[Mahavira] Recruit Training

[Mitsune05]

Somewhere near the 1st headquarters was an old dojo. But it was used by many great warriors for trainings. It was a place where people were spending hours trying to improve their skills, trying to become better. It was a place that brought memories to many people, but it was no longer used as much as it used to be a while ago. It was the first time Mitsu was opening the door after months, and the air was hard to breathe. Everything was covered in dust and everything was old. Being the first who already arrived, the vice-captain jumped and landed near a window. She opened it and let some fresh air enter in the dojo, trying to make the air easier to breathe. After all, she wanted good conditions for her student in his very first training in a division. Making him feel uncomfortable wouldn't help Mitsu.

The vice-captain looked around. She couldn't hear not even a small creature flying around, nothing. Jumping back on the ground from where she was, Mitsu walked to a pillar. She sat down and crossed her arms in front of her chest, then closed her eyes. She was about to take a nap - as she always did before trainings.

OOC:

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So you're starting your first recruit training. I will communicate to you via spoiler. If something goes wrong or i have to tell you something, make sure you open the spoilers. I'm not sure if you ever RPed before [unless my memory is still good and i remember that you wrote in your application that you know RP], but i'm still leaving a link with Spar Tips and all that, read it if you want and if you have any questions, feel free to poke me via VM or PM

Frequent Questions and Role Play Tips

This is all i have to say for now, so good luck! ^_^

[Willster328]

Mahavira walked along the cracked concrete pavement towards the Old Dojo. It was a building that had been locked up for as long as he'd known about it.

As he came closer to the building he did a mental run down of it: The wood wasn't rotted, beams were not cracked, no excess of cobwebs, windows were intact. Although the building was old, it seemed to still be in decent condition. At least for now. He knew that would change once his training started.

Mahavira walked up the wooden steps onto the deck of the dojo and came face to face with the door. He grabbed the handle and slid the wooden door along the sliders to open it, revealing an open training area lined with lots of old mahogany and white pads along the walls and floors.

As he inhaled he immediately felt the stuffiness of the room and the dust that had accumulated. No. It was more than that. The stuffy feeling was more than just physical. There was an immense amount of lingering reiatsu in this dojo. This had clearly been a popular training place of old. Mahavira knew how old the roots of the 1st Division were, and he was both humbled and inspired to be training in a place where that clearly been many experienced fighters before.

And there on the side of the room, seated, propped up against a pillar was his Vice-Captain, Mitsune. She appeared to be relaxed, her chest moving up and down in simple rhythym. Meditating possibly? Or simply resting. Either way she was getting mentally prepared for this training session, as well she should. Mahavira would test her fighting abilities the best he could.

She had not opened her eyes to the sound of the door opening, but there was no doubt Mitsune would be aware Mahavira was there, so he spoke anyways.

"Good afternoon, Mitsune-sama," Mahavira said as he stood up straight and brought his torso down into a bow. "I hope you're ready to test each other," he finished as his eyes flickered up from his bowed stance to stare at his teacher.

[Mitsune05]

Mitsu was in a state between sleeping and awake. She still knew what was happening around her, yet her body started to relax more and more. Just before she was about to fall asleep for good, the girl opened her eyes as she heard a voice she haven't really heard before that often. Blinking a few times, Mitsu yawned and looked around, like she wanted to make sure she was still in the dojo she was before she fell asleep. Soon after that she got on her feet, then, after she turned her head to the door - which just closed - she saw a silhouette standing in front of it. A shinigami who just joined 1st division was already ready for his training. The vice-captain was rather glad to see someone who arrived on time to his training.

Listening to him as he spoke, the girl chuckled for a moment, before she stretched her body and yawned again. Smiling to herself as she did so, Mitsu looked with her single uncovered eye to Mahavira and scanned him for a second - like she wanted to make sure it was really him and not some unexpected visitor. After a few seconds, she knew for sure it was him, then replied to him in a calm and friendly manner [trying not to scare him too much].

