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sweetpinkpixie 
Kurumi clapped her hands. "Adam, that was great!" She smiled giving him perhaps the biggest hug she had even given him - making sure to drop her sword before doing so, of course. She then noticed the small dent he had made in the floor and laughed. He really had gotten into the swing. Discipline would come later, for now it was all about the emotion and letting go of the side of you that you feared - the side of yourself that you were afraid to face. "This is what I used to do everyday after school," she explained sitting on her knees. "My oldest brother, Ryunosuke, would always be in the kendo dojo part of our home after I got home from school - I usually had tears in my eyes about something that had happened. I could never be brave at school, but, I don't know...something changed in me when I was at the dojo. I felt braver, more concentrated, more alive than I felt anywhere else." She took a deep breath and looked over at Adam who still seemed to be very pleased with his most recent strike. "My brother taught me how to fight my own demons, fight the memories...it's the only thing that got me through it all..." She smiled. She really hoped that this exercise was helping Adam as well. From what he had told her about his family, it sounded like Adam had a lot of demons himself.
"Thanks."He sighed... He listened intently as Kurumi explained how practicing Kendo was a way for her to escape all the bullying she had received from her mean and cruel classmates."I'm glad you found a healthy way of letting go of what was happening to you while at your school- you chose peace and discipline over blood and fight...Your demons earlier, they sounded fierce- was that just your classmate demons or Hitomi demon?"he wondered, she had yelled out with great entushsiasm.