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 Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 11:52 pm
Ugu Zenmaru
Vs.
Bukotsu Kusanagi
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:44 am
Bukotsu had appeared with a rather comforting smile on his face. His ideals and skills would be tested at this point. But he knew Ugu was a very skilled melee fighter, and on top of that he hadn't known what his shikai abilities were.
As he stood there and waited, he took off the scarf that had jammed his reiatsu flow. Folding it and setting it down outside the ring, he walked back to the center of the grounds.
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:37 pm
Ugu, from outside the raised battleground, stepped forward. He moved through the ticket holders, gamblers, and other spectators, to go toward the small arena. After several seconds the man was at the raised floor. His eyes went to the empty space below the wood ground, noting the fact.
The man then jumped up the sparse few feet to the wooden platform, making his appearance to the many gamblers that watched the scene. He stood tall with his giant 7'1 frame that blocked out the sun which shimmered in the east. It was still morning. There was no wind. It was dead silent. It was the perfect atmosphere for a one on one fight with an old peer.
The shinigami's fresh black clothing shifted. He was wearing Death God attire, with all its normalcy and intricacy. However, he wore a black shirt beneath his thick black shinigami clothing, making his whole outfit turn into a pure bred of darkness, without a speck of white. "Bukotsu, do you remember that Kidou class that we both attended? Do you remember the time at the library, when you put that medicine on my bleeding hands...?" His heavily scarred right hand went to his belt. Ugu's large fingers wrapped around his Soul Slayer, gripping its green woven grip with a relaxed hold.
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:16 pm
"Of course, good fellow like me never forgets," Bukotsu smirked, "I'm glad to meet a worthy opponent, so let's make it good alright? You make it to Eleventh, and I'll make it to Sixth..." Bukotsu said as he raised his right hand over his shoulder to reach at his sword on his back. Gripping his zanpaktou with a firm hold and fair balance, he focused and began pressuring his body with reiatsu, which was probably never seen as much considering Bukotsu had never bothered to unjam the flow of his reiatsu.
At this point no words would need to be spoken, their words would be described in the match. He slid it out gently and assumed his style of Tachi Seiho holding the massive warsword over his body parallel with his shoulders facing Ugu with his left hand supporting the blunt end.
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:51 pm
Ugu let out a small breath. He then closed his eyes, focusing on the nearby spirit energy. The shinigami brought out his sword from his sheath and gripped its handle with both of his hands. His hold on his soul slayer remained lax, ready to move at any call to defend.
His mind shifted past the spectators, and the normal spirit-particle filled atmosphere of soul society, speeding to only him and his opponent. He remained focused holding his blade in front of himself. He remained focused, completely balanced in mind and body.
Another breath came from his mouth. It flowed out freely, not hampered by being tense or by fear. His shoulders relaxed, and his sword bobbed down an inch.
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Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:47 am
Bukotsu had taken a small breath before he disappeared using a normal flashstep. Appearing to Ugu's left front, he was only five yards away from his opponent, he would swing his sword intending to knock him back a bit before making the heavier and the more severe attacks. As he pulled the sword back up, it began swirling reiatsu as it geared up for an attack, he was firing his signature attack of rushing hot air and cutting winds from his sword.
"Tempest Splitter!" He shouted as swung his sworld vertically and the blast of heated air and cutting winds shot forward towards Ugu.
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Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:50 pm
The man's clothing ruffled as he stood stationary, unmoving from his square and relaxed stance. His right hand twitched, then, catching the initial attack from his left with the very tip of his soul slayer. The following attacks that Bukotsu then attempted to land were aptly blocked with Ugu's blade. Ugu Zenmaru continued to stay put, just blocking the attacks of his opponent without any attempt at striking back. His blade simply followed the attacks of Bukotsu, blocking the flurry of sword strikes.
His eyes then noted the small 'haze' that was always on the horizon in the desert. However, the haze of rising heat was along Bukotsu's soul slayer, not on the horizon. It seemed to be building up with the help of the fighter's spirit energy, too.
A heat attack, the shinigami summerized. Obviously his opponent was heating up the air around his sword in preparation for some soul slayer oriented assault. The heat was building up along Bokutsu's sword, so it definitely was a Zanjutsu. It was either wind based or fire based. Probably. Taking from experience from the academy, Ugu noted that most fire and wind based attacks were always forward attacks that never had any area of effect damage.
