Vaani felt as though she diligently climbed up a few Mountains in breakneck speed, instead of going for a practice spar with Megha, She still found unbelievable that Megha was already up from resting and wandering around the training area for something.
' Well it's much better than my first condition' spar with Megha a few days back' she thought to herself but there was no happiness or anything in her face and only seriousness could be seen.
At their first 'condition' spar even though Vaani know she was no match for Megha and was easily trounced until she can't get back to her feet she didn't feel like this, yes Megha was little ruthless and Uncompromising with their spar these days but even when she exhausted Vaani hoped there was a chance for her to catch up with Megha eventually.
But in the last couple of days she was dealt yet another blow, which made her lost the remaining hope become concernedly dispirited with all of this training she, almost didn't want to train with her, ' How could Megha recover her stamina this fast.... and wasn't she adapting to our spar little too fast? What kind of speed is that? '
It's true Megha overpowered her from the first day but each training felt like fast paced one sided progress to her if she remembered correctly at their first training Megha wasn't much better than her when they were recovering from the spar ' Maybe a little bit better! but not this exaggerated like now '
From the second day it even became exaggerated. The comparison between the two made her look like some trash when compared to Megha. Well she could understand Megha's comprehension ability was the only thing better than her she could take it.
As Vaani's natural affinity was much better than megha's in comparison, Vaani's metal and earth affinity each had high purity and attraction compared to Megha's, who had three affinity barely reaching a high level.
It could be said the affinities are something to do with ones spirit and soul, a human spirit has limited capacity when it was in the human body thus the lower the number affinitis a person have higher the person control over them easy to utilize them unless of course they have restricting elements which restrict one another.
Vanni already came to the conclusion, as she also heard about this when aunt Madhu mentioned it to her one time that Megha has an innate special physique of unknown name 'Maybe her physique had the ability to improve one's stamina and recovery speed...How envious!'
Vaani wouldn't admit to anyone but she was really envious of this special physique and its capabilities ' Why didn't I born with one such a physique, isn't it too unfair? If this goes on....' she had a slightly troubled look on her face.
Her thoughts got distracted when she noticed Megha coming back with something in her hand. Holding a big enough mug made out of some grayish blue material she walked a little slower than usual as if she was concerned about whatever inside might get spilled to the ground.
Vaani's eyes kind of dazed. She was neither thinking about those things or what she got for her but her eyes focused on Megha's figure as she walked towards her.
Vaani subconsciously gulped her saliva, the setting sun cast orange rays on Megha's creamy white skin making her strange glow and with that fiery red hair cascading behind her back gently swayed along with the gentle wind giving her the feeling she was descended from heaven.
Her training outfit clung to her curves making her figure stand out more, while her careful lithe gaits showed off her long legs and graceful swaying of hips in somewhat enchanted scenery. Vaani couldn't look away from the sight with due to the sunlight she could almost see through the outfits and imagine everything.
Vaani became a little excited, her heart thumping loudly while her chest rose and fell with slight trembling of her body and her breaths came out in gasps like her mouth becoming dry and her throat parched.
Although Megha wasn't fully grown up to the prime of her youth, her sufficient nutrition supply and effect of having good genes from her parents coupled with her innate physique started to showcase her budding yet outrageous figure in that Outfit.
Megha stumbled out of her random lamentings thoughts, when she noticed an unusual scene and almost mistakenly believed something else ' Damn! Was I gone little overboard with today's training or her condition doesn't seem getting any better'
Megha frowned little ' No I don't think that's possible at least she wouldn't have been out of breath like this long. Yesterday spar wasn't much.... could it be today she got some internal injury from our spar?' she suddenly thought of a problem.
Megha couldn't calm down and became a little fretful. She was very sure, she controlled her strength and speed with great precision, then how could she careless enough to injure her and not even realize Megha's heart ache then the very next moment her expression and pace froze.
But as quickly she regained her bearing, a thin mocking smile adorned her lips, her eyes narrowed ever so slightly, she was little embarrassed by Vaani's ogl- ahem, intense stare and immediately misunderstood things.
'Oh My God! Big Sister, weren't you supposed to be subtle about your feelings or careful around me? What's with that expression?' She complained and also felt a little uncomfortable. 'Big sister How do you think I should deal with this? Aren't you making things difficult for me? I couldn't play dumb, not when you were making things this obvious, what exactly are you doing?'
Megha suddenly brought up the cup in front of vaani's eyes scaring her out of her blank but perverted expression " Big sister, here drink some water you look really exhausted "
The mug of water in Vaani's hand is more or less empty after she takes two large gulps coupled with her shaky hands spilling nearly one third of the water. Megha found it funny as Vaani tried her best to not stare at Megha's body or look nervous while trying to control her trembling hands so kind of tense silence between them.
It was only after she felt something weird with her, did she noticed that the thing in her hands were neither metal are made out of clay but some kind of jade she only now realize the water has strong soothing effect on her tired body she regretted spilling water ' Was that some kind of water with magical properties? '
Her tiredness and soreness eased in that short few minutes, she wondered what Megha put into the water she didn't want to be the one to initiate the conversation first when she just got caught for ogling.
Megha took pity on her big sister's awkward expression and casually threw a comment " Big sister, I didn't know you were having this kind of hard time during our spars! wasn't your sacrifice a little excessive?"
"Huh?" seeing Vaani's confused expression Megha elaborated patiently.
"I Mean, shouldn't you at least tell me, you were having trouble following our training procedure.... well I could obviously tell by taking one look you were struggling to regulate your breath... we don't even have to talk about recovering your stamina or ease soreness, you were taking a longer time to recover the last two days too .... i think big sister your body condition wasn't optimal or most likely you aren't suitable with this kind of training " Megha acted like she was a little ignorant and misunderstood things.
Vaani's lips twitched at the comparison and didn't know whether to laugh or cry at her misunderstanding but didn't dare to make things clear but Megha continued with her observation.
" We better do things with moderation okay.... once we go back- I'll ask my father or uncle to derive a suitable training method for you, big sister... you don't have to endure suffering like this you know?"
"W-WHAT?...Listen don't do anything li-" Vaani panicked a little when she heard this 'Oh God! What will they think of me? they will take this as a sign of My Incompetence ' her mind was in mess when things turned out like this.
" I know what you are going to say, Don't be so stubborn alright?" Megha looked a little impatient with her friend's stubbornness " Is that really necessary, are you feeling jealous or something?....When you were the one being best of us I didn't get all this worked up have I? '' Megha chided Vaani and tried to enlight her matter of factly.
"Nothing will come out of a brute and reckless way of training, didn't my father tell you recklessness might ruin our future at this age in our life? What would happen if you crippled your body? '' Megha advised the other party with a serious expression. "Do you think I can bear it if something like that happens to you?"
Vanni felt extremely touched by Megha's sincere words, felt sweet in her heart, as she turned her head away in embarrassment before grumbling for the other party's benefit.
"Well not everybody is born with a special physique or talent like you, so Little Missy please forgive me for dragging you down!" There was not even a shade of her previous envy that could be seen now as she only said that to cover things up but the look in her eyes became much more tender.
But the very next moment Vaani got attacked in an unexpected way, Megha grabbed Vaani by her waist before pulling Vaani to her lap, with her other hand reaching out groping one of the soft bosoms and roughly kneading them earning a surprise yelp from the other party.
Vaani's face flushed like lotus flower and surprised by Megha's unexpected actions and boldness she struggled little to get away from her but after less than a minute she was quick to surrender and hang her head in embarrassment, protest in soft voice.
" What were you thinking? Why are you doing this? Someone is going to walk in here?" Her voice was very low but despite her feeble struggle or protest she was barely held onto her rationality; she looked like she would submit to whatever the party wanted to do.
Meagha asked with a teasing smile " Why should I care about whether someone is going to walk on us or not? Aren't you starting this first? If you are so shy then you shouldn't try to provoke me or tease me in the first place then why care?"
When she noticed Vaani's blank look Megha mocked her " Don't even bother to trick me, I clearly saw you were looking at my small breasts and thin legs, hmph I'm going to teach you a good lesson today"
Vaani become little speechless and recalled her lascivious gaze and also little glad for another wonderful misunderstanding she didn't know how to feel about this misunderstandings with her mind ' I guess I didn't get used to seeing her in such a attractive cloths... well it would be awkward between us if Megha really understood the my thoughts behind my gaze '
Vaani knew Megha was pretty simple minded most of the time, always thinking about something not much of a person who interacts or expresses their emotion but deeply cares about those around her but never shows them how much she cares about someone.
It was such a rare occasion how could she not be happy when Megha openly showed her concern for her this made her feel those weird feelings that she has been suppressing or things she didn't want to tell afraid this might scare Megha or estrange Megha from her, she know Megha doesn't has such a special feelings towards her..
"Big Sister, aren't you acting a little hateful to me, hmph! When I have time I'll go look at our treasury or one of those trade fairs for something good....I heard they have some pills with a good effect on this kind of thing...hmm, Maybe some natural treasures to make it full, and attractive just you wait! Megha Indignantly declared as she let go of the other party who distanced herself with a complicated sigh.
But Vaani noticed Megha still looking at her assets with envy and resentment, with a cute charming face too much for Vaani at this time.
Vaani flushed in pleasure and embarrassment at the same time, she tried to sooth Megha's agitation by saying some compliments " Who said I was teasing you? Don't jump for hasty conclusions, I'm merely admiring how nice the dress look on you"
" Really?"
" Why would I lie to you for no reason, this dress clung to you stunningly, with your creamy skin tone and red hair you look like a just step out of some heavenly painting "
Megha looked at her weary and tired body with few dirt marks and calloused palms, and a small wound on her shoulder then looked at Vaani with disdain.
"Did you have to do this? Do you think I'm blind or something? How am I looking that attractive? Do you think I am easy to trick?" Megha scowled at her.
" What do you know? Didn't I just say don't jump to conclusions! Have you ever heard how our sect disciples think about your looks, especially the opposite sex... well I don't know about you paid any attention to this but I at least know little about this things"
Megha's eyes lit up and she hurriedly asked " Oh! Tell me what they think about my looks. Why didn't I hear about this gossip? "There was this slight expectation on her face.
Vaani know where exactly Megha's exception gone with a single look at her face so Vanni decided to tease her back " That you have fiery hair, charming face, lotus buds like firm breasts, very tempting long legs, slender waist, mesmerizing hips and plump and shapely butts " Vaani kind come out of her daydream and shocked when she noticed Megha flushed like ripe tomato and dazed.
Vaani gritted her teeth decided to continue with her teasing " Well I heard this From some junior sisters who heard that from some inner court senior brothers who are besotted with your look "
Vaani almost lost the control over her bubbling mirth when she saw Megha's expression shifted from eagerness to gloominess in Span of these few breaths and calm face morphed into accusatory scowls.
Vanni jokes " What's with your reaction were you expecting something else ? " then she smirked knowingly at Megha " But aren't you planning to keeping me away from your sweetheart and when it's come to his business, you were very secretive with anything and everything else related to him"
" Well I don't mind helping you out for one time?....Should I take your silence as you were okay with me approaching him? " she smiled teasingly but her eyes were too bright to go unnoticed.
Megha leveled a glare at Vaani with her eyes narrowed into slits, Vaani's heart skipped a beat when she noticed a change in Megha, afraid she might pull another move like before she hurriedly changed some random gossip.
" By the way did you hear there were three disciples killed inside the outer court? " Vaani asked abruptly, startling Megha from her evil plans.
" What are you talking about? who killed whom? " Megha asked in a confused voice.
Vaani secretly sighed in relief before casually changing her tone into admonishing " Seriously! Megha, you were sometimes really too carefree and frustrating you know don't let your father find out how casually you pass your days"
" I bet you didn't attend the inner court urgent meeting as well, more like you don't know such a thing happened, at least you should use shadow guards to gather what's going on with our sect, it's not too much right?"
Vaani looked a little confused and guilty from her scolding, so she got up and acted like she was a little dissatisfied with Megha's lack of care towards such matters. She noticed from the corner of her eyes Megha quickly got up to her feet and followed her with a troubled expression.
Vaani is really speechless by how little Megha cares about anything in the sect, as one of the seeded disciples and heiress of the sect, everyone should have expected her to take initiative to conduct an inner court meeting but the irony is Megha doesn't even know what happened.
Vaani secretly doubted that Megha would take initiative to do anything even if she found out about this matter, Vaani knew from her years observation Megha was little indifferent to such things and would think when adults are there to deal with things why should she waste her time worrying about these things.
Even if Vaani doesn't care about this she doesn't want anyone to use this as a chance to talk bad about Megha, as she could perfectly tell the change in Megha's expressions has nothing to do with this rather Megha's guilt for upsetting her father and Vaani.