“A little more to the left Kamiko!” Tomoko yelled.
“How much?” Kamiko replied.
“When I tap you, that is when you stop!”
Kamiko was inflated to at least forty feet in diameter. She was able to stretch her body to this size in about thirty seconds. She still was not as fast as the masterful Tomoko, but it was still a noticeable improvement. Tomoko hung precariously onto the rope wrapped around the ballooned Kamiko as it tugged on the roof cover that both she and Kamiko had built after they finished the replacement door. Her hawk-like slanted brown eyes judged the position of the hovering cover over the gaping hole in the roof. She poked Kamiko’s firm and shiny blue rubber body.
“Now! Stop now!”
“Do you want me to start descending?”
“Hold on, let me double-check… Yes! Now you can drop down, but carefully! You were a little too harsh when we put the door in place!”
Steadily, Kamiko began to hover downwards. She struggled to keep her balance so that the cargo she was carrying would drop exactly onto the spot her mentor wanted it to. Fifteen seconds later and ten feet lower, the new patch finally touched down and settled snugly onto the roof. Almost immediately, Tomoko drew her knife and cut the rope over her head. She dropped down and landed right on her feet upon the cover.
“Good job my girl! You can go back down to the ground and deflate while I nail the cover into place!”
Tomoko drew a hammer and box of nails from her hakama and kneeled over to begin hammering. Kamiko slowly floated over to the ledge of the house and began to let out air with a slight hiss. She dropped out of sight.
After about ten minutes, Tomoko hammered in the last nail for the cover.
“Good thing it did not rain today! It would have ruined the floor finish!”
“Sensei!” Kamiko cried out.
“Yes, I’m done Kamiko! Come to the ledge!”
The deflated Kamiko ran towards the house as Tomoko-sensei walked to the edge of the roof, jumped off, and landed perfectly on her feet.
“You were a good help today my girl. But now I have a new task for you.”
“What is that sensei?”
“I am going to teach you the ‘Fuusen no Kata’ Kamiko.”
“A kata?”
“Yes.”
“What is a kata?”
“A kata is a combination of all the moves that you have learned in a martial art my girl. You already know the moves, now you have to use them in a sequence that will blend them all together.”
“Is this some sort of test?”
“In a way yes. It tests not only your skill of each move, but how you can use them in a combat situation. Obviously you are not actually fighting any opponents, but you have to imagine yourself doing so. And when you have to use the moves in real life, you can do it skillfully.”
“Yes sensei.”
“Now, come inside, let us get started.”
It took Kamiko two months to master the kata that Tomoko taught her. Even though it was tough to connect each and every move, she finally managed to master it to the point that she felt ready to formally demonstrate ‘Fuusen no Kata’ in front of her teacher.
The naked Kamiko stood in the dark closet as she started slipping into the new blue rubber suit that Tomoko sensei had given her. She could smell the incensed oil that lubricated the inside surface of the suit. It smelled like the beach would during a musky fog. It was a peculiar smell but Tomoko said that it would not only help Kamiko stretch better, but would soothe her nerves during the ritual demonstration. She eased her legs into the rubbery mass and pulled the suit over her hips and waist. It stretched and conformed to her curvy and firm figure, the back end of the suit squeezed into her butt cleavage, keeping its skin tight nature. Deep down, Kamiko got a very erotic feeling from the soothing feel of the feel of the rubber kissing the surface of her skin, but she pushed it aside since she needed maximum concentration.
She kept cocooning herself with the shiny smooth rubber and finally eased her arms into their respective positions. This suit was much like the previous one Kamiko used, but now it had a mask molded into it. As Kamiko pulled the neck of the suit, she began to cover her mouth with the mask attached. It covered not only her mouth and the bottom half of her nose, but also the back of her head, Kamiko then grabbed a black wooden bandanna on the floor next to her and placed it onto her head. On the front part of the bandanna were two red kanji symbols that spelled out ‘fuu-sen.’ She pulled it down to the same level as her mid-forehead and slid the rubber on the back of her head underneath the bandanna’s back. She adjusted it to make sure everything was neat and level. Just to ensure that no air was trapped under her suit, Kamiko patted her entire body with her hands to make sure. Then she leaned over, grabbed a medium-sized blue rubber strip, and tied her silky jet-black hair into a ponytail with it. Everything looked perfect.
