"You freaked out back there, what was that about Hatsu Yuki? Did you see someone with a puppet or did the arrival of the new guy on the battlefield just shock you that bad?" Seiji asked his half-sister, drawing up a secondary blade for practice and beginning to draw chakra into it as he had his main blade. [ 1/2 ]
As the chakra enveloped the blade and Seiji resumed his normal combat stance he tensed slightly. Wrists and hands clenching he drew the blades to point upwards, his eyes staring forward. A quick slashing movement would follow from both blades and the sand around him would get kicked up as the chakra flicked off of his blades and dug downwards into it. His cold sapphire eyes examined this for a moment, thinking on it. [ 2/2 Santoryu: Samon [ Sand Drawing ] Learned ]
"You're a Kunoichi of Kumogakure now, you can't let your fears or simple shocks to overwhelm you anymore. I can't always be there to save your a**, child." As Seiji spoke he sheathed both of the blades he was wielding and took two steps backwards.
Those sapphire eyes surveyed the targets laid out before him and he took one step forward, twisting his hand onto both hilts and drawing them. As he drew them the sheer force of his strike struck the three targets in front of himself directly, but also split the two beyond them, as well as the three arranged behind them. As he sheathed the blades once more the targets fell apart. [ 1/1 Santoryu: Nitou-Ryuu Iai: Rashoumon [ Two Sword Style Draw and Resheath Technique: Rashou Gate ] Learned ]
"And should you fall prey to your fears when I am not there to protect or awaken you, then you will die. Ours is not a life easily lived any longer, on either the path of the Samurai or the Shinobi. The sooner you learn that, Half-Hattori, the sooner you live a better life." Seiji spoke in a cold and cruel tone as he drew the swords once more, entirely sheathed in chakra. [ 1/2 ]
Thrusting his blades upwards the chakra resonated high, but still looked across the metal as if it were freezing, fractal patterns of blue and white danced along its surface. Taking a breath he looked among the ruined targets to the one which remained and made this his focus. Then striking both blades downwards he released his chakra and a dancing series of spirals forward, instead of flames it looked as if a torrent of frozen winds, and where it struck it coalesced in ice before shattering against the target. [ 2/2 Santoryu: Nana-Juu-Ni Pound Hou [ Dual Sword Soaring Phoenix ] Learned ]
"We are now like this blade. We are weapons, we cut down those who oppose our way of life and the will of our Kage and the Daimyo. We destroy those who besmirch the Hattori honour, and we grind down those upstarts who think themselves above the heavens." Seiji intoned.
As he did so he took a leap, thrusting his blade downward to some imagined opponent.
"We are the executioners now, a simple life will never be ours again." As he spoke this he twisted his blade around him in a middle stance, warding off as if he had dove into a crowd of adversaries to strike at the one.
"We strike for the heart of our foes, then rend them from the inside out. We leave none standing." He told his half-sister. [ 1/1 Basai Bagua: Drilling Wave Learned ]
Continuing with the fluid motions and footwork the elder of the two Hattori made his motions around, striking and dodging. Then twisting his blade upwards in a motion to disarm he would bring the sabre held in his left hand up to 'catch' the imagined sword with it, before using it to redirect and fling it into another of the crowd he envisioned himself within. Then turning on the balls of his feet he would strike back with the pommel of the blade before twisting to face his half-sister once more. [ 1/1 Basai Bagua: Disarming Wave Learned ]
"We must be adaptable, we must be readily able to shift, change, and flow. We cannot let ourselves be weighted down by the means of this world and fears. We must be as the shifting rivers and tides, flow with force one minute, before being able to recede the next." He continued as he stared down the little girl, giving her no chance to speak in return. [ 1/2 ]
Instead as he spoke his body shifted into a mobile stance, sheathing one of his swords, he held the other in one hand, pointed towards Hatsu's chest. He bent slightly at his knees and shifted himself slightly, as if expecting movement or an attack, though keeping a serene and emotionless face. His left hand was left free, and he jutted it out to the side somewhat, making small motions with his hand, as if to attract someone's eyes. [ 2/2 Basai Bagua: Weak Position Stance Learned ]
"Then at the same time we must be able to be firm and rigid, to keep our virtues and allegiances. We are nothing if we betray ourselves, and we are hunted if we betray our own. We must have the ability to strike out and deal damage on a moment's notice. Furthermore we must have the resolve to kill while we do so." The elder brother spoke while he transitioned stances once more. [ 1/2 ]
This time as he shifted his body he took his sword into both hands, gripping it down by his hip. This time he kept his blade slightly off to the side, but now pointed it towards Hatsu's forehead while planting his feet in a wide stance. It was obvious to see how his lower movements would be slowed while in this stance, he would not be able to step and dodge as quickly as normal, but his body was arranged in such a way to compensate with the strength and power derived in his upper striking. [ 2/2 Basai Bagua: Strong Position Stance Learned ]
"The life of a Shinobi, Kunoichi, Samurai, or any warrior to be fair, is one of contradictions. We must be brutal in combat, but refined without. We must value life, but be ready to take it. We will often hate ourselves for taking lives, but also be admired by others for it. We cannot win, but we cannot afford to ever lose." He reflected, looking to her.
