CoH CoS (Chapter 3)

For Melissa…

Damien’s arms and legs were a blur of motion. He moved along the floor of the dojo with graceful, fluid style. He ran through a centuries old form of kata without thought or hestitation. She watched him from the side of the room. Her eyes were focused on him and him alone. He flowed into a finishing position and stopped. He stayed still for a few moments, then he turned around to face her and smiled.

“Hey there Kit!”

She smiled at him. Her actual name was Felicia, but he had given her the nickname of Kit.

“Hi Damien, how are you?”

“I’m great hun, just doing some long overdue pratice. How are you doing?”

“I’m good. I was wondering though…if you’re not doing anything, if you would teach me some?”

He smiled at her,

“Of course Kit, come on over here.”

She walked over to him, smiling shyly.

“Well, I guess we’ll just start at the beginning hun…”

And for a couple of hours he went through some of the beginning moves. She learned quickly, her natural grace leading her through much of it. Finally at the last he went through some of the kata he had been doing when she had come in. They moved together almost as if performing a dance. The moved into a finish stance and stood still for a few moments. He smiled at her,

“You did very well Kit. You learn quickly.”

“Thank you. Could you run through a couple of those defense tehcniques with me again?”

“Sure hun. Let’s say I was an attacker and I’m coming at you pretty fast. What do you do?”

He came at her, she moved as he taught her, knocking him to the floor. But before he could get up she straddled him and sat on him.

“Very good Kit…but I don’t remember this part in the move.”

She blushed and smiled at him. She learned down and kissed him. She softly placed her hands on his bare chest, running her hands lightly over his muscles. He smiled softly and looked into her eyes.

“Kit, you know that I’m not with anyone right now and that I’m not really looking to be with anyone right now. If anything happens here, right now, it’s because you understand that this doesn’t commit us or anything like that at all. That if I ended up doing this someone else later you’ll not only aceept and understand, but not be hurt by it.”

She looked back at him, thinking.

“I understand Damien.”

She leaned down again and kissed him, this time more deeply. He kissed her back and ran his fingers softly through her honey colored hair…

Tenchi

“…the cultivation of the mind, the body, and the soul, and we must always cultivate the soul.”