The final touches to her prep were the grappling arrow device and the mini-katana. Kamiko wrapped the leather straps of the grappling device over her left wrist and slid them into the metal buckles attached to the other ends of the straps. She adjusted them only slightly, she did not want to make them tight at all. The loop of the straps hung at least an inch below her slim wrist; Kamiko did not want them to cut into her arm when she would inflate. She picked up the sheathed mini-katana and attached it similarly to her right wrist. She stood upright for a second, breathed deeply, and then exhaled slowly.
“Good luck.” Kamiko thought to herself.
Kamiko slowly slid open the door to the dressing closet, stepped outside, and closed it behind her. While walking out into the large open hall, she noticed her teacher Tomoko sitting with her back against middle of the east wall of the temple. Tomoko’s eyes were fixed onto the shiny blue girl, but Kamiko immediately looked straight ahead.
“Please come forward.” Tomoko said.
Upon hearing Tomoko’s command, Kamiko stoically walked towards the middle of the room. When Tomoko got there she kneeled down, and then bowed her head to the ground.
“Onegai shimasu!” asked Kamiko.
“Hai doozo.” Tomoko replied.
Upon hearing Tomoko’s approval to begin the kata, Kamiko broke out of her kneel, stood up, back straight, buttocks tightened, chest in the air, and with both feet together.
“Fuusen no kata!” yelled Kamiko.
Immediately but slowly, Kamiko spread her arms and legs far apart, still looking straight ahead. She took six quick breaths, paused, and then began the kata.
Suddenly, Kamiko began to suck in a huge amount of air. Her developed lungs suctioned the air around her and diffused it to the many parts of her body. Her slim figure began to quickly plump up and bloat outwards. The rubber surrounding her skin began to creak and squeak rapidly, just like a balloon would when it is filled up via the nozzle of a helium tank. Faster and faster Kamiko’s body inflated outwards, her bulbous legs and arms absorbed themselves into her rounding out midsection. Finally after only five seconds of rapid inflation Kamiko stopped. She was now a round blue balloon at least fifteen feet in diameter. She floated two feet straight up into the air, turned onto her stomach, and quickly floated forward.
Her right hand reached onto the handle of her mini-katana and briskly unsheathed it. As she drew her primary weapon, she swung her orb-like body to the left and swung the sword within her hand. Then her diminutive head rotated to the floor while she prepped the grappling arrow in her left hand. When the left hand was leveled straight, she discharged the arrow and shot outwards towards the empty air. Quickly Kamiko’s left thumb reached over and pressed down on a button to reel the rope and arrow back into its original place. After this had occurred, the rotating balloon-girl leveled her head again relative to the straight plane of the floor, and she rapidly deflated herself to a diameter of ten feet. Suddenly she shifted towards the right, then the left, and then forwards. When she charged forwards, Kamiko let off a loud “Kiai!”
Immediately, Kamiko drew back five feet, inhaled, and inflated herself back to fifteen feet in diameter. She floated upwards to the ceiling and turned her head towards the ceiling. Then she swiftly dove backwards, butt-first, at an angle of forty-five degrees, and shot towards the wall on the opposite end of the observant Tomoko. Kamiko stopped just one foot away from the wall, turned onto her back, and charged forward at a level angle of forty-five degrees. After about ten feet, Kamiko stopped in mid air, and then traveled to the left at forty-five degrees. Ten feet later she stopped, rolled back onto her front, did a backwards barrel roll, flipped forwards, drew her sword, and swooped downwards, slicing her sword through the air. Right after this impressive aerobatic attack, Kamiko swiveled horizontally slightly to the left, and discharged her grappling arrow. She left the arrow discharged, but began to spin around on her belly like a top. Kamiko spun around faster and faster, until her head began to look liked a black blurred line on the middle of her orb-like body. The grappling arrow swung around like a gondola on a Ferris wheel. As she increased to maximum speed, she floated upwards until she was barely touching the ceiling, and then began to slow down. After a few seconds she came to a stop, her head faced towards Tomoko again.
