopsticks and setting them over the edge of the lunchbox for her. He also poured some tea in the thermos cap for her and slid it over to the other side of the table.
"I promise it's better than what they have in the cafeteria." He said also, still speaking in japanese.
 

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Sorcha hesitated just inside the doorway. She debated whether to go over and sit down or just turn around and leave. Leaving, after all, is what she should do, and what she wanted him to do. But for some reason, she found herself walking over and sitting down across from Nakata. She picked up the chopsticks and looked over the fare in front of her and happened to agree, "anything is better than the cafeteria food"

As she leaned over to take some sashimi, she looked up at the boy in front of her. She wondered why his hair was that white with the black in it, was that natural or did he dye it that way to make a statement ? Then there were those eyes, she figured that was the real reason the girls went after him. He was alright looking she guessed, if you liked guys that were different.

She then remembered the moves he was doing when she first walked in, whatever it was he seemed pretty skilled. She wondered what his powers were and what his story was. Before she knew what she was doing she found herself voicing her questions out loud, "So who are you and what are your powers?"
 

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Naka looked at the girl. She didn't seem like the snobbish type but he couldn't quite put a finger on her. still, he took a bit of sushi and grabbed a rice ball from his lunch box.
"My name is Nakata Ishikawa and Spontaneous Cellular regeneration is my power, my cells undergo mitosis at a rapid rate in the area where an injury occurs so that an injury closes before it can get a chance to be serious." He explained in Japanese, a good thing too because he couldn't have explained it like that in English and would have had to show her the way he had shown someone else in the past. He withdrew a small dagger from his belt and drew it across his throat only to have the cut heal almost as quickly as it was made. He then twirled the weapon in his hand before sheathing it once more. using a paper towel, he wiped the blood away and displayed the completely unscathed throat. It was a demonstration that constantly kept him on his toes. The adrenaline rush was unlike anything he could experience in such a mundane setting.
"you don't have to tell me yours, I'd rather know about you yourself and your power isn't what defines you. We could start with your name." He said.
 
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