Be like water

Subject: Be like water Mon 11 Apr 2011, 1:56 am

Code:: [b]Name:[/b] Evasiveness
[b]Rank:[/b] C
[b]Type:[/b] Physical
[b]Physical Requirements:[/b] Must Specialize in Taijutsu or Medical.
[b]Training Requirements:[/b] A 600 word training post is required to gain this special characteristic.
[b]Description:[/b] The ninja trains their ability in more advanced evasive maneuvers which serves the purpose of avoiding enemy attacks. The survivability of the ninja increases as they are now capable of executing quicker flips and dodging basic forms of physