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 Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 6:01 pm
Akiyama Eriko, Gobantai Sanseki "Freedom comes at the cost of your fearful ways. Pay it." Eriko watched as Tadashi covered his visible movements with Sekienton and blocked her Bakudo. She allowed the electricity to hit the wall on the other side and thought about her next move. Crumbling the floor was an option but also highly unnecessary. The Sanseki pulled her sword out of the ground and conjured a chain attached to the end of it, "We gracefully please." She sent out her blade into the red smoke and it began to twirl, fanning out the cloudy atmosphere. Once she spotted Tadashi, it halted in mid-air.
"Hado thirty-three Sokatsui," was her call, the sphere of blue fire firing from the tip of her sword directed at the boy, "We gracefully please." As the ball left her sword, she pulled the Zanpakuto back and held it, facing downwards. "Why are you hiding, Sakamoto?" Jesus is my Lord ♥
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Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 6:12 pm
Tadashi stopped mid-step, twirled around to face his opponent and the oncoming Blue Fire, and smirked. He raised his hand and said,"Hadō #33: Sōkatsui."
The two Sōkatsuis collided, cancelling each other out with an explosion and created a barrier of smoke.
"Bakudō #62: Hyapporankan!" he shouted immediately after, sending out a large rod of light that instantly split into many numerous smaller ones and headed towards Eriko. He then took advantage and followed his Bakudo through the smoke, hoping his for-once dirty tactic had paid off.
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Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 6:37 pm
Akiyama Eriko, Gobantai Sanseki "Freedom comes at the cost of your fearful ways. Pay it." Eriko went pale as the boy chanted a Bakudo that was higher beyond her current capabilities. She would have to consult Lee after this little spar about Kido practice for herself. Knowing the purpose of the rods, Eriko dodged them with a jump high above them but did not stop there. She felt out for Tadashi's spiritual pressure in the smoke and sent a wave of her destructive reiatsu down at him, "We gracefully please."
Upon her landing a few feet away from him, the smoke now clearing. "I'm pleased with your level of Kido but it is like you said, this session is for you to learn what you do not know, namely your Zanpakuto's name." Using what little smoke there was left to her advantage, Eriko aimed her sword at Tadashi. "Bakudo nine Geki, we gracefully please." She sent out her reiatsu as part of the paralyzing cloud as well as another attack similar to the previous wave. "Stop fooling around." Jesus is my Lord ♥
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Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 6:51 pm
Tadashi continued to grin, even though he was nearing his limit with so many consecutive Kido's being cast. He narrowly avoided the stream of powerful reiatsu, sidestepping it quickly to put some distance between it and him.
"Bakudō #8: Seki," he said immediately after, cancelling out the Geki that followed the stream. After the Kido subsided, Tadashi turned back towards the reiatsu he'd just avoided and saw it was still a ways off. Turning back to Eriko, he opened his palm and predictably cast another Kido.
"Hadō #31: Shakkahō!" he shouted. Instead of aiming at her, however, he had at the last second pointed it at the ground so that it would act as one of the smoke bombs he'd cast earlier, only with less smoke. He hoped the surprise would be enough to catch her off guard. He felt his body begin to shudder involuntarily under the stress, but he steeled himself to follow up with one last high-level Bakudo.
"Bakudō #63: Sajō Sabaku!" he shouted, feeling his body near the breaking point. However, his opponent had likely not seen the move under cover of the smoke and was probably unprepared to deal with the Locking Bondage Stripes.
[Please just go with it, if you really don't mind. If not, i'll try and think of something else for me to do, so don't worry about it.]
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Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 7:12 pm
Akiyama Eriko, Gobantai Sanseki "Freedom comes at the cost of your fearful ways. Pay it." Eriko flinched at his use of the Hado, undisturbed by his blocking of her previous assaults. However, she was indeed taken aback by yet another high level Bakudo spell, so much so that it caught her. The Sanseki tensed as the white chains coiled around her. "We gracefully please," she whispered, pushing against the restraints with her reiryoku. It was not enough and she aimed her pointer at the chains and chanted, backing it with even more reiatsu, "Hado thirty-one Shakkaho."
The red and green fire ball fired at point blank range on the chains, caused them to crack and her already pulsating reiryoku broke them the rest of the way and took most of the damage. Now, thanks to the almost consecutive use of the fire ball spells, there was a lot of smoke and dust flying about in the air. Eriko gritted her teeth and dashed towards Tadashi, aided greatly by the speed of her Shikai and sent out her sword at him, holding onto it with a chain of her reiatsu. She was tired and he was not even trying anymore to converse with his Zanpakuto. The sword was supposed to lash out and cut him across his chest deeply before returning to her. After the attack, she would fade back into sight thirty five feet away from him. [Do what you got to do.] Jesus is my Lord ♥
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Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 7:33 pm
"Ah...yes, I see," Tadashi chuckled and raised his head up high. He closed his eyes.
