Log; Complete

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When; November 12th
Rating; PG? PG-13?
Characters; Tayuya {violentflutist} & Aizen {good_and_proper}
Summary; Tayuya, looking for a sparring partner, takes Orochimaru's ally in the City, Aizen Sousuke, up on his offer.
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Tayuya arrived at the designated meeting place, a small clearing in the forest surrounding the City, looking around for the shinigami man she was supposed to meet. She had been looking for a sparring partnet, but she'd never expected to be taken up on her offer by Orochimaru-sama's temporary ally in the City, the shinigami Aizen Sousuke.

She knew the man was powerful, Orochimaru-sama didn't ally himself with weaklings, but she had a sinking feeling that the man was even more powerful than she had imagined. Shifting uneasily, she checked her weapons. Flute, kunai, explosive tags... cursing under her breath, she waited, eyes darting about warily. The sound ninja didn't think he'd kill her... but she didn't know what to think. She'd only seen the shinigami once before, after they'd held that other shinigami woman for experimentation. And she thought there was more than met the eye.

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The sound ninja's brow furrowed. In her curse seal state, she was usually able to do things physically she wasn't able to do normally, such as fling a grown man over her shoulder. But then again, she still didn't believe this was an ordinary man.

When he lifted her she dug her fingernails in, but released his arm and went sailing back, landing with a dull thud against a tree trunk. She managed to cushion the impact with chakra, quickly shoving off the trunk and back towards Aizen, flinging kunai ahead of her.

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In a blur of motion his left hand lashed out. Each of the kunai had been caught between his fingers.

"Good. I like that spirit."

He dodged to the side and tossed a novice level fire spell at her.

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His calm manner was definitely beginning to grate on her nerves.

"Fuck." She spat, upon catching sight of her kunai between his fingers. She couldn't reverse her direction now, but she threw up her arms at the sight of fire, and when she hit the ground she rolled a few times to extinguish the flames, the ends of her hair charred and smoking. She didn't know what to do.

Tayuya wanted more than anything to summon her ogres, but the barrier blocked their coming to her call. So she supposed she'd have to go back to the flute. She'd learned a new melody, one to bring out fears.

Retreating back into the foliage, she began to play the song that would bring all the man's fears to the surface.

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Aizen watched her and listened as the tune played. He folded his arms and listened carefully to the tune, then began to walk toward her.

"I don't know what this is supposed to do, but I doubt it will work the way you wish it to."

He uses his reiatsu in the atmosphere. A great, almost crushingly oppressive aura comes down on Tayuya.

"I said I want to see your real strength. Or is this your limit?"

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She watched him approach, continuing the melody, dumbfounded. This song... it brought out the fears... everyone had fears... didn't they?

But as her song continued, it became increasingly clear to Tayuya.

Aizen Sousuke was a man without fear.

Her breath caught in her throat as the aura of the shinigami came down on her, bringing her to her knees. She stuggled to breath, her lungs working in short gasping breaths. She was forced from the treetops, landing sloppily on the ground at his feet.

Glaring up at him, she pushed her curse seal, trying to overcome the crushing weight of his power. The horns on her head twisted, growing larger. Her golden pupils dilated wildly, and the curse seal on her neck pulsed, pushed almost to the breaking point with the chakra she was pouring into it in an attempt to shake Aizen's strength.

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Aizen pulled back his reiatsu and allowed her to stand and regain her stamina.

"If you had continued like that, your body would have given out long before my hold was broken."

He appraised her from a distance and then approached.

"Is that it, then?"

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Her breathing eased and she stood, trying to relax the curse seal. She shouldn't have done that, shouldn't have pushed it so far... now it was unstable. She tried to act nonchalant as he approached.

"You are... very powerful..." She grit out, one hand reaching back to clutch at the curse seal that was pulsing wildly on her neck.

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He was immediately beside her with his hand on her shoulder. He interest was suddenly piqued.

"What's that?'

He roughly turned her around to examine the mark on her neck.

"I suppose this is one of the "seals" I keep hearing about," he mused, tracing it with his fingers.

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Tayuya bent her head and took her hand away, offering a clearer view of the simple geometric mark on the nape of her neck that was pulsing a deep red.

She was biting her bottom lip to keep from crying out, that was weak, but it hurt. The curse seal wanted to go farther, wanted to consume more of her, because she'd called on it so much under Aizen's spiritual pressure. So she only nodded when he mentioned a seal, fists clenching as she tried to reign the curse seal back under her control.

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"It appears that it is getting rather testy. It isn't very intelligent to make something which consumes ones body as it is used. Short term strength is not as important as long-term endurance."

He investigated the mark, oblivious to her pain, and decided to experiment.

"Let's see if this works..."

With a quick motion, he performed a short-term sealing kido on her mark, to quell the raging energy.

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Tayuya bite through her bottom lip, just standing as he examined her seal. She didn't know if Orochimaru-sama approved, but at the moment, it didn't matter. Aizen had proven that he could get what he wanted, no matter what she tried to do.

When the kidou took effect, she glanced about, the darkness of her skin quickly receeding, her eyes turning back to normal, and the horns disappearing from her skull. Her curse seal lay dormant, thought still pulsing beneath the surface.

"What... what did you do?" She asked, confused. Only Orochimaru had previously been able to quell her seal.

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He released her and stepped back.

"I merely satisfied my curiosity. I assumed that our energies were similar, and I was correct. Therefore, I applied a power-sealing kido on your mark. I would say it was successful. Your ability to use the mark again should return within the hour."

He looked around, then addressed her again.

"All in all, this was informative. Thank you."

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"... You're... welcome...?" Tayuya rubbed at her seal, still not quite able to believe what had just happened.

"I'll be going, then." She murmured. "Is there anything you want me to tell Orochimaru-sama?"

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"Yes. Tell him that he should refine his methods of using seals, as I said before. Low-level troops and be sacrificed at any time, but more important ones should not be given that which will decrease them in the long run. Your seal gives you great power, but drains your life. It is wasteful and inefficient."

And then he was simply gone.

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Tayuya blinked. ... Right...

But she shrugged, still rubbing at her seal, and disappeared as well.