Aria nodded. She pursed her lips. "So... What are we going to work on?" The girl asked. She was really excited about learning defense skills. Aria smiled over at the boy and walked to him. "I haven't really done this before, so take it easy on me." She snorted with a smirk.

Sage grinned. "I want you to punch me. Hard. As hard as you can," he told her. "In the chest," he clarified. "I need to know how you move and how strong you are before we move on." He shrugged slightly and chuckled. "Then we can work on punches and blocks.

Aria laughed. "You're joking." She said before looking at him. "Wait. You're serious? Okay then..." The girl said. She didn't want to hurt him, but then... she punched him. She punched him hard. Aria didn't expect it to be that hard, but she apologized over and over.

Sage nodded when the girl protested but prepared himself for a punch. Sage fell back a step, not expecting the girl to be that strong, but then he grunted and waved her apologies away with his hand. "No, no that was good. Now I know you can hurt someone if you really wanted to," he chirped.

Aria covered her mouth with her hands. "Did I hurt you?" She said in a muffled voice. "Sorry." She peeped out one more apology. The girl walked over to him to check on him. "I mean... you'll probably have a decent bruise there." Aria said. She chuckled softly. "Yeah. I would fight if I had to." She said.

Sage chuckled and shrugged. "it's not the only bruise I've gotten. I'll be fine," he hummed. Though, he realized he still didn't have his shirt on, but at least the girl seemed fine with it. Whatever. He supposed he'd keep it from getting dirty then.

Aria laughed. She forgot he still had his shirt off. The girl just shook her head and blushed. "Well. At least you're sort of used to it then. I just didn't want to hurt you. Even on accident." Aria said smiling at Sage. The girl was starting to like him. She just didn't know how she was suppose to tell him.

Sage grinned and shrugged. "Don't worry too much about it. I get hit a lot." Then he wrinkled his nose. "Do you want to learn to block or to punch harder first then?" He didn't particularly care, and he had nothing better to ask her about he supposed.

"I don't really care as long as i'm with y- I mean, as long as i'm learning." Aria said embarrassed. She looked down and sighed. The girl sat down against a tree and caught her breath for a second, before looking back at Sage, her cheeks still red.

Sage felt his face flush when he picked up on the girls stopped comment and sort of just stood there for a moment, staring at the girl. "Er ....we can keep punching then," he said after a moment, facing the girl and sort of instructing her on how to throw a good punch.