"Yet, I have rambled and you have training to do."
[✠]Samuru frowned, sliding his hands into his sleeves as Wanryoku seemed to lose interest in Well that didn't last long. he thought, throwing an arm out as Wan caused the earth to rumble and rise, sending dirt and stone flying. Peilli went flying upward, seeming to go boneless...then suddenly he spun and landed on all fours, grabbing the ground only to fly forward into Wan's attack. It almost seemed like he was putting his face into the fist but then he rolled, his body twisting impossibly to dodge around the fist and the puppet glided past Wan, seeming to just roll off to some other vantage point. Now it was Samuru that Wan was facing and he was armed at this point but it might not seem such a threat to Wan. Samuru held two throwing blades in one hand, the other hand tucked neatly behind his back, appearing to simply be waiting for Wan to get closer. Behind him, the black box had fallen over, revealing itself to be empty "If you break him, I'm going to be upset." Samuru's words were calm and empty, merely a caution to Wan that perhaps attacking the puppet first might not have been the best idea.[✠] OoC: Used:
[An endless circle of fighting, death and living.] [I aim to end this circle, this hellish ouroboros.] [Watch...watch this fiery rebirth of our world.] [✠]
"If you were looking closely enough Seiji-niisan, you would have seen the new man was a puppet, as human as it looked. It came from a small black box and had an odd face." Hatsu looked puzzled as to why her half-brother did not seem to notice this. "As to my episode back there? It never tended to happen while i was focused on something, training for instance. It just startled me a little."
Letting him rant on from there she noticed Seiji take a more hostile stance towards her and so she took out her scrolls, taking a quick glimpse at them. "What say to you and I training together, like you did with the giant lord back there? Might give you a chance let out some of your frustrations too, nii-san." Giving him an obvious push towards a little sparring, she put the scrolls back into her pack and took out two kunai, holding one in each hand. Hatsu Stared at Seiji with cold, piercing eyes and turned her body so her left side was facing Seiji, her right hand next to her chest and her left in front, as if waiting for an answer.
"Very well, Hatsu Yuki. Take guard, as I take the initiative!" He called to his half sister, his stance shifting into the Weak Position Stance of Basai Bagua.
Thrusting forward with one blade he lunged his blade for her open shoulder, making for a snap-cut type of motion as he did so. His intent was clean and pure as the driven snow and ice upon a lake. His expression was serene and empty, and his cold sapphire eyes betrayed nothing of his strike. Instead the eyes stared deep into hers, as if to unnerve her as he made his lunge forward. He wasted no effort or excess of power into this strike, instead simply aiming to test his half-sister's prowess with her training.
[Those I'm Interacting With]
GalagaHero
[Techniques Utilized:] Formless Style: Medium Weapon Katana: Strike C-Rank Basai Bagua Stance: Weak Position Stance - Free
Seeing her brother's response, it seemed his answer was obvious. Concentrating on the blade coming at her, Hatsu channeled her chakra into the essence of the tree, giving her next combo a small boost of speed. Waiting until his blade passed over her left hand, Hatsu would imagine her kunai as hands, and bring her left kunai up to change the course of his first blade.
Hatsu's quick redirect with her weapon would then give way to an attack. Using the speed Seiji was coming at her with and the speed she had gained with her essence of wood, she would duck around his blade, then send him skywards with an uppercut planted right to his chin.
