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    "I actually...I know you don't want to use your powers, but we have the
same Element, and I was hoping you could help me figure out how to use it
better, as no one here studies the naginata.  I mean, Akira-sensei sort of
knows, and Akane-san is doing her best, but..."  I stared at the ground.
"But I guess that would only make you feel bad."

    "I have not touched even a normal naginata in a long time," Fujino-san
said softly.  "Though my family trained me with it as a child.  But I will
talk to your senseis and help them help you some.  As for your Element..."
She seemed lost in thought.  "Call your Element," she said firmly.

    I summoned it.

    She stared at it, and Kuga-san said, "It looks just like yours."

    Fujino-san shivered, then held her hands out gingerly.

    I heard Akane-san swallow and Fujino-san took it gingerly and suddenly
flowed into a complex kata with it, then looked surprised.

    I noticed a fair number of family members looking at us.  Tate-san
looked stunned, and I could see Suzushiro-san and Kikukawa-san looked rather
nervous.

    "Take it," Fujino-san said urgently and I did.

    "I guess it's like riding a bicycle," I said a little nervously.

    Kuga-san whispered something to Fujino-san, who didn't seem pleased.

    "I will see about helping them to design a program for you," Fujino-san
said.  "You may be able to do what I did, to separate the blade into
chain-linked segments. I suspect what you need to do, though, is just to
experiment somewhere you can afford to break things, and it will come to you
as it did to me."

    "Thank you, Fujino-san," I said and bowed, then banished my Element.  "I
am very grateful."

    "Now, let's find someone we can use as a guinea pig for my OTHER
secrets," Fujino-san said, smiling.

    "You're coming diving, now," Kuga-san said, taking her by the arm and
dragging.

    "Why, Natsuki, you're so bold!"

    "Can it.  It's time for you to fall in water, a lot."
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