The Salle; Thursday Afternoon.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Usually, in the downtime before one of her students arrived, Setsuna would be working through her forms to a point where she became completely obsessed with them but, today, she was moving through them in an almost disenchanted sort of way. They were still strong, they were still good, they were just...mediocre compared to how she usually approached them. She was distracted by far too many other things to get so easily caught up.

All those random little happy sighs probably weren't helping either, and she tried to shake her head and shake them away and focus on Yuunagi, but it was quite the struggle.


[[ Setsuna here for her training session with apocalypsesoon, but open for all your salle needs! ]]

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[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

And John entered, as silent as a ninja, in loose workout clothes, watching Setsuna... and blushing slightly.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna turned her head as she felt the presence of another person, and, sure enough, it was John and she gave him a nod of greeting. Turning around, she sheathed Yuunagi for the moment and walked over to him. "Warmed up?" she asked. "I didn't get a chance to bring it up yesterday in class, but do you think we'll be able to do this with your arm like that?"

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"I... uh, yeah," he said, trying not to look at her directly.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"You sure?" Setsuna asked. "Don't want to push it too much. And, well, with all the crap everyone gave me about just my shoulder..."

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"It's only a cut. More for show, than anything else." He's ... nervous now?

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna nodded. "Good. Go ahead and grab Daisuke, then, and we'll get started?"

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

John grabs it firmly with both hands and stands ready.

...and then blushes again, like a dork.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna slowly drew Yuugani back out of her sheath, giving the blade a twirl before tossing the sheath aside and also settling into a ready position beside John. She drew in a deep breath to centre herself and glanced over at John to see if he was doing the same.

He...definitely didn't look exactly ready. "...John? You sure you're okay?"

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"I'm fine," he said, starting a bit at her words, and then nearly fumbling hte sword.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna blinked. They hadn't evne done anything and, already, he was fumbling with his sword? Well, her sword, technically, but...

"You are definitely not fine," Setsuna assessed, dropping her blade and turning to him. "You know focus is important to our training, John. We can't do this if you're unable to focus."

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"Sorry! It's just I--" he stopped. Put the sword down. And blushed.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna didn't know what to make of all that. "....John?"

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"Setsuna? Are.... you a succubus?" So. Not. Looking.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

....Probably not a thing to ask a girl when her sheath was at the other end of room.

"WHAT?"

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"I mean, there was the dream, and you've made out with a lot of people..."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Someone please tell the werechicken that flailing with a longsword was not a good idea.

"I have not made out with a lot of people!"

John should feel very, very glad that she chose to focus on that part.

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"So... you're... not a succubus? OTHANKGOD." John? Flail.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"Of course I'm not!" Setsuna shouted, sounding truly victimized by such an accusation. "Why in the world would you even think that?"

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"Because of your stuff and the dream and some poking around in the books!" John had the good naTURE to look chagrined.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"What in the world have you found in books to suggest that I'm a succubus?" Setsuna flailed some more, because, really, one couldn't flail enough at a time like this. "I'm from a Bird Tribe; a callous and decietful and quite frankly as far out of the league of a succubus as you can get!"

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"Cuz you're a--" he cuts himself off before he says it, cuz he's not looking around for other people. "And the dream! And I KNEW you were a werechicken!" He steps back from the flaily cuz sword.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"I'm not a werechicken!" Setsuna shouted back. "There's a complete difference between my tribe and chickens! We're more like eagles, thank you very much, and why do you keep bringing up a dream? What dream?"

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"Fine! So you're a were-eagle, which totally doesn't sound as cool as a werechicken! And the dream where you seduced me, thankyouverymuch!"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"Where I what?!"

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"Where you yeah! And did the succubus thing! Really really well!"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna wasn't sure if she was red from anger or embarrassment at the moment. Either way, it was causing a great surge of unpleasant reaction in her and Yuunagi's hilt was bearing the brunt of it as her knuckle turned white. "John Connor, are you telling me that you had a dream in which I seduced you?"

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

He nodded. "Really well," he added softly.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

And Setsuna was quickly stopping across the room to retrieve Yuunagi's sheath. "This session?" she announced angrily, "is over."

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"....that's what yousaid!" John puts her sword down, and starts making for the exit.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

What the hell did that even mean? Setsuna didn't care; Setsuna wasn't even entirely sure she knew what had just transpired, but she knew that it made her really, really angry, and it was a good thing John was leaving, because another word might send her over the edge and smack him. He had no business of having dreams like that, nor of accussing her for being the cause of them.

Succubus! HA! Of all the...

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

And that was John ducking out the door, leaving her to fume alone. Or with other poeple who weren't him.

[henryoredward.livejournal.com]

Henry showed up a little late but not a day late like his mun for practice with Setsuna. He looked very apologetic, and indeed begged her forgiveness some twenty times as he hurried to go get Daisuke.
"My sincerest apologies, it's sorely disrespectful for me to make you wait, utterly callous, I'm so sorry, it's vastly disgraceful..."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna blinked at Henry and all his apologies, her eyes a little wide. "We...had a session planned for today?"

She knew it was probably a good sign that maybe she'd been schedualing too many sessions with people when she couldn't even keep them all straight.

[henryoredward.livejournal.com]

Henry stopped. Was this their usual day? He looked a little confused. "Wait, you're right, we don't, do we..?"
He looked very sheepish. No wonder he'd forgotten.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna chuckled a little. "I have no idea, I'll be completely honest with you. It's been a busy kind of week, with finals and training half the school. But you're here, I'm here, might as well make some use out of it right?"