So the attack that was building up probably was going to be aimed at him, and not at the area around Bukotsu. That would most probably leave his opponent open for a side attack since the attacker's focus would be on the narrow forward attack. With that in mind Ugu then began to plan his counter-offensive.
When Bukotsu was cutting downward to release the 'Tempest Splitter', Ugu flashed stepped behind his cloaked opponent's back. His tall frame flickered, disappearing from the vision of his opponent, moving out of the way of the small tempest.
A thunderclap, or something along the lines of a large bang, echoed from the left of Bukotsu. "Thunderclap Earthquake Elbow [Erubo-Jishinkaminarikajioyaji]!" the giant yelled as his raised right arm crashed down toward Bukotsu's exposed side. His right elbow, if unblocked, would come into contact with his opponent's freshly revealed neck.
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Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 5:19 pm
Of course by letting himself open, Bukotsu had not expected Ugu to flashstep before.
As he still had his sword on the ground after the attack of Juzumaru. He had to leave his sword for the moment. Letting go of the sword he took the initial blow from Ugu at his side as though a bomb went off, Bukotsu had skidded slightly back away from his zanpaktou. Wincing off the pain slightly, he almost seemed to react at the very last moment, he knew right away Ugu would use a very powerful blow to take him down.
This 'Thunderclap elbow' might just do him in if he had not pressured reiatsu entirely on his body. Bukotsu raised both his arms as in guard to absorb the blow above him. But thanks to physics, Bukotsu had also used much force to meet head on with Ugu's technique applying an almost equal and opposite reaction and cushioning the blow and then headed off with the added effect of a spinning spring like parry movement upwards after being pushed downwards that would send Ugu's elbowed arm up exposing him.
Bukotsu himself had also prepared a heavy hitting move himself as he slowly spoke, "Secrets of the Ankokumatou-Jutsu....Majjinn Rekkou Satsu!" Bukotsu said as he delivered a blow that would surge energy of white hot visible burning reiatsu after delivering a simple and yet powerful contact palm strike to Ugu's exposed right side as the energy would travel through the other side if it was connected just the right way.
If not, it would feel like a very powerful concentrated strike to Ugu's side. Bukotsu had used a palm strike instead of originally a projected stab that able to singe cloth and flesh, to restrain the killing touch. He took extra care in preparing this counter-offensive so that he wouldn't injure Ugu to the point where it would cause continuous internal bleeding.
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:37 pm
With his arm pushed up, the shinigami brought out his shikai,"... Red Ocher Renewal- Egeus." Ugu's blade shined with his spirit energy and changed into its shikai form. Its length went from five feet to six, and flattened its furthest edge into a more 'European' style of long sword. Along with that transformation, two thick pauldrons formed on the shinigami's shoulders. Each shell of metal spanned three feet from his neck, giving more definition to the man's large physique.
Bukotsu's punch had landed, and so did his kidou technique. It had burned a fist sized hole into the shinigami's clothing, and had left a round-ish burn mark on the shinigami's right lower ribs. A small growth of flame licked around the top edges of the hole.
Ugu looked down at his opponent with a cocked eyebrow. "Right. A tree falling on me would hurt more." His left foot lifted an inch then quickly slammed down, causing the wooden platform to shake uncontrollably. Ugu's blade then followed in suit, slashing downward against his unarmed shinigami opponent. The soul slayer whisked down upon his opponent's head, aiming to cut down upon Bukotsu's right shoulder.
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:12 pm
"That wasn't meant to singe your body though, it was aiming inside," Bukotsu smiled lightly regaining his posture and pulling back to avoid the slash towards his shoulder with the sword skimming his mantle. The technique was used in a palm strike therefore, for sure, the technique should've felt like several sonic fists hitting the insides of Ugu rather than hurting his exterior, the hot chi energy was just a decisive distraction.
Bukotsu had managed to step by his zanpaktou, he only pulled it in turn to meet with Ugu's. Bukotsu had taken this time to utilize some reiatsu to pressure his body with. Seeing that Ugu had opened his shikai, Bukotsu couldn't risk using his shikai so early in the fight. He had heard rumors of how Ugu's shikai power formulated wounds that would not heal. Therefore, Bukotsu only assumed that Ugu's shikai power was that the wounds it had caused would not heal.
Removing his mantle now, he tossed it aside as it hit the ground outside the ring as it landed with a rather heavy thud. His reiatsu was now formulating around his body now as it added 10 times as pressure reiatsu began stacking on him making his body in to a total weapon now. Taking the warsword with both hands, Bukotsu had them out front to meet on Ugu's level. With the mantle off of his body, and lifting his extra mass off, his flash step and demonspeed would move twice as fast.
