After heading back home it starts raining meaning Hannah stayed inside, at least it gives her time to think.
"The only thing I got by what my mother said is, maybe there is no true meaning, because there's many meaning when it comes to strength, she never had a opinion because she knew anybody can be strong" Hannah says to snowball laying on the ground, snowball squeaks at Hannah making her start thinking.
"Come up with my own opinion?" Hannah says, she's still a child and doesn't really know what to think. She decides that she'll figure it out as she trains and gets stronger herself. there's still one more problem, and that's kumatetsu.
"He doesn't know how to train, that's obvious when looking back a month ago"
"Maybe he doesn't know how to teach, but he does know how to train" Hannah jumps up looking around.
"Mom?" Hannah shakes her head, she thinks about what she heard, maybe, maybe that's what she means, Hannah grins and punches her fist.
"Alright, time for training"
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The next day kumatetsu gets up grabbing his sword and stepping outside with no pants, at least he's wearing something to cover that up. Hannah grabs a broom and stares closely at kumatetsu, she follows his stance and movements of his swings, she sweatdrops as he starts scratching his butt and yawns.
'It's almost noon' he turns around seeing Hannah looking at him, Hannah jumps and starts swiping, kumatetsu stares for a moment longer and walks away with a shrug, however that's all to get into another position, jumping around while doing strikes, Hannah starts scratching her head, she may not remember that so she needs to come up with something else. Snowball squeaks at her, telling her the footprints on the floor, Hannah grins happy to have snowball as a friend.
"He's uncomfortable teaching even though he could, so I'll just do everything he does, it'll basically be like he's teaching me" Hannah plots from behind the window.
She mark's down all his footprints to practice his footwork at night, first she needs to get the rhythm before using the broom, she's unaware that bo-bo caught her in the middle of the night.
She once again follows his stance, doing the swings and adding the kick at the end too, only she made one miscalculation, she kicks the table upward crashing through the roof.
"What the hell?" Hannah stands up straight at kumatetsu voice,
He walks right up to her, looking at her suspiciously.
"What are you doing in here Hannah, and why did you break the roof!" He shouts the last part at her, he's bending over a little to glare at her, Hannah needs to do something fast, something to get his mind off the roof. Hannah smirks inwardly while she gets in the same annoyed stance as him, there's one thing to get his mind distracted, and that's bickering,
"Huh?" He looks at Hannah confused, he takes a deep sniff and she follows.
"Huh?" He jolts a little as she copies him, he starts shaking and she does the same, he starts moving his neck and she shudders as she hears his neck creaking, she does the same, but less quietly, for a few moments the two have a staring contest, he quickly puts he right hand up making her follow, he than puts the other one up and she does the same, almost in sync, Hannah almost stops as she sees him slightly smiling, and that's when they start dancing in sync, meanwhile Tatars is watching them from outside the window wandering what the hell they are doing.
"Are you making fun of me" kumatetsu suddenly snaps at her, she hides her vicious smirk and pretends to snap back.
"No I'm not!"
"What are you doing!" Kumatetsu pushes her face back with his forehead, she does the same as she shouts back.
"Nothing okay!" He stands up straight and starts walking in circles while grumbling, she follows can't keeping the smile off her face, he stops and runs out of the house.
"Your driving me nuts!" She chases me out and pretends to lose him.
'Alright now on to fixing the roof..but how' Hannah thinks to herself, she had no time to think that far ahead. Down below kumatetsu hides peering up at Hannah,
"Jeez what is that kid up to?" Kumatetsu says to bo-bo who's leaning on the wall beside him, he does nothing to hide the amusement,
"Learning, she's the duckling, you're the duck"
"I'm not a duck, thank you" kumatetsu says annoyed at being compared to a duck, nor understanding the meaning, or just ignoring it,
"How else does a child learn, but by imitating her father?" Kumatetsu stiffens at this and looks sadly at Hannah.
"I'm not her..father" kumatetsu says with a tinge of sadness in his tone,
"Listen she's trying to learn from you the most basic way she can, the same way a baby learns from her father" kumatetsu closes his eyes and signs softly, remembering a time 4 years ago, he looks at Hannah with an expression Bo-bo thought he'd never see, a soft and fond look.
The next morning kumatetsu pretends not to notice Hannah following his training moves, Hannah while has strength could lose to someone with skill, and every time he would look back Hannah went back to doing something else, bo-bo smiles as he sees kumatetsu smiling and chuckling,
"Look at kumatetsu, I think he's actually enjoying this, well every father in the world enjoys it when his child imitates him, doesn't he?" He says walking away with a smile, Tatars meanwhile is also staring at them, but he looks like he's trying to figure something out, he remembers the first thing she said when kumatetsu tried teaching her,
"No way" Tatars pales as a sudden realization hits him, the words, about the souls, he's heard them before,
"Hannah couldn't possibly be.." tartar trails off looking at Hannah.
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Kumatetsu also has her copying his footwork, moving light on her feet during battle, always ready to move and strike, while copying works well with footwork and swings, she needs to be really taught, and she knows just what to do.
While kumatetsu is stretching ready to move around for Hannah, she herself grabs the broom and starts poking him, when he can't take it anymore kumatetsu tries striking her, only for her to swiftly dodge, and she starts dodging and getting behind him, kumatetsu gets frustrated as he can't keep up, however it washes away as he hears her laughing, she trips him straight onto the ground, face first. bo-bo and Tatars meanwhile are watching this in awe and shock, while Tatars suspicion from before rises more, to them it looked like the two were dancing, kumatetsu all clumsy and Hannah with grace.
"In the spam of two days of watching and copying you I am able to guess your next move" she hits her head and sticks her tongue out cutely,
"The rest is up to my brain power, something you don't have" kumatetsu stands up angry.
"Are you calling me stupid!?" He shouts, Hannah chuckles,
"In a fight I don't just rely on my strength, I also rely on my brainpower, like I did just now, if you are a couple of steps in front of your opponent it becomes a easier win" Hannah smirks at him ready to set her plan in motion,
"We both can learn from each other, so let's trade being teacher, how about it?" Hannah holds her hand out to him, kumatetsu smirks at her remembering something like this happening long ago,
"You don't know how to write?" A young kumatetsu looks up at a women sitting on a branch, asking him that question from up there, he blushes in embarrassment,
"Hey there's nothing wrong with that, oh I know" the women hangs off the branch by her legs holding out her hand,
"Let's trade, ill teach you how to read and write while you, teach me how to use a sword, how about it?"
Kumatetsu shakes her hand and together they laugh ready to learn from each other.
YOU ARE READING
The girl and the beast
Fiksi PenggemarHannah belongs to a clan said to have the ability to use magic, her mother had the ability to use magic, the first of many in a long time. Because of this the other clan members pressure her, a young girl into using magic like her mother, all the pr...
