Jensen was in a bad mood. He paced back and forth, his brown hair swishing behind him, and his blue eyes glaring about. He was getting frustrated from doing paper work, ordering lab equipment and keeping the squad in line so his captain didn't freak out. He hadn't had a chance to relax in a while. [i]I should've joined squad 13. I need to hit something. He growled in his head. He hadn't felt like this in years. He wasn't letting the rage get the better of him however. It barely ever reared its ugly head, and when it did he usually dealt with it the same way. beating the hell out of dummies.

So Jensen went to it, keeping as calm a head as possible and started to slash at the training dummies. He could feel his mood brightening, a little, and his anger subside. He still wouldn't have minded a good fight, and looked around for an opponant. As for his current place in the gotei 13, well leaving wasn't that simple. he was fond of his captain, and third seat yuuki. He pushed the thought aside, and began to focus himself. His defensive fighting style had been slipping of late, and he needed to hone it.

Parius was lounging about the training area, on the grass, and thinking about some bad memories. He pushed them aside, and drank the tea he was holding. Ah well, at least I'm here. Hope I can do something, for once. I haven't had a good practice session since, ever. he thought, remembering how he had been training. On the fly, if I remember. Not a good practice method, but it works for me. He drew his blade, and looked at it, for a while.

He had been sitting there, when he heard the sounds of a training dummy, being hit. Wonder who that could be? Parius thought, getting up. He saw a familiar face. "Jensen?" he asked himself, looking at the brown haired warrior. He seemed a bit angrier. Hmm, I think I found my sparring partner. He walked over, and waited a bit, watch Jensen. When he broke, and rested for a little bit, Parius walked forward. "Hey, Jensen. Whats up? You seem a bit.....angry today."

Jensen looked up at Parius, his face absent of his usual smile. "You've got that right." He said. "I'm just frustrated because I haven't had a good fight since i fought with the warden." Jensen said. He Stretched out his arm and gave his blade a swing. "You up for a fight, then Parius. We haven't faced of in a while. Speaking of which, seen saito lately? I wonder if he's still in the academy."

"Anyway enough idle chatter." He said, taking a defensive stance and giving parius enough time to take his own stance. Jensen turned to blade so he would strike with the blunt side, then unleased a round house slash at Parius. He stepped to the right and slapped at parius' knee, then aimed a few light blows for his sword arm and shoulder. He held back a little to counter balance his anger, he wasn't aiming to hurt parius after all, then fell into his defensive stance once again.

Parius nodded, a frown appearing on his face. "Same here. Ever since the Advanced Tactics Class, I haven't had a good fight. And I am wondering about Saito. I haven't heard anything from him. Oh well, lets get to it then." He said, the frown dissapearing, and a familiar smile, gracing his face. He took his blade, which was still unsheathed, and pointed it at Jensen, as he got into a defensive stance.

"I hope this is-" Parius began to say, but Jensen came straight at him, with a roundhouse slash. Parius blocked it, and noticed Jensen was using the blunt side of his blade. Jensen then came, and hit his knee, knocking Parius off balance, then followed it up with a series of blows to his shoulder. Parius put his hand to the ground, and flipped back to his feet. "Damn, you are in a bad mood, huh?" Parius came at Jensen, aiming a slash with the blunt end of his blade, at his head, and followed, with a kick to his midsection, then shunpo'ed out of reach, and waited.

Jensen ducked the Slash to the head, and tensed his stomach against parius's kick. The force of the blow pushed him back a few inches and made his ab muscles sting. "Yeah, sorry. I'm not usually so agressive. I'll try to relax, a little bit." Jensen said. He followed after Parius, but didn't shunpo. As he got close, he slid at parius, trying to trip him using a slide tackle, Then rolled out of it and behind him. He didn't waste time, using his Ninjato to strike at parius' various weak points. The man was faster than Jensen but could he match his skill with a sword.

Jensen Jumped away from parius and lowered his weapon. He had a sudden urge to hold his old broadsword. His zanpakuto was part of him. but before that, that broad sword had be as close to a zanpakuto a human could ever get. Jensen looked up at parius, suddenly curious about the mans past. "I'm curious Parius, how did you die? Do you remember?" He liked to know about his opponants, freind or foe.