Taking the demonspeed this way of flashstep should surprise Ugu since it was not a regular flash step, but something the eyes or instinct could catch, making Ugu think he was to attack from behind or form the sides. Bukotsu had instead just taken a step forward about 4 feet closer to him using the demonspeed. Executing a rising slash at Ugu at the same time shooting and cutting Ugu with the Tempest Splitter, Juzumaru's edge would meet completely with Egeus, while therefore shooting the rush of hot air and cutting winds right at him as well.
"Tempest splitter!" Buktosu called out as he executed his manuever.
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 3:37 pm
Ugu completely ignored what Bukotsu was saying. Being hit by a tree did hurt more, obviously. The scratch remained a scratch compared to his training. It was just a burn, with all the chi/energy of the attack remaining at the surface of his skin. His insides were protected by his well controlled amount of spirit energy. Training beneath a tree to gain control over his growing spirit energy had been fruitful for his control.
Normally, when someone wanted to 'release the power inside themselves' or 'reveal the power inside themselves', they would send out a massive aura of shoulder crushing reiatsu. Ugu was the opposite. He kept his spirit power inside him, unspent, and focused inwardly to be ready to be used at any moment.
The small licking flame on his clothing grew from the minor hole, expanding to meet his arm pit. He wasn't burned by the flame growing on his clothing. His sword's tip remained pointed at the wooden flooring, unheeding his opponent's spurt of words. The man closed his eyes, focusing on his spirit energy to a higher extent so that his upcoming move would be the pinacle of destruction.
Beneath his breath the shinigami began to mutter an incantation. "... lording evils, unholy retribution for famed deeds, evaporating shallows," he finished saying, a moment after his opponent had removed his armor from his shoulders.
Bukotsu liked to be flashy, Ugu thought as he let out a peaceful and steady breath. The throwing off of his armor, the multitude of techniques that usually did the same things with, giving up on his weapon to attack with his fists... Ugu Zenmaru sighed. It was just a show where he could impress the Commander. Again Ugu was the opposite.
Ugu assumed his regular stance. Steady, shoulders fixed, and back straight. He moved his sword up, loosely pointing upwards and toward his opponent. It didn't matter where his opponent was coming from. From his coming technique every corner of the 12 yard by 12 yard battleground would be thrashed.
A burst of spirit energy fused flame would ripped from Ugu and his soul slayer. A flaming ripple exploded from the shinigami for 10.94 yards in all directions. Up, backwards, left, right.. Nothing on the field of battle was safe from the raw explosion of fire. The massive force of flame ripped at the wooden ground that the two shinigami stood on. It blasted back several chips of wood and splinters, all laced with the same fire that blew them off their foothold.
Along with the fiery explosion, a massive wind ripped from the apex of the kidou. For 21.88 yards a body smashing gale flew outwards at every angel, ripping out more splinters and damaging refuse from the ground beneath Ugu.
He remained standing, focused on his spirit energy. His mentality was just like being under that tree for so many hours. Peaceful, steady, but most of all: focused. His mind remained on the battle, and just the battle, as he remained in his perfectly square stance.
Flame covered the ground of the 12by12 arena. The flames lightly burned at Ugu's clothing, and had melted the base of his sandals. However, even though he was at the center of his kidou technique, the man remained unmarked. His back remained straight, his shoulders fixed, and he continued to hold his sword loosely infront of him.
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 5:07 pm
As Bukotsu had seen that Ugu ingored his pain and began forming a spell. He had no other choice but to go into shikai. Taking his sword to his side, he quietly uttered the words, "Help me Protect, Juzumaru!" Bukotsu said as his sword exploded into several white shards and gathered about his shins and forearms to his fingertips.
Taking his shikai, he immediately began s a spell as Ugu was finishing his spell, WAVE MOTION...CRASHING SHORE!" Bukotsu shouted as a strange barrier and energy emitted from the white runic markings of the being his reiatsu. As the flames flew out upon the shield it had well protected the area of a 3x3 dome around Bukotsu shielding form the flames. Any second wasted and Bukotsu would've been smashed the flames and then finished bye the smashing gale.