"Good afternoon, Mahavira!" she said, then crossed her arms in front of her chest and paused for a few seconds. "I'm glad you already arrived here. We'll have to get out of here when we'll use kidou though, but for now we'll stay here." she said, then stretched her back and unfolded her arms from her chest, getting a more formal position. Mitsu was usually really informal and rather speaking to everyone at the same level, no matter what seat they were. She was usually speaking in a friendly manner, but she had to be a bit more formal in the training and get more serious.

"Before we begin, and as usual, i ask my recruits which one of the four skills you like using and you're the best at: hakuda, zanjutsu, hohou or kidou?" Mitsune asked, without even one bit of nervousness. She had done that many times, she knew how to train recruits and gained experience. Of course, every training was different, people had different ways to treat a battle, but she was always beginning the same: with the favourite skill. The vice-captain waited for his answer, while a smile grew on her lips as she did so.

[Willster328]

Mahavira noted the way Mitsune crossed her arms and let silence sit between them for a few moments after she greeted him. Although Mahavira had been recruited to the 1st Division some time ago, they finally decided to give him some formal training within the division itself. He wanted to make sure he gave a good impression.

She's trying to look somewhat intimidating by crossing her arms, even though she's nearly a full foot shorter than me. To most people they may take her lightly due to her small stature, gender, and informal interactions. I must remember she's a formidable enemy though, and in her position for a reason.

"Before we begin, and as usual, I ask my recruits which one of the four skills you like using and you're the best at: hakuda, zanjutsu, hohou, or kidou?" Mitsune asked.

Mahavira's eyes quickly dared around the dojo and at Mitsune's outfit, and quickly went through some immediate battle tactics. After a brief few seconds, he finally spoke his thoughts outloud:

"I don't think it's a matter of which one I like using, nor is it which am I best at. I think it's more of matter of what is most appropriate for the situation," Mahavira began to say as he started to pace back and forth, one arm behind his back and one arm under his chin. "Because you're wearing a skirt I'd assume you do it for flexibility reasons. It's easier to kick with it than it is with pants on. Looking at your arms too I can see how toned your forearm and triceps are, an indication you use your arms a lot. A rather unusual trait for most girls, but it would make perfect sense if you were a hand-to-hand specialist. And from your size, it would appear as though you would use speed to your advantage, thus making you a formidable opponant in the use of hakuda."

Mahavira paused for a moment, to see if he got any reaction out of Mitsune, but then continued speaking anyways.

"I wield a rather large broadsword, and doing a quick assessment of our differences in height, according to the Vitruvian man model, your arm length would be about 21 inches, whereas mine is 25, and I have the added range due to my use of the sword. I feel as though it would be inappropriate to engage a hand-to-hand fighter in combat with a sword, thus leaving us with two options: We fight using hokudaor we fight using zanjutsu. And I dont know how confident you might be in zanjutsu, whereas I want to see your martial arts skills first hand. I also do not wish to leave this dojo just yet so I prefer to not use kido."

Mahavira finally stopped pacing and glanced back up at Mitsune, trying to read the expression on her face. He turned to face her, bowed once again and spoke:

"I challenge you in hakuda. Show me your true strength."

[Mitsune05]

Mitsu kept smiling and waiting for his answer to her question. She gave him as much time as needed to think and speak to her. She crossed her arms again in front of her chest and looked to Mahavira with interest. For sure that was the most unique and smartest answer she had ever heard to that question. In her eyes could be read the fact that she was impressed. As Mahavira said, it depended on the situation, sooner or later, all the four skills were going to be combined and used altogether in a battle and all of them were essential for a fighter. Though most warriors were mastering one or two. She didn't reply yet though and let him continue. Her smile grew even more in the meantime. He scanned her and guessed it right: she was a specialist in hand to hand combat. Mitsu opened her eyes a bit wider, then laughed and nodded her head.

"Hahaha, you're entirely right, i specialize in Hakuda. And yes, not many girls specialize in this, but before i arrived in seireitei, in the living world, i relied a lot on hand-to-hand combat and since i already knew a lot about it, i decided to master and become better - of course while improving my other skills too." She paused for a moment then she continued to speak. "I'm being a quick person too, yes, though there are quicker people than me."

