[quote=AbigailTenshi] Nishiki hadn't accounted for what Shiro would do with his free hand to retaliate and thus prepared herself to take on any attack he'd dish out. Shiro was successful in using a Tsukiyubi which, after a flash of white light, sent Nishiki flying back and rolling across the floor before she forced herself to her feet, skidding a little to a stop. Her Zanpakuto was on it's way to the floor in which Nishiki suddenly dived forward, jumping over the blade as it was just about to pin itself into the floor. As she flew over it, Nishiki grabbed the hilt before flipping her body in the air to land on her feet with bent knees. Straightening herself back up, she shook her legs a little, one by one before darting towards Shiro once more, this time running towards his left arm. As she closed in once again, Nishiki raised her blade that was held in her right hand across her body, as if she was aiming to slice Shiro's free hand from the left to right, however once Nishiki was close enough to slice, she jumped to the right side of Shiro and aimed to sliced his right shoulder from left to right before turning her body inwards with her sword straight and ready to block a sword strike. [/quote] As Nishiki came back at Shiro to attack him, he watched her go to slash his left hand then suddenly she moved to his right side and went to slash his right shoulder, Shiro twisted his body to avoid the slash, as he did he then brought his Zanpakuto to Nishiki's yet aimed to hit it's side to push it out away from her, he then stepped in close to her with his left foot and brought his open left palm towards Nishiki's chest as he aimed to used tessho on her to once again send her flying [i]I must say, this is proving to be more fun than I expected[/i]