Obviously, Ugu had superior focus and a very tough exterior, very much like a tree. But his attitude in a fight was so...uptight, it was if it were the only thing to matter to him to win this. Bukotsu had different perspective, Bukotsu had been using his abilities to think it was some kind of competition with Ugu for strength, but now his moves would go to an extent to where he would formulate the smallest of things into something more. Bukotsu would have to calculate a different approach, he had only been trying to meet with Ugu's strengths, in turn not turn any focus towards his own strengths. This bit of insight had opened up his mind, and now he was ready to start a real fight and not a squabble.
Bukotsu had now entered a state of intense focus as he had adopted a stance to fit his liking now instead of a purely focused style. As the reiatsu along the sking of his body diminished, it was pressuring itself inside his body as the area. The pressured reiatsu had found itself intune with him now. He relaxed his muscles and lowered his own frustrated fury, Bukotsu had finally realized his error in his approach to Ugu.
Taking his approach once more, he had already smiled as he approached Ugu with blinding speed, but this time he had formed a plan. Taking his idea and warping it into reality. As he did he stopped and slammed the left armored hand into the ground as it sent out a massive moving pillar of blue reiatsu as it followed and moved to slam into Ugu.
"Wave motion....Shark!!" He shouted as he unleased the technique.
As it forced him back, Bukotsu had taken one more flashstep behind Ugu.
Bukotsu had began forming his technique of energy. As he cupped his hands together and began focusing a dense energy force in between his hands, it wasn't meant to be destructive to the body, but as it did, it began circulating into a ball of energy. This technique however was unaffected by reiatsu in any way. As if the power of the thunder god formed within it's recesses. More electrical energy began being drawn from the gauntlets as well, making this technique more pulsing than being struck by lightning.
As he formed enough energy within his hands, he realsed it as it shot out with Bukotsu's hands pressuring into the back of Ugu. Bukotsu could only come up with one of these every fight, so this mattered if not, he would have to come up with new strategy.
The surging power of thunder would breach into Ugu's body and surge about his muscles and body at blinding speed. Using the neurtransmitters in his nerves to make his muscles overwork in a matter of seconds completely numbing and stunning his body withing the second the electricity began to shock in his muscles at several thousand volts growing each second.
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 5:34 pm
Okuni had just recently entered the arena through the way the spectators came from. She hadn't missed much, but seen that Bukotsu was struggling, to a massive opponent. She herself, had personally dealt with the kind that are very large with power and strength, but with Ugu's knowledge, he might just make up for any weaknesses to a large person.
But for Bukotsu on the other hand, he wasn't gifted with fighting prowess like herself or herculan strength and stamina like Ugu, most likely in her perspective Bukotsu would lose. But something was a miss, Bukotsu was unable to read Ugu's emotions to define his style to approaches, Bukotsu was very analytical, but with the way Ugu was portraying himself as a the calm, cool person. Bukotsu would have a hard time determining his actions. But Bukotsu did have a knack for showing off sometimes, so it would most likely sometimes corrupt his focus.
Okuni's prediction would come true, Bukotsu would lose. But she was more worried about Bukotu removing the last piece of loose cloth on his body, the sash with the tabard.
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:39 pm
Ugu remained firm. His even stance, rigid pauldrons, straight back, and upright sword remained posed, firm against the oncoming spirit energy attack Focused, poised, firm.. He remained bound to his fire laced ground, unheeding the incoming strike.
A frontal attack was useless. Especially with a lower rung Zanjutsu technique which seemed to have no secondary effects, aside from leaving a couple of bruises. It was probably being used to open up a weak spot. But the problem was that Ugu didn't know from where his opponent would magick himself next.
Bokutsu could not leave the arena. His opponent could not leave the 12 yard by 12 yard area, or he would instantly lose. So that meant the attack would come from the surrounding bit of roasted ground. An idea then came to Ugu.
He brought his two arms together to form an 'X'. Ugu also bent his knees, lowering his center of gravity, while he moved his tree-trunk like arms in front of himself. As he brought up his defense he began to mutter another incantation. "... never ending shadows, weakening barriers, lording evils, unholy retribution for famed deeds, shattering willows." Halfway through the technique that Bukotsu had launched, Ugu had cut down with the soul slayer in his right hand. Egeus, with its six foot long brilliance, slew downwards to hit the incoming force of blue energy. The soul slayer redirected the blast, making it head toward Ugu's right. Splinters flew left and right and flying into the crowd watching the battle. Bokutsu's technique continued for another meter, ending after creating a engraving into the charred ground.
He let a small breath escape his mouth. His sword slice had passed over his left arm, sealing the small nicks and cuts from the Wave Motion: Shark technique when he had cut at it. An oily red paste, which looked a lot like blood, clotted the several scratches. His right arm remained cut up and bloody from the exertion. His sword went back up to the normal relaxed position as his kidou took effect.