Then she fell silent again. As Mahavira spoke again, she followed every of his move with interest. Now that was a recruit she already enjoyed talking too and hopefully battle against. Chuckling again, Mitsu grinned evilly and spoke with a lower voice, getting rid of her childish way of acting.

"Well, you can challenge me in any skill you want. After all, I am the one testing you. The size of my body and the size of your body doesn't really matter as long as our moves are well thought and we don't act without thinking first. So once again, i wouldn't be in any disadvantage, whatever skill you wanna use. I am not as good in zanjutsu as others are, but i know elementary things about it. Although i may not be good, i rely more on my other skills and think logical."

She chuckled again and whispered: "So you be the one showing me what you can do, Mahavira." she said, before she suddenly vanished in a shunpo and appeared behind him. Once she was there, the vice captain flexed her knees and stretched her left leg, before she rotated anti-clockwise and attempting to sweep his legs.

[Willster328]

"I'm being a quick person too, yes, though there are quicker people than me," Mitsune said before falling silent again. Then she continued:

"Well, you can challenge me in any skill yo uwant. After, all I....."

Mahavira quickly picked up on something and immediately thought, She's now smiling deviously at me and the tone of her voice has changed. She's getting ready for something.

He quickly scanned the room to see if there were any moveable objects. Nothing. No statues. No paintings. No fountains. It was the floor, the paper-tiled walls, and the rafters a few feet above him.

The rest of Mitsune's words were almost lost on Mahavira as all of his attention was focused on her waist. He knew that people's arms and legs could be distracting, but focusing on the core of their bodies, always was a good starting place to see where their movements would take them. As he cont-----

Her torso was gone.

Mistune had disappeared in an instant. Even though the wood in the dojo was old, there wasnt even the sound of wood creaking as if to give away the direction she had moved. It was neither to his right or to his left. And suddenly he realized.

Behind. But instinctively he knew it was too late for him to take the time to fully turn around, read her movement, and react, so he did the first thing that came to his mind.

He jumped up and grabbed the rafter he had noticed earlier, and apparently just in time. Mitsune had been low to the ground and had intended to sweep kick him in order to take out his feet. Mahavira swung backward from the rafter, closer to the middle of the room and stood battle ready for her next move. He noted that he wouldnt be fast enough to make the first move, so his only real hope was to play defensive and hope for a counter-attack.

Psh, I didnt think she'd use her speed this early in the fight. Maybe I should've chose Hohou, Mahavira thought.

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OOC: Hahha two quick things, I know the picture of the dojo posted doesnt necessarily have rafters, so hopefully I didnt deviate TOO much from the scene you had envisioned. But I wanted to use it as a plotdevice only so Mahavira didnt get romflstomped this early in a fight. If the rafter thing is too much of a deviation from the scene I can rewrite it, but I was hoping that the concept of "rafters" might come in handy later in the fight as well

And secondly, the last line about Hohou is a little Easter Egg haha, sarthak_uchiha had noted in my original reply to you I had said Hohou mistakenly instead of Hakido. So I threw that in there for chuckles lol.

[Mitsune05]

OOC

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Oh no, feel free to imagine whatever you want as long as it doesn't get weird. I appreciate if you have imagination, so go ahead and use it. I picked a quick picture of a dojo, without too much detail, just to have an idea where we are training. Any other details are up to our imagination, so don't worry

I saw your original post and actually replied to hohou but i saw it matched to hakuda too xD

Well, also in a spar, after you block/dodge or whatever you do, don't forget to counterattack me *nods*

Mitsu grinned again as she saw Mahavira noticed just in time she was about to sweep his legs and used a rafter to move from that spot to another spot in the dojo. Getting back on her feet she looked to him and chuckled to herself. He was smart enough to predict her movement and managed in time to escape. Yawning slightly, like a lazy Vice-Captain she was, Mitsu vanished in a shunpo again and appeared right in front of him, hanging upwards down, with her braided tail almost touching the ground. With a really childish smile on her lips, she greeted him:

"Hello Mahavira-chaaaan!" she said with an incredibly cute voice, before she chuckled and shunpo'ed again, that time in a normal position in behind him. Her right fist was already clenched, and an evillish smirk appeared on her lips, but right before she was about to punch, she vanished once again in a shunpo and appeared right in front of Mahavira, with her fist still clenched. Not hesitating, Mitsu moved her arm upwards, quickly, aiming right under his rib cage.