Jensen listened to his answers as he attacked again, trading blows with Parius and parring where nessasary. Jensen stepped in and attempted to deliver a blow with the handle of his sword, and at the same time, trew a punch for his chest, then jumped away, ready for the uncoming assault.

Parius managed to get out of the way of the slide, and blocked a couple of his blows. Parius leaped back, the same moment Jensen did. Then Jensen asked how he had died. Parius wasn't expecting that. "Well, I do remember." He said, as they traded blows. "I was sick, a disease the doctors had never seen before. That's what killed me. I was 18. Nice move. When I realized what had happened, I sorta just walked around. But, I was attacked, by a Hollow. I manged to get away. But, it went after the soul of a young boy. I got its attention, and ran. It followed, but I knew I wouldn't be able to outrun it. So I turned, and faced my fate. A shinigami saved me, and I was sent here."

Jensen Attacked with both the handle of his sword, and his fist towards his chest. Parius manged to block the hilt, but the punch connected, throwing Parius back. "I hope that was enough information for you. What about you? Do you remember who you were, before yuo died?" Parius came at him again listening to Jensen's answer. He then turned it up, striking faster, and faster, then pulled back, and threw a punch at Jensen's face.

Jensen nodded to Parius' question as his punch pushed him back. "I remember, the day very well. A viking raiding party attacked the lands around my clan. They killed hundreds of people. I gathered what men i could, and struck out as a vanguard to my lords own army." Jensen said. He parried Parius' slashes and took the punch to the face. He was to busy talking to avoid it. He fell back from parius and continued to talk. "The battle would have been fierce, but i challenged the vikings leader to single combat. He fought like a mad man, and i fought back just as hard. I cant remember exactly how he managed it, but his sword ended up through my shield, and in my chest." he pointed to the place the viking had impaled him, just under his left collar bone.

"He made the mistake of gloating, Parius. I took half the bastards head off with his own axe." With the last word, he slashed quite hard at Parius' ribs. Then smiled. "I feel a little better." Jensen slashed down at Parius' shoulder, then spun, aiming a kick for his upper chest to unbalance him. He followed the kick up with another round house slash, using the momentum he gained to deliver a harder blow. He wasn't using his full strenght behind it though, so if it hit, it hopefully wouldn't crack anything.

Parius nodded, as Jensen's story ended. He dodged the rib strike, and the strike to the shoulder, but the kick to the chest hit. the slash hit him, hard. Parius spun away, landing on his back. He sat there for a couple of seconds, trying to get his breath back. He got up to a sitting position, and fully stood back up. "Well, I'm glad your feeling better. Though my chest has takin a pounding." He said, rubbing his chest. "I can still continue, though it is close to lunch. We can keep going, or get a bite to eat." He said, but added, "I would rather keep going." His smile returning.

Jensen realised he'd struck to hard as parius fell to the ground, but it didn't stop the young shinigami's fighting spirit. Jensen offered him his hand and helped him up. "Lets get lunch, after I see your shikai." Jensen said. He could feel celestia raging inside him. She was eager to meet Parius' zanpakuto spirit face to face, although both fighters wouldn't witness that meeting, not at their current strenght atleast. Their Zanpakuto might talk about it to them afterwards, but Celestia would stay quiet during the actual battle. She avoided distracting him during a good fight, happy to sit back and watch.

Jensen took off his coat, to reveal a leather vambrace beneath it. The vambrace was part of his zanpakuto, a manifestation of the defensive side. Jensen placed the blade of his ninjato across it, and said,"Pulse, Celestia!" The vambrace and sword were engulfed in blue green reiatsu, and as the reiatsu died back down, Jensen's vambrace became a guantlet of dark steel, with clawed fingers. His sword became a flail, with a two foot handle, a one and a half foot chain, and a protective basket hilt around his hand. Jensen swung the flail trough the air, the flanged head wipping around with increased momentum. Jensen smiled at Parius. "Its your turn, friend." He said.

