Chapter 44 Looming Danger (1/2)
When Kay entered the living room, her eyes almost bulged out. She quickly covered her mouth, stopping the scream that almost came out. Master Shifu had pierced Kyle's palm with a sword. Kyle's palm was upwards, and the sword in Master Shifu's hand had struck it, and she could see the blade protruding all the way through.
Strangely, there was no blood, and slowly, Master Shifu pulled out the blade. She cringed as she watched Kyle's skin being pulled along with the movement of the sword. Once the sword had been taken out fully, Master Shifu went up to Kyle and inspected his palm. He looked at it palm up and started poking it, then turned it over and felt around the bones.
”Good,” Master Shifu praised him, ”You managed to twist your hand in time and avoid directed the blade to go through the bones. Your control is much better, but you need to practice your speed. At this rate, you're not even at David's level.”
”David? Who's David?” asked Kay curiously as she walked over to them.
”David Blaine,” answered Kyle, ”You know, that master magician who levitates and such. He's actually a descendant of the branch family.”
”Using the sacred art to do magic,” scoffed Master Shifu, ”At least he doesn't have the full legacy. Otherwise, who knows what he would be doing.”
”So you're telling me that you would be able to do all that David does? THE David Blaine?!” Kay gasped out.
”Yes ... and no,” said Kyle, flexing his hand, ”I would be able to do more than what he does. He can have an ice pick pierce his palm, but I can have a sword do so. And not only on the palm, but on any part of the body.”
He twisted his shoulders around while wincing, ”Still gotta work on the shoulders though. Still hurts like Hell when it pierces through.”
Kay shuddered, ”But how do you do it? I've always thought it was mere illusions but it really looks like it goes through!”
Kyle smiled, ruffled her hair, and said solemnly, ”Sorry, Kay. Trade secret.”
”Yeah, yeah. Okay. Don't worry. I understand,” Kay said.
Kyle stroked her right cheek, then produced an earring, seemingly out of nowhere. She looked at it, then touched her left ear and found her earring missing. ”How ...”
He took her hand, put it in her palm and kissed her cheek, ”Trade secret.”
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That's how the two weeks went for Kyle and Kay. They used the time to catch up on MIB matters, keep tabs on Kyle's past life kids, while Kyle also had to train his sleight of hand, sharpen his illusionist skills and control the Zen State. Master Shifu was slightly worried over the exhaustion that would befall Kyle each time he entered the said state, and had taken the time to experiment on Kyle properly.
They needed to know how long he could be in the state, and how long it took for him to recuperate. There were no data on this aspect, and even calls to the other Ninja Clans yielded no results. Of course, they also had to be careful and not reveal that their query was because of Kyle. Rather, they stated that it was for Kyle. That is, being a 'new' ninja (and not born into the family), he had a lot of history to learn. Master Shifu did not want anyone to know, as Kyle was still in the 'infant' stage and thus, would be vulnerable and weak if someone decided that Kyle was too dangerous to let grow.
Master Shifu had, admittedly, become a bit paranoid and had a tendency to be a 'conspiracy theorist'. Not that you could really blame him, considering how trusting he had been before. Kyle found it funny sometimes, but he felt that being cautious was far better than not. The ninja world was something that he had absolutely no idea about, and thus, had to tread carefully. He relied on Master Shifu for this, and put up with being a guinea pig. It was for his own good, after all.