Kamiko still kept herself cool, collected, and mentally aware. She floated back to the middle of the room and closed her eyes. Suddenly, she flew sideways to the right at breakneck speed. When she reached the end of the room she stopped on a dime. Then Kamiko quickly rocketed to the left, all the way to the other end of the room where she stopped. Immediately, the nimble balloon-ninja flew to the left again and stopped right back at the middle of the room. Right after her stop, Kamiko quickly flew backwards to the wall behind her and stopped. Next she swooshed to the front of the room and stopped right in front of Tomoko. Kamiko’s chin was only a mere inch away from Tomoko’s forehead. Slowly, Kamiko settled backwards into the middle of the room, right where she started, and she opened her eyes.
The second to last part of the kata was about to begin. Quickly, Kamiko deflated herself with a quick hiss and was back to her slim stature. She stood straight up with her legs together and spread both her arms outwards. Suddenly Kamiko sucked in some air, but instead of inflating her body, her stomach distended outwards. Kamiko looked like she was nine months pregnant with twins. Her face scrunched up slightly as she shifted the air inside of her and displaced it within her chest. Now she had gigantic beach ball-like breasts and a flat tummy. Again Kamiko grimaced a bit and the air within her breasts moved outwards into her arms. Both of them looked like giant shiny blue sausages with plumped up hands at the ends of them. Wasting no time, Kamiko again strained and put the air into her neck area. She now had a huge blue inner-tube for a neck. Next the air flew into Kamiko’s cheeks, making her look like a chipmunk with coconuts instead of nuts stowed away into the cheek pouches. Right after pumping up her cheeks, Kamiko shifted air within her to her back; her back bulged outwards like her belly previously did. Immediately the air shifted downwards into her buttocks, giving her a gigantic pair of squeaky blue butt-cheeks. Now Kamiko proceeded to slide the air into her thighs, bulging them out to comical proportions, then to her calves, and finally to her feet. Kamiko’s feet would make even the most extreme of circus clowns green with envy as her petite size sevens bloated into twenty-nines. Quickly she wiggled her round little squeaky toes and then shifted the air upwards again, passing her legs, hips, stomach, neck, and finally dispelled it out of her mouth.
Now it was time to perform the final part of the kata. For five seconds, Kamiko just stared ahead, but then she closed her eyes again. She breathed in more air and expanded to twenty feet. Immediately after she exhaled and shrunk back to fifteen feet. Kamiko inhaled again and expanded to a larger thirty feet in the same amount of time it took her to grow to twenty. Then she exhaled again and was fifteen feet once more. Right after that she inhaled an even bigger amount of air and inflated to a gigantic forty feet. Quickly she let the air out and became fifteen feet. Finally she gulped up a tremendous pocket of air and ballooned into a massive seventy feet. The ceiling of the temple was only fifty feet, and Kamiko’s top and bottom were squished along the ceiling and floor of the structure. Kamiko’s volume covered about three-quarters of the huge room. The front of Tomoko’s body and face was smothered by the wall of soft shiny blue rubber that was Kamiko’s body. For about ten seconds, Kamiko strained to keep the mass of air within her body steady and contained. At last she let out all the air in a huge gust of wind that burst fourth from her mouth and she managed to totally deflate within five seconds. Kamiko stood back on her two slim legs in the middle of the room, sheathed her sword, put her hands and feet together, and bowed to Tomoko.
Tomoko kept sitting down with her legs crossed. After a few seconds, she quietly and steadily lifted herself up, stood upright and began to clap her hands in applause.
“Well done my girl. I fully believe now that you are no longer a novice, but an expert.”
Kamiko lifted herself out of the bow and looked at Tomoko.
“Thank you sensei.” Kamiko thanked.
“Now that you are at a higher level of quality and skill, it is time to move on to bigger aims.”
“What would that be sensei?” Kamiko replied.
“It is time to finally use your skills in the real world. You are now a Fuusenkunoichi!”