"You knew I had one? Thought I kept him under raps" Parius smiled. His spirit was excited. I want out. Ya, i kinda guessed. "Fine, but it's gonna get dark in here." He took his blade, and held it horizontally from his chest. "Blacken the Sky, Anokoku" The area immediately surrounding Parius turned black, and his blade became black, as well. "It's not a transformy one, like yours, but, if I swing him...." Paris swung, and a giant axe, also black, appeared. "I can make any bladed weapon, though it is random." He chuckled, and threw the axe at the nearest training dummy, taking it's head off. "Well, what do you think?"

"Well yeah. I am pretty good at sensing reiatsu, remember. I can tell." he replied, watched as Parius released his zanpakuto.The area around him turned black, and his sword dis aswell, this in intrigued Jensen. "A darkness based zanpakuto." he said as Parius decapitated a training dummy. "With an interesting ability." Jensen wipped out his hand, launching a reiatsu dagger that impaled the dummies head, seconds before it hit the ground. The dagger left a deep mark, but otherwise disipated quickly.

"Thats literally my only long range attack." Jensen said. "But its only a parlor trick really, a move used to distract ememies. I've heard it hurts like hell though." He said smiling. "So shall we begin?" Jensen said stepping forward with a spin, doing another round house slash. The flail wipped about, launching a wave of blue green reiatsu that would push Parius back, inflicting small damage in the process. Jensen shunpo'd to the other side of the man, and lashed at his back with his flail.

Parius watched, as Jensen threw a reiatsu dagger at the head, before it hit the ground. "Impressive." he said. Yes, but we will still beat him. Anokoku said. Shut it. You'll get over excited, and I'll lose my cool. "A parlor trick could win a battle, you know. I have a parlor trick with Anokoku, where, if I need to make a quick getaway. I just make a ball of darkness in my hand, and throw it where I need to get out. At least 20 yards around the ball, you can't see. It's pretty much a smoke bomb. It's just, I haven't fine tuned it yet, so if I'm anywhere near the ball, I go blind as well."

Parius finished his thought, as Jensen came at him. Next thing Parius knew, he was a couple feet away, watching a copy of himself get destroyed. "Well, that was....lucky." He said to himself. He got up, and swung his blade. A spear appeared, and Parius chucked it at Jensen, waiting to see what would happen.

Jensen's attack passed right trough Parius, and he burst into nothingness What the hell was that?, jensen though. As he did, Jensen felt reiatsu flair behind him, and turned. a black spear flew through the air, and Jensen caught it with his guantlet. He smiled. "Last time i tried to catch a spear mid flight, i got this." he threw the spear aside and pointed at his neck, where there was a old scar. "Damn near killed me, it did."

He lunged at Parius swinging his flail, then shunpo'd to his left. He unleashed another pulse wave, then followed after it as parius slid away. he lashed at parius with his flail a few times, then swung low, trying to wrap the chain around parius' ankle. He pulled back hard, and if he caught parius with it, he's pull thee leg from under him.

Parius smiled, when Jensen caught the spear. Good, he wasn't off guard. Parius wasn't ready for that pulse wave. He slid back, and managed to dodge the onslaught of flails, when, Jensen aimed low. "Oh no you don't." Parius said, jumping up, and landing a bit away.

"Well, you definently caught me off guard, my friend. So, I'm going to show you my most powerful attack. It's sorta like a Cero, but, it uses up alot of my power, so if I collapse after, don't worry." As Parius was talking, he pointed his blade at Jensen. At the tip, a very condensed ball of black reiatsu appeared. Well, lets see him keep a cool head with this.

(Hope you dont mind me using my most powerful attack lol)

Jensen watched the black ball of energy charge. It was an interesting attack, like a cero as parius had said. that brought back a sudden memory of a cero charging, the riatsu building infront of a heather shield. Jensen didn't know when he had seen that before, but it looked as if he'd been standing behind the person with the shield, and very close, from his point of view. But he'd never met a vizard or hollow who used a shield, he'd remember standing that close to them. Jensen snapped back to the present.

"Well then, lets see who's final attack is superior." Jensen said, starting to spin his flail. Reiatsu began to build up in the head of the flail. He would need to be fast to dodge Parius' attack and deliver his own, although he could slam the flail down and send parius flying into the air, but a direct hit would do allot more damage. He conisdered the path to take, if he wasn't careful, he might seriously injure Parius.