[Willster328]

Unbelievable, Mahavira thought.

Mitsune had just appeared in front of Mahavira, mocking him, flashed behind him, and in the blink of an eye was back in front of him with her fist closed and coming towards his ribs fast.

Just from a natural flinching reaction, Mahavira turned to his right only slightly to absorb the blow, but luckily because of this, because she was so much shorter than him, and she was punching upward towards the bottom of his ribs, her fist came straight into contact with the hilt of his sheathed sword, which was holstered on his left side.

The impact of her punch hurt terribly, and he exhaled a grunt, but now was the time Mahavira was hoping for. She was exactly within his range and mid-attack. He was hoping he could land a single blow on her using her one physical downfall: Her right eye.

No matter how skilled or quick she was, having a patch over her right eye would hinder her depth perception and blind spot, even if only marginally. This was Mahavira's only hope for a clean hit in hand to hand combat.

As the hilt of his sword took the blunt of the damage, Mahavira's left hand shot out as fast as he could to smack the right side of her face. It wasn't even a full blow, closed fist, or with any power. It was merely intended to smack the side of her face with the message:

I hit you.

[Mitsune05]

Mitsu didn't know if Mahavira was annoyed or not by her childish way of acting. Although it seemed really immature from her, the true fact was that, Mitsu's way of acting was constantly changing, a thing she wasn't sure if it was good or bad. As long as she had fun in the battle though, it didn't matter what others thought. And that was a battle she already started to enjoy. Her fist eventually hit exactly where she wanted, though her fist made contact with the hilt of Mahavira's sword too. Right after she punched, her first reaction was to jump backwards and keep her guard up, as she was taught.

But right when she jumped a smack from Mahavira followed, aiming right to the right part of her face. Chuckling once again [ no wonder, since Mitsu was a happy person most of the time, it was natural for her to chuckle this often ], Mitsu moved quickly her right arm and placed it near to her face, that way blocking his attempt to hit her only a few millimeters away from her face. Looking up to Mahavira's eyes, Mitsu smiled and spoke.

"Nah don't think my eye is not functional or something anymore... i just wanna cover this ugly scar, see?" she said, while using her free hand to move the eye patch again and show her second emerald green eye with a visible ugly scar on it. Although it was the proof of the last battle in the living world, Mitsu preferred to hide it. After all, she was an elegant and gracious lady, she couldn't afford to show any type of scars [and no, Mitsu wasn't joking.]. Then, she childishly stuck her tongue to him, before she moved her wrist and wrapped her small but strong fingers around his wrist, and quickly in a movement, attempting to twist his arm - unless Mahavira could anticipate such tricky moves and pull his arm back, right in time.

[Willster328]

Darn! Just missed!, Mahavira thought.

As Mistsune stood in front of him talking about her eye, Mahavira couldnt help but just start laughing, not loudly, just a chuckle to himself. Mitsune wasnt mocking him earlier, she was just having fun, as evident by her witty remarks and her sticking his tongue out at him.

Mahavira saw Mitsune dart forward quickly again, going for his wrist, but this time Mahavira didn't make a move. He let her do it. And so Mitsune followed through, using her immense hand strength to snag his wrist and twist his arm upward.

He was met by what he thought looked like a slight look of surprise on her face.

"No, I did not intend to dodge your grab for my wrist. Forgive me for taking the fight so seriously earlier, this is merely a training session, and a battle that I cannot hope to win. I asked to be taught in Hakido, so please, explain to me the point of this move and why it can be dangerous," Mahavira spoke cooly, his eyes glowing with excitement.