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Leeron, get out of my LJ cut.

WHO: Renji and Lyra
WHERE: The park, away from the duelists.
WHEN: Monday, March 22
WARNING: More of Renji's epic fail... or not.
SUMMARY: Renji and Lyra spar, and Renji gets training for his potential deportation. if it comes at all.
FORMAT: Para to start, than whichever works best.

Renji needed a fight he could win. After losing to Hichigo in Shikai form, it was only a matter of time before his reputation as a fighter would go down the tubes. So what did he do? He called for training of course.

After contacting Lyra and setting up the time and place for a spar, he waited, watching as holographic images of weird monsters showed themselves in the distance.

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Lyra arrived on time, dressed in civilian clothes. Pantalaimon blinking into existence as she dispelled the illusion he was hiding behind.

She nodded politely to Renji.

"Are you ready, or is there anything you want to ask me about beforehand?" she said, preparing illusions in her head even as she spoke- not inserting them into Renji's perceptions yet, but it would take less than a heartbeat to do so.

"Oh and... Remember, I'm not that tough. So don't hit me too hard," she reminded him. She could still recall their initial encounter- that sword had been scary.

"OK, let's do this," said Renji, having come prepared for a spar and thus brandishing a wooden sword he'd gotten from a pawn shop across the street. Zabimaru was leaning against a tree, radiating disgust that its partner chose a wooden stick over his Zanpakuto, but Renji paid him no mind.

Charging at minimal strength, he brought the stick down on Lyra not hard enough to do any lasting damage, but still hard enough that he would at least get some enjoyment out of the fight.

Lyra ducked out of the way, implementing the first illusion as she did so. It was something she'd done several times before- making herself invisible, and setting up a copy of herself that fooled all five senses- let Renji attack that, while she stepped back and let Pantalaimon move several yards away to watch the proceedings.

Wow, she was good. Renji sliced through the first illusion, wondering if she had Kyouka Suigetsu hidden up her sleeve or something.

He had known it was an illusion right away. Wooden swords can't slice through people. Everyone knew that. Still, the fact remained that the real Lyra was nowhere to be found.

Renji settled back into his ready stance, just in case she decided to attack.

Drat. Lyra circled around, aiming a punch at Renji's back- while with a bit more effort, she might have been able to create an illusion that would feel solid when he hit it, her illusions couldn't actually cause damage- or more than minor pain.

Hopefully, she'd be able to get away before he grabbed her.

It probably would not have felt like much more than Kon landing on his back had it not caught Renji completely off guard. Instead he yelled "What the..." and reached to grab the assailant, whether it was Lyra or someone else.

Drat. He'd managed to grab her arm. Illusion fading, Lyra started struggling as soon as he grabbed her.

"Good one," said Renji as soon as Lyra came into view. "Now let's try something a little harder. Try a solid illusion on me. I want to see how that works."

"All right."

Lyra nodded, twisted her arm free, and then played a similar trick- vanishing and leaving an illusion in her place- except this time, the illusion was solid, and she made another, identical solid illusion of herself to her left.

"Hit us," both illusions spoke in unison, grinning rather cheerfully.

"OK," said Renji while swinging his sword at both of them at the same time. Unlike the last time, the sword actually met with resistance. Still, it slid off the first illusion, as wooden swords are often wont to do when at that angle, and hit the second.

The illusions winced, red marks forming on the places where they'd been struck. Lyra liked paying attention to little details like that.

"Now," the illusions spoke in a strange, synchronized tone, "Can we try to hit you? Don't worry, we can't actually hurt you- we're illusions."

"Go ahead and try, if you can," said Renji, going into blocking stance.

And then a knife blinked into existance in one of the copies hands. It sliced, and no matter how deep a wound it appeared to inflict- the pain would never be more than a papercut. Lyra had never had much luck inflicting pain with illusions.

"Notice something?" she asked him.

"You mean like the fact that this is supposed to hurt like hell but doesn't?" said Renji with a smirk.

"You have to do better than that," he said before knocking the illusion back with his stick.

"I can't-I've tried. But it's something that might come in handy, if you ever fight that Aizen person you've been telling me so much about- Illusions can't hurt you on their own," Of course, they could easily get people to act in ways that made them hurt themselves, or their allies. Lyra shoved that thought away.

Waving the illusions away, the copies vanished in the blink of an eye, as did the phantom injury on Renji.

"Maybe not, but he has an uncanny ability to sneak up on you while his illusions are working," he said. "That's what the people from our world need the most help with is sensing when he's coming while his illusions are active."

Lyra nodded, "So... Even if he can distract you, he'd still have to get close to you in order to actually hurt you, right? Unless he's using a gun." The idea of 'magic' or 'superhuman speed' didn't really cross Lyra's mind."

"That or be faster than all hell," said Renji. The fact that the idea of superhuman speed and spiritual energy manipulation didn't even cross the young girl's mind in a backwards city full of superheroes that he'd never heard of until over six months ago really had him irked.

"How many powers does he have," Lyra asked. She was used to most people only having a few abilities- if they could do a lot of different things, like Toph could, it was just using one ability in a lot of different ways.

"It's mostly spiritual manipulation," Renji began to explain. "We Shinigami can use our spiritual energy to travel at super high speeds, mimic magical abilities, and bring out the powers in our swords. That's what my teachers taught us at any rate."

"Yeah... I can't do any of that. But if you want me to practice my illusions on you... That's fine. You can learn how to see the flaws, and I can learn how to make them better.

She vanished for an instant, stepped to the side, then reappeared with four copies of herself, all of them solid, and one standing in the place where she'd vanished.

"Spot the real one," Said the copy farthest to the left.

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Leeron, get out of my LJ cut.

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