Post by Ai on Aug 23, 2009 14:53:39 GMT -5
Narrowly ducking under the kick Kamair's foot scarcely scrapped the top of Sayuri's head, but in response to the thrust of sheathed sword - all Sayuri did was tilt to the side a little. The scabbard slid across the base of her neck as if not even bothering to treat it as if it may be an unsheathed weapon.
With two swift strikes, she swatted at Kamair's arm holding his sheathed blade as it was still stuck out from his initial thrust at her neck - the swat at his arm with the back of her hand attempting to strike it with her electrically charged metal plate charged as she mumble quietly, "Hadou...", immediately following up that swat with the back of her hand at his arm with back-handed jab directly for his chest with the other electrically charged metal plate as she continued to recitingly mumble quietly, "No. 58...", swiftly following up with a third strike with the hand that swatted at Kamair's arm with an open palm strike once more attempting to strike his chest as she finisher by lastly reciting, "Tenran..."
In that instant a powerful torandoing burst of wind exploded from her right hand. Clothes fluttered from the excess winds exuded from the initial spell casting went blew into existence. Directly after casting the spell she did a few quick back-hand springs away from Kamair creating some distance between them, and remarked, "You may have noticed... I'm not treating your sheathed blade as though it were unseathed weapon... While, that may seem... dishonorable or even unfair... to be perfectly candid, I don't care... I'm an assassin, our way of fighting is not meant to be fair or honorable - it is only meant to eliminate your target efficiently... Your blade is sheathed, as an assassin, even in a sparring session, I will treat it like you are handicapping yourself, which you are... and thus I'm exploiting it."
Closing her eyes a little before slowly openning them she went on to say, "In our initial clash, you knocked me off balance while I was doing a backflip to evade and used your sheathed weapon to strike at me, but it's sheathed - so I used it to regain my balance. Were you to ignore the blade and face me with Hakuda or had it unsheathed, I would have been in a lot trouble. This time you came at me with what could have been a deadly strike with your blade, but it's sheathed and no danger to me, so I simply stepped into it and took advantage of what I believed to be an openning. Sparring is about enhancing your fighting technique, I understand you are keeping your blade sheathed as not to harm me, which it is the vice versa of that reasoning that I did not bring my blade. But, coming at me with a sheathed blade while treating it as though it were an unsheathed blade rather than a bludgeoning weapon, is a handicap I will aim to exploit every single time."
Sayuri suddenly smiled fondly as she remarked with a bit of a soft tone as she stared off a little, "I remember when I first joined Onmitsukido we were often told... 'When your enemy's back is to you, that's your chance...' A handicap is the same as having your back to your opponent, and while I have lowered my reiatsu to be the same as yours, I will not change my fighting style; and my last couple sparring sessions...", she briefly side glanced to Soifon very briefly before looking back to Kamair, "taught me harshly the folly of sandbagging your ability in sparring... It dulls you. During missions for Onmitsukido, I do not attack openly, I strike from the shadows breaking a knee-cap to bring my opponent to their knees before breaking their neck. I do not announce my Kidou spells, I mumble them, proclaiming or announcing is not the same as reciting. And I always resort to deception and trickery, even in sparring - I do not fight fairly. Fighting fairly - I will lose."
She then eased into a defensive Hakuda stance this time waiting for Kamair to make the next move instead of she going after him, especially after all that she said just now. She was curious to see if changed his tactics or not.
With two swift strikes, she swatted at Kamair's arm holding his sheathed blade as it was still stuck out from his initial thrust at her neck - the swat at his arm with the back of her hand attempting to strike it with her electrically charged metal plate charged as she mumble quietly, "Hadou...", immediately following up that swat with the back of her hand at his arm with back-handed jab directly for his chest with the other electrically charged metal plate as she continued to recitingly mumble quietly, "No. 58...", swiftly following up with a third strike with the hand that swatted at Kamair's arm with an open palm strike once more attempting to strike his chest as she finisher by lastly reciting, "Tenran..."
In that instant a powerful torandoing burst of wind exploded from her right hand. Clothes fluttered from the excess winds exuded from the initial spell casting went blew into existence. Directly after casting the spell she did a few quick back-hand springs away from Kamair creating some distance between them, and remarked, "You may have noticed... I'm not treating your sheathed blade as though it were unseathed weapon... While, that may seem... dishonorable or even unfair... to be perfectly candid, I don't care... I'm an assassin, our way of fighting is not meant to be fair or honorable - it is only meant to eliminate your target efficiently... Your blade is sheathed, as an assassin, even in a sparring session, I will treat it like you are handicapping yourself, which you are... and thus I'm exploiting it."
Closing her eyes a little before slowly openning them she went on to say, "In our initial clash, you knocked me off balance while I was doing a backflip to evade and used your sheathed weapon to strike at me, but it's sheathed - so I used it to regain my balance. Were you to ignore the blade and face me with Hakuda or had it unsheathed, I would have been in a lot trouble. This time you came at me with what could have been a deadly strike with your blade, but it's sheathed and no danger to me, so I simply stepped into it and took advantage of what I believed to be an openning. Sparring is about enhancing your fighting technique, I understand you are keeping your blade sheathed as not to harm me, which it is the vice versa of that reasoning that I did not bring my blade. But, coming at me with a sheathed blade while treating it as though it were an unsheathed blade rather than a bludgeoning weapon, is a handicap I will aim to exploit every single time."
Sayuri suddenly smiled fondly as she remarked with a bit of a soft tone as she stared off a little, "I remember when I first joined Onmitsukido we were often told... 'When your enemy's back is to you, that's your chance...' A handicap is the same as having your back to your opponent, and while I have lowered my reiatsu to be the same as yours, I will not change my fighting style; and my last couple sparring sessions...", she briefly side glanced to Soifon very briefly before looking back to Kamair, "taught me harshly the folly of sandbagging your ability in sparring... It dulls you. During missions for Onmitsukido, I do not attack openly, I strike from the shadows breaking a knee-cap to bring my opponent to their knees before breaking their neck. I do not announce my Kidou spells, I mumble them, proclaiming or announcing is not the same as reciting. And I always resort to deception and trickery, even in sparring - I do not fight fairly. Fighting fairly - I will lose."
She then eased into a defensive Hakuda stance this time waiting for Kamair to make the next move instead of she going after him, especially after all that she said just now. She was curious to see if changed his tactics or not.