'It seems you've taken the lesson to heart,' observed the zanpakuto. Tadashi paused a moment and opened his eyes again, looking on as the blade of his opponent drew ever closer.
"Bathe in Crimson, Temna."
Reiatsu pulsated around Tadashi's form, and in a flash all the smoke in the room cleared as a sudden wave of it spread out. In the center of it, Tadashi stood with a large five-bladed claw attached to the hand of his sword arm. In between two of the blades was Cho, stuck there thanks to the angle at which Tadashi wielded the claw. Without warning, the middle blade turned into a shadowy tentacle and wrapped itself around Cho, snaking its way speedily around the reiatsu chain and heading up to Eriko.
[This might count as an auto-hit, but since this is the first time i'm using Shikai, its fine, isn't it? And it won't hurt you if it makes contact, btw.]
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Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 7:51 pm
Akiyama Eriko, Gobantai Sanseki "Freedom comes at the cost of your fearful ways. Pay it." "Finally."
Eriko observed the released state of the boy's Zanpakuto and the slithering motion of one of the claws. It was a shame that Cho had been up in the rest of it though. "We gracefully please," she said simply, changing the chain into a whip of equal size to the tentacle, wrapping around it tightly to stop it in its tracks.
"So, this is Temna," she commented, placing her finger on the whip and chanting, "Hado four Byakurai." The lightning was to weaken the tentacle's hold on the whip as she tugged Cho free of the claws. She pulled it out regardless if this was achieved or not. [Nah, auto-hitting would be if you had said that it did hit me.] Jesus is my Lord ♥
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Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 8:01 pm
Tadashi looked longingly at Eriko, and then at his blade, and decided that he'd had enough for one day. He resealed his zanpakuto into a katana and sheathed it. Taking a deep breath, he let his beating heart calm itself and smiled. He was Eriko relax a bit as well.
"...Thank you, Eriko Akiyama. It seems an opponent like you was exactly what I needed to earn Tenma's approval - no, not just his approval, just hearing his voice was an achievement," Tadashi bowed his head humbly, but quickly.
[Answer, then let me have another post at least]
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Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 8:33 pm
Akiyama Eriko, Gobantai Sanseki "Freedom comes at the cost of your fearful ways. Pay it." Eriko watched as Tadashi resealed his Zanpakuto and then proceeded to thank her. Did he think that he had already truly achieved Shikai? She scoffed at his bow and presently relaxed mood. "Sure, that was an achievement but do not think that you have obtained Shikai fully, not for a second."
With that, she dashed towards him and increased the force of her punch with released reiryoku covering her fist as she attempted to strike him in the chest. "We gracefully please," she stated roughly, jumping back a mere five feet away from him and pointing her sword downwards. "This is not over." Jesus is my Lord ♥
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Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 8:42 pm
Tadashi sighed and uttered his favorite spell, "Bakudō #8: Seki." The shield blocked the impact of the punch, though it shattered. When Eriko jumped back, he gave her an apologetic smile.
"I am tired, now. I appreciate your help, I do, but we'll have to continue another time. I was actually about to ask you if you wouldn't mind sparring again some time."
Tadashi Sakamoto was a bit of an antisocial person. He tended to dislike anyone he did not know, and this aura of unfriendliness shrank his world even smaller. He simply didn't know people, and didn't want to get to know them all that well. However, he had a habit of getting to like a person once they'd tolerated his presence long enough or benefited him in some way without having been ordered to. Sometimes it was just a matter of respect, like with his Captain. In this case, it was a bit of all.
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Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 8:52 pm
Akiyama Eriko, Gobantai Sanseki "Freedom comes at the cost of your fearful ways. Pay it." Eriko sighed as well but sealed her Zanpakuto with a whispered thanks to Cho. Her gray eyes flickered over to Tadashi. "Fine, we'll continue this another time and I expect you to continue your efforts in knowing more about Temna. Send word when you are ready for another spar." The Sanseki sheathed her sword and walked over to the boy, touching his shoulder and said softly, "You did good today." After that, she was off the Training Grounds and headed for somewhere else. Jesus is my Lord ♥
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Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 8:55 pm
Tadashi waited until she was out before he allowed his knees to buckle. He spent a minute gathering his composure before walking out. He'd file the report on his Shikai, then head right to the springs...
(Over)
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