That old

The next Morning.

Natasha walked to the training grounds as she opened the gate and she walked into the gym as she saw Kira standing there training with a punching bag as she stopped when she heard someone walk in.

"Good Morning" said Natasha as she smiled.

"Good Morning Natasha" said Kira as she turned to look at Natasha and she smiled.

"Where is everyone else?" asked Natasha as she looked around and she could only see Kira here.

"They must be in upstairs gym, since the commander is not coming early today" said Kira.

"He said that he will come at 7am, and that we should all be ready" said Kira.

"Ahh I see" said Natasha.

"Yes, so anyway, we should practice our sparring match" said Kira.

"Yes, alright" said Natasha as she nodded her head, she knew she had to be serious here, from what she had seen Romanoff meant business whenever he was dealing with the trainees, he was far, far different from when he was with her.

"Alright but first, go and change to your uniform so we can start" said Kira as she looked at Natasha who was still in her normal clothes.

"Ahh yes, I will be right back" said Natasha as she smiled and she walked to the locker rooms as Kira went back to training with the punching bag as she was wearing black boxing wraps.

After a few minutes, Natasha walked out of the locker room in her uniform as she walked back to the gym as she heard the sound of the leather punching bag being hit was great force as Kira just stood there as she kept on punching, but she stopped and she held the punching bag when she saw Natasha.

"First before we begin, I need to test your skill, where you are currently" said Kira as she looked at Natasha.

"Alright" said Natasha as Kira threw her some boxing wraps as Natasha caught them and she looked at them.

"You scared?" asked Kira.

"No, I am only wondering why you are using wraps, and not boxing gloves" said Natasha as she noticed that Kira was only wearing wraps as well.

"We don't fight with boxing gloves in real world, we fight with our fists, and so if we start training with nothing but boxing wraps, your hands get used to the impact little by little" said Kira as Natasha understood what she was trying to say.

"Although punching bag does not compare to human face, it is softer" said Kira as Natasha did not know if that was a joke or not, but when Kira started laughing, Natasha laughed a bit as well.

"Your face… you looked confused" said Kira as she laughed.

"Well I was, you say it as if you have punched many human faces before" said Natasha as she laughed.

"Well only the one, the face of my ex-husband, and what about you?" asked Kira as she laughed.

"I have punched someone as well" said Natasha as she laughed.

"You punched your ex-husband?" asked Natasha out of curiosity.

"I would have done more than that but he called the Police on me" said Kira as she scoffed.

"You were married?" asked Natasha.

"Yes I was for ten years" said Kira as she removed the wraps from her hands.

Natasha did not want to sound like she was prying, but Kira did not seem to want her not to ask her personal questions.

"But you don't look that old" said Natasha.

"I'm 34, and yes, I get that a lot, courtesy of my Father, he too had a baby face" said Kira as she smiled and she looked at Natasha.

"34??" asked Natasha in surprise, Kira did not even look like she was more than twenty years old.

"And that is the reaction I get, I know, I have small stature" said Kira as she laughed.

"But 34??" asked Natasha in surprise, Kira was literally nine years older than her, and yet if you were to put them side by side with each other, you would not be able to tell who was older.

"How old are you then?" asked Kira.

"I'm 26" said Natasha as she was going to turn twenty six this month, in a few days' time.

"Ahh you are young, very young," said Kira.

"You should call me sestra (sister) Kira then" said Kira as she laughed.

"I'm just joking" said Kira.

"Sorry if this is too personal, but why did you punch your husband?" asked Natasha.

"Ex-husband" said Kira as she corrected her.

"Sorry ex" said Natasha.

"And no it is not too personal, besides, I like you" said Kira as she smiled.

"Well my ex was a very abusive person, not physically, but he had such a temper, once he got angry that was it, it would be hell" said Kira as Natasha listened to her.

"It would get so bad, he would destroy anything in his way, just because of something little" said Kira.

"I endured for ten horrible years, but then one day I just snapped" said Kira.

"I realized that he was treating me horribly, I was not the cause of all his life problems, I did not deserve what he gave to me, I was done getting treated like rubbish, and to top it off that stupid man was impotent" said Kira.

"I am sure that his anger caused him to be horrible in bed" said Kira as she laughed and Natasha did not know whether she should laugh as well, the way Kira said it with such a joke.

"So before I punched him in his face, I gave him a nice kick in his crotch and then I proceeded to his face" said Kira as she smiled.

"Oh, wait, I digress, we are here to train and not speak of ex-husbands" said Kira as she laughed.