[Those I'm Interacting With]
Wolfe Whitehorn
[Techniques Utilized] Hsing-I Pakua: Wood: Smothering [Mu: Beng] Rank C - Spiritual + Pi Qua Quan: Qua Rank X (C) - Complex + Pi Qua Quan: Teishitsu-Jouhai-Sho Rank X (C) - Complex
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 10:33 pm
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-----α newcomer, a wolf, showed up at the dojo. I caught sight of it out of the corner of my eye. A shinobi's companion? I couldn't recall anyone with a wolf, besides Viktor's, but that was impossible seeing as they had both been killed during the attack. -----I didn't have a chance to think about it because Wan brought his fist down, slamming it into the ground. With it, the earth rippled outward and dirt was sent flying. Quickly drawing my lightning-infused blade again, I slapped a particularly large chunk of debris out of the way, and the thin barrier of chakra surrounding me kept me from being thrown off of my feet, though I was still pushed back. Steadying myself, I watched Samuru's puppet soar through the flying debris, dodging every bit of it. But Wan's attention was on Samuru now thanks to it. [1/2] -----Sure. I was already involved, so I might as well go the whole way. And I was going to use the distraction to my advantage. I shifted my stance to the weak position stance, turning slightly to the side and holding the blade toward Wan. I trusted Wan to be able to withstand an attack from me, but with the particular technique I was learning, I didn't want to cause too much damage by using the strength behind the strong position. Smirking, I shot forward. -----Getting close to the giant, I circled around behind him and, thanks to his massive size, I used his weight to my advantage as well. His back open to me, I pushed off of the ground, and then used him as a wall to jump into the air above him. Blade raised high, I brought it down in a fast and powerful strike. [2/2] [Basai Bagua: Tsunami Crash - S::Simple LEARNED]
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• 30' wire • Small hammer • Breathing mask ┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄ тєcнηιqυєѕ υsє∂ • Tsunami Crash - S::Simple The user deflects an oncoming strike, then presses forward into a fast and effective stab. Using tight circular footwork, the user continues the momentum and circles while jumping in the air, performing a powerful over the head vertical slash. The speed in which the user performs this technique makes it difficult to defend in the weak stance, and in strong stance a defender has a problem not falling or loosing hold on their weapon.
┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄ αcтιvє αвιℓιтιєs • Weak Position Stance The user stands in a front stance, their weapon in one hand by their hip, tip pointing at the center of the enemies chest. The users knees are slightly bent while they stay light on their toes, making movement faster and dodging easier making fighting multiple opponents not as difficult. However their ability to block or deflect “strong” and brute force techniques in this stance is severely diminished. Techniques in this stance are traditionally done with only hand, leaving the other hand free to engage others, or even use it as a distraction. • Zama no Bensho [State of Defense] While in this state, the Hakemoto gives off a thin aura of their corresponding chakra color. This aura is constantly flowing from their body, so long as they are conscious and aware of their surroundings. Although the user is unable to perform techniques above Rank B, any Ninjutsu under Rank B that makes contact with the aura is dispersed. Additionally, any Genjutsu under Rank B is easily seen through, though not broken, so long as the aura is active.
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• Supremely improved reflexes [Stage Five; Kiss of Flesh and Steel Mastery] • Slightly improved reflexes [Stage Three; Tame Za Kyokudo Mastery] • Greatly improved agility [Stage Five; Basai Bagua Mastery] • Improved mobility [Basai Bagua: Move as Water - A Rank] • Mildly improved strength [Stage Two; Tame Za Kyokudo Mastery] • Improved perception [Shunkan no Hagane: Final Words - S Rank]
• +230 Chakra/ +230 Stamina [Training] • 5 chakra or stamina refunded from bloodline techniques, +20 Chakra/ +20 Stamina [Thoroughbred Discipline] • B-rank Ninjutsu require no hand seals [Mystic Hero Discipline]
• 2 post reduction to Bukijutsu [Personal Attribute] • 3 post reduction to Bukijutsu [Class Reduction] • 2 post reduction to Bloodline [Class Reduction] • 1 post reduction to Taijutsu [Santa's Knowledge] • 1 post reduction to Ninjutsu [Santa's Knowledge]
His eyes followed the young girl as she brought her kunai up to deflect his attack. Utilizing blades with a taijutsu fighting style, a very interesting thing indeed. She would no doubt be doing this to counter the bladed advantage he carried in his right hand. Then he felt the upward force against his blade as she tried to manipulate his drawing motion against her shoulder. A twist of his blade and wrist would set his next motion in order.
He focused on the meditation of Earth: Crossing [ B-Rank ], and empowered the technique he brought to bare against Hatsu as she tried to press her blade up against his own. Now instead as he drove his blade into hers he twisted the tip so that it arced elegantly towards her body then downwards, following the path she attempted to move away from him to strike in. His drive in this would be to utterly defeat her block and toss her into the ground with her own force and momentum without allowing her the ability to strike around his guard, all by keeping his blade between the pair of them.
Regardless of whether he took her off of her feet or not when their blades would separate he would take two steps back from her and transition out of the Weak position stance, shifting to something more neutral. His cold eyes following her in her moments of recovery.
