>>49014213>>49014251>>49014260>>49014320Sheeva's brow slowly lowers as a smile creeps on her face. "Would you, now?" He doesn't back down and Sheeva finds herself a bit intrigued by the notion of him trying to work on her level. 'Perhaps this will serve as a bit of amusement before the night is through,' she thinks. She flexes a single arm in front of him and says, "Do you think you could possibly handle the might of a shokan's training?"
Takeda's grin turns a bit cocky as he tilts his head. "I think I could take it."
"Lesser men have been broken by less," she says. "Perhaps it would be best for you to stick with the children's weights."
"You're not afraid that I'll show you up or surprise you, are you?" he asks, maintaining his calm and cool stance. "I might just be what you least expect."
She chuckles at how foolishly bold he is attempting to be, but thus far she is still curious as to how far he's going to take this. She wonders if Cao put him up to his in some manner... or if he's just naturally attempting to become closer to her. In all this time she's been at this base, this is the first time he has approached her in the gym, though she has often noticed him staring. Then again, many often do; she's quite a sight. While she hasn't intentionally avoided others on the team, she rarely approaches them casually, so to have one of them finally attempt to is... refreshing, in a way. Perhaps she merely appreciates the attention.
It's curious, but in a way, his foolhardiness also reminds her a bit of Kaito from around the days of the older tournaments, back when they first met, before duty, responsibility and training tempered him into the leader he is today. It seems that Takeda takes after him in more than a few ways, no doubt due to the adoration the young Shirai Ryu has for the elementalist.
>Give him a light, sweaty workout>Give him a medium, hard-to-breathe-afterwards workout>Give him hard, hard-to-stand-up-afterwards workout>Break him>Other 