A single second after he had spoken the incantation and after he had redirected the spirit wave, Ugu's kidou went into effect. A smattering gale ripped from the fighter, heading outward for an arena ripping 32.82 yards. Anything behind himself, to his left, to his right, above him, or in front of himself would be torn apart by the gale of exploding winds. The flames caused by his Fire kidou would also be blown out.
Through-out the field the whipping shards of wood slivers ripped from the wood flooring. After several moments of cutting mayhem the pieces would eventually find themselves scattered amongst the crowd, whom was within the 32.82 yards of carnage.
Bokutsu's lightning technique would find that it was being pushed away from the apex of the whirlwind. His opponent's ball of built up electric charge would either be flung away, dissipate on Bokutsu's command, or would re-enter his opponent's body through direct collision. Along with the ball of lightning being pushed away from Ugu, Bokutsu himself would find that he was being smashed away by the bone splitting gale.
So, after the spiraling and wound creating kidou had ended, Ugu stood tall. His sword remained in front of himself, lightly bobbing with a light covering of green spirit energy. His right knee then bent itself, ready for an immediate turn if required.
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:47 pm
Bukotsu had see that his technique was fired directly at him, but it had nearly bounced of his gauntlet and into another direction, as this had happened, Ugu had seemed to cast off another spell as smashing winds were heading straight toward him, Bukotsu had no time but to put an equal amount of force to meet head on with Ugu's newly formed spell.
"Wave Motion...Hammer Hadou!" Bukotsu spoke immeadiately, as he had put his hands together as if int a pounding technique as he slammed into the ground as immense amounts of reiatsu pillars as the first one he had fired before, but as if several numerous pillars of blue fire reiatsu were sent in all directions of his body. After releasing his energy, he zeroed in on his own center of gravity. The move was also an offensive area of effect spell.
Meeting head on with Ugu's bone crushing fire gale, the two approaching forces were met with a loud crash. but not only cancelling out each power, Bukotsu's technique was followed by a serious sonicboom that followed with it as well, the moves were almost similar, but Bukotsu's had followed up with a sonic boom. But as he was now in a center fo gravity, the floor of the arena seemed to have been torn up except for a 3x3 circle around himself and around Ugu as well. Bukotsu had taken this time to use some of it to take a breather, but as he did, he had coughed up blood due to the excess intensity of the Hammer of Hadou and the extra smashing gale forces of fire hitting his chest during the blast do to one: It had used up the pressured reiatsu he built up within himself to protect himself, and pressure his body with after using his move, and two: He only had now enough reiatsu to pressure on his body for one attack.
"I'm sorry Ugu, you must not be enjoying this..." Bukotsu spoke as he slowly rose with his body almost looking as if it were torn apart from the smoke clearing. Obviously, Bukotsu had no chance in beating Ugu now if he continued with any assault in shikai, so what was the point if he went on? All he wound end up doing is tearing his entire body apart since it couldn't handle much more of the shikai techniques, he had also questioned why it had chosen such a shikai style that would be a burden entirely on his body.
"I only have one move left to use, I won't surrender, I'd rather lose with my honor... "Bukotsu said as he called his shikai to return to it's locked form. The 4 pieces of armor had exploded into hundreds of white shards and reforming into the warsword in his right hand. Taking the sword over his head as he began to channel the rest of his reiatsu into the surface of Juzumaru as if it were doing the same thing it did to Bukotsu's body, multiplying the current reiatsu in the sword by tenfold once more, but on the sword it had a more powerful and centered power that it did on a body. As he gathered more energy into it by drawing in the next to create a dense lifeforce almost the same as his hadou-techniques as the blue etched energy of hadou began to encircle the sword.
He had been gathering the energy as a bases of combing his Tempest splitter, Tempest Cutter, Great Tornado Vaccum, and envoking the sword with the power of Hadou energy into the devestating sword blast from the school of Tachi Seiho known as the 'Uraankokumatou". The black winds of the Tornado vaccum circled about his sword as an aura, as the heated winds began to form about the sword.
As he did this, Juzumaru himself had materialized behind Bukotsu as a shadow mirroring Bukotsu's own technique as his faithful friend and partner. The fierce blackened warrior found itself fusing with Bukotsu to unleash this move.
As he did this, he waited for Ugu to answer the call of Bukotsu's own power with a powerful move himself.
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