Her sudden attempt at a combo was in vain when her half-brother powered his way through her guard and threw her to the side. She rolled once or twice and then flipped herself onto her feet, making hand signs to create a shadow clone next to her, while leaving her kunai dangling from her thumbs.
While the clone proceeded to create a Hatsuyuki cloud, the real Hatsu would point her arms away, and shoot wind from them propelling her towards Seiji.
Along the way to her half-brother, Hatsu created more handsigns, then would proceed to let out a large shockwave forwards right as she reached Seiji, attempting to knock him back with a force that could topple a building.
[Those I'm Interacting With]
Wolfe Whitehorn
[Techniques Utilized] Real Hatsu: Maruton: Kage Bunshin no Jutsu [ Shadow Clone Technique ] - B Rank Fuuton: Suiyaku Kaze [ Propelling Winds ] - D Rank Fuuton: Zankyokukuuha [ Extreme Decapitating Air Waves ] - C Rank
Clone Hatsu: Bloodline: Hatsuyuki [ First Snow ] (Chakra) - D Rank
Making a single handsign the elder Hattori grew a smile on his face as a sheet of thin, transparent ice grew from the moisture in the air between himself and his half-sister. The sunlight catching it and making it reflect the same colour she had so often seen within his eyes whenever he had looked at her and her twin brother. This sheet of ice would quite easily withstand the blast of wind, separating it and creating a stable eye to the tumult it became as it burst around the shield he had prepared.
His smile didn't fade as he realized that if she did not change her course she too would smash directly into the sheet of the ice. A chuckle escaped his lips as his eyes looked beyond her to the clone, he laughed a little louder now as he looked at the cloud of snow she had spawned in the air above the cloned self.
"No use." He told her as he made the seal once more and suddenly the frigid form of ice would begin to creep in the area around the hatsuyuki cloud, enveloping it and all the pellets of snow contained until it became a solid mass.
The mass, with nothing to hold it up and now bearing solid weight would plummet towards the ground, aimed to land upon the clone beneath it. With any luck it would crush the thing and dispel it. Preparing his sword Seiji just continued to chuckle as he spoke.
"You're thinking outside of your own physical body and making more of yourself to fight me. That's good, but snow has now weight compared to the ice. Now then, I thought this was going to be a purely physical fight, but if you want to put me at a disadvantage, I'll fight that handicap. I'd expect no less of you or Samui." He intoned, turning to face her instead of her clone once more, hoping she was moving too fast to abandon her course, so that she would smack direct into his ice shield.
[Those I'm Interacting With]
GalagaHero
[Techniques Utilized:] Hyouton: Hyouton [ Ice Creation ] [ C-Rank ] Protecting Seiji from Air Waves Hyouton: Hyouton [ Ice Creation ] [ C-Rank ] Attempting to Crush Clone with former Hatsuyuki Cloud
Hatsu's attack blasted into the unbreaking ice shieldseemed to slowed her down enough to give her good footing in front of Seiji and his ice. Her winds being blocked with ease and her Hatsuyuki being turned to solid ice, Hatsu needed a different strategy. Her clone took a hop backwards as to avoid the now falling frozen Hatsuyuki. It was now apparent that Seiji could freeze her own techniques and that only her wind-based jutsu would have any effect, outside of taijutsu. Taking a few leaps backwards herself Hatsu regrouped away from her clone. "I had no idea you were going to only use physical techniques. If you would prefer, I could send my clone away and we could do just that?" Hatsu's shadow clone then proceeded to take a few steps back, as if it was excusing itself from the battle. Hatsu's real body would then go back into the stance she had started off in, offering a chance to start over.
"Unlike you and the others, I have had no time to train myself in the arts of ninjutsu. I have only the true Hattori Art trained, beyond that I am reliant on my prowess in my sword and my own physical form. As I have always been and most certainly will always be, Hatsu. If you wish to continue coming at me with your techniques, then feel free to do so, but be warned that I will live up to the name father gave me. I will strike you down as the Frozen Sabre and rain upon you a thousand blows." Seiji threatened as he took stance once more, the deep, serene, sapphire tinted eyes staring down into her own ruby coloured eyes.
"Now advance, one or both of you, and I will tear you to pieces, or falter and I will swallow you as the rising tide." He continued.
His stance slowly shifted and he raised his blade so that it was shoulder height, angled slightly down so that it pointed towards Hatsu's forehead. His left arm stood crossed across his chest, its hand lightly gripping the rear of the hilt of his katana. His right hand pressed near his face, the elbow behind his shoulder and level with it. His eyes danced for the briefest of moments along his katana, then down to his sister, making sure that the line the blade pressed did not touch against his left elbow or arm at any point.
Relaxing his legs somewhat he shrank down in his stance, but kept the focal point of the blade the same. He seemed to visibly let go of all tension in his body and the point of anger in his tone was suddenly gone at the last of his words. The kind gleam in Seiji's eyes faded and was replaced with ice, he had reached his point of battle zen.
Gripping her kunai tighter, Hatsu's clone poofed into thin air. "I suppose we'll fight as you intended." Hatsu was not much for words during battle, and with that she ran straight towards Seiji, throwing a simple right jab at his chest if he did not act before she reached him. A rather rash move, but her strengths laid in reacting to her opponent rather than attacking first, and she needed to keep pressure on him anyways.
[Those I'm Interacting With]
Wolfe Whitehorn
[Techniques Utilized] Formless Style Hard Physical E-Rank
The Sapphire eyes of the Frozen Sabre watched the young girl come darting into his direction and he dissolved the ice shield from in front of himself without a conscious thought. He waited a few moments, eyeing her to see if she would continue straightforward with this plan of attack and when she did he merely met her blow with a pinpoint defense. Shifting his right wrist and left hand upwards he met her blade with the centre of his own, binding them together unless she risked his blade sliding into her hands. Utilizing the quickly set guard of his blade against the blade of her kunai he would aim to hold the girl at bay, keeping her directly in his face with little room between them.
"Too open." He told his younger sibling as he began to step forward, using his superior body size to power through into her stance, keeping the blade perfectly centered down between them.
Then leaning into his blade as if he was beginning to push further strength into it, aiming to push through the guard on her right side he let his body move forward. Ultimately though as he made the show of force to ready his weapon for such an attack his left hand came free of the hilt of the katana and flew free towards her face in a wide-knuckled punch, using his upper arm as a fulcrum against the steel as he delivered the blow.
[Those I'm Interacting With]
GalagaHero
[Techniques Utilized:] Formless: Medium Weapon Katana: Defense - E-Rank Kiss of Flesh and Steel: Seppun no Hoppeta [ Kiss on the Cheek ] E-Rank
Seeing the sword lowered to block her attack Hatsu pulled back her punch waiting for what Seiji would do next. Sure enough, Seiji's left hand came off of his hilt and formed a fist. Dropping both kunai around her thumbs, the Hattori child would catch his hand with both of her own, pull him forwards and turn so she was facing his backside, and lean into him trying to put him to the ground with the force of both his and her own attacks, letting go of his arm before he hits the ground to prevent his arm from breaking.
[Those I'm Interacting With]
Wolfe Whitehorn
[Techniques Utilized] Pi Qua Quan: Tenshin-Bansa Rank X (B) - Simple
Description: A deceptively simple counter, in which the user catches the opponent’s punch with both hands, then pulls the opponent forward and turns such that they are behind the opponent. The user then leans forward, forcing the opponent to the ground while still holding onto their arm, typically resulting in the arm breaking, or being dislocated at least. Is treated as a rank higher when interacting with Taijutsu and Bukijutsu reliant on the Hard Physical Formless Style.
Realizing his sister grabbed his arm and began to pull him towards herself with a twisting motion on his left arm, Seiji took advantage of her force and the bracing of his upper left arm on the back of his sword. Using her own force, as well as the meditative thoughts on Metal: Splitting, the elder Hattori drove his blade upwards into the chest and arms of the girl who had attempted to throw him down. Pushing his body forward with her motions he would roll forward to regain his footing and escape her range, as if the threat and very real possibility of his blade striking across her chest and inner arms wasn't enough to force her to let go. She was quick, nimble, and had managed to defeat his impromptu personal range attack, but she left too many openings up in her defenses.
Sliding up to one foot and knee he took a high stance again, much as the one he had taken that originally brought them to this point. His arms tucked high near his neck and face, the blade parallel to the ground, but this time the blade was upwards instead of initially diagonal facing. Cold sapphire hues turning to his sister he stared.
"You're getting closer and closer, but you keep leaving yourself too many openings. Your risks have high reward, but too great of a cost." He scolded as he continued to kneel, resolve steady.
[Those I'm Interacting With]
GalagaHero
[Techniques Utilized:] Hsing-I Pakua: Metal: Splitting [Jin: Pi] B-Rank to Formless Strike Formless: Medium Weapon Katana: [ B-Rank + Metal Splitting Augment ] A-Rank