"Right…" said Natasha as she nodded her head, Kira had just told her something very personal.

"But I agree with you, it's not worth being treated horribly by just one man who is not worthy of your love and affection" said Natasha.

"You speak truth, I think that's why I like you" said Kira as she smiled.

"But regardless, let's get back to training" said Kira.

"Do you need help wearing your wraps?" asked Kira.

"No, I'm good" said Natasha as she replied and she wrapped her hands herself, the way Benjamin taught her, only now she was very fast in doing so.

"Ahh, you wrap them fast" said Kira as she smiled.

"Thank you" said Natasha as she smiled.

"All yours, show me what you got" said Kira as she moved away from the punching bag and Natasha stood where Kira was standing before as she started to hit the punching bag with great force.

"Hm impressive" said Kira as she smiled, on a honest note, judging from how Natasha looked, she doubted her skill, but she seemed to know what she was doing, which took the load of her going easy on Natasha off.

"Thank you" said Natasha as she touched her hands, that punching bag was hard though, very hard, harder than the ones that she was used to training on.

"Alright, I see no use of this, let us spar" said Kira as she smiled and Natasha took off her wraps as they moved to the padded surface.

"You have heard of choreography before right?" asked Kira as Natasha nodded her head.

"Well sparring is just like that, because remember, we are not actually supposed to be fighting each other, we don't need to get hurt unnecessarily, so we will practice first" said Kira as Natasha nodded her head.

"I go left, you go right, I go up, you go down, I push forward, you push back, like that, like that" said Kira as after all, she doubted If Romanoff actually cared if they practiced this or not, he only wanted to see a sparing match with no errors at all, and Kira was going to give that to him.

"You get it?" asked Kira.

"I get it" said Natasha as she nodded her head.

"Good, but remember that we still need to actually land blows on each other, but don't worry, I won't hit you hard, and well, we have rules, no hitting the face, no hitting my chest area, and no hitting my hands" said Kira.

"So where exactly can I hit then?" asked Natasha.

"Good question, you can hit my upper arm, my abdomen, my legs, but not my upper body from here to here" said Kira as she pointed to her chest and then her head.

"Okay I got it" said Natasha.

"Alright good, so show me what you got" said Kira as she smiled and Natasha smiled, it had been a while since she has sparred with anyone, so she was sure that she would be a bit rusty, but on the other hand, she was used to sparring with only one person that it was kind of nice to think that she would be sparring with someone different, sparring with someone whose moves she did not know.

"I'm waiting" said Kira as she smiled and Natasha braced herself as she went straight for Kira and Kira moved away as she could tell where Natasha was going, her feet pointed in the direction she was aiming for, which was a big giveaway.

Natasha tried to punch Kira in her abdomen, but Kira was just too fast, and then Kira stopped defending as she started to punch Natasha and out of reflex, Natasha blocked Kira's punches, she was having a hard time keeping up, Kira's punches were just all so strong.

Kira smiled as she tripped Natasha with her leg and Natasha fell on her back on the ground, sure the area was padded, but that still did not stop Natasha from feeling pain.

"Are you alright?" asked Kira as Natasha hissed, she had never been hit down like that.

"Yes I am" replied Natasha as Kira helped her up.

"Your feet point in the direction you want to move in, and when you dodge my punches, it takes you too long to get offensive again" said Kira as she smiled.

"You observed all that from a less than 2 minute spar?" asked Natasha.

"What can I say, I have a nick for these things" said Kira as she smiled.

"But above all, you have good reflexes, and you seem fine, we just have to do the exact same thing when Commander comes, although I do warn you, I will not go easy on you again, so add more force" said Kira as Natasha nodded, she was trying to take in all her words.

"That was a good spar" said Kira as she smiled.

"Hmm, easy for you to say, you weren't touched at all" said Natasha.

"I agree" said Kira as she laughed and in that same moment Vicki walked into the gym as Natasha and Kira turned to look at her and Vicki scoffed once she saw Natasha.

"You won't greet?" asked Kira.

"Good Morning Kira" said Vicki as she ignored Natasha and she walked past them to the locker room.

"This is past being in a bad mood, since yesterday" said Kira as Natasha looked at her.

"Well I don't mind at all" said Natasha as she really did not have time to figure out why Vicki did not like her, she had better things to do.

"She is being childish, anyway, just do some more training" said Kira as Natasha nodded her head as Kira scoffed at Vicki's behaviour, she did not know that she could be this immature as to decide to pick on someone new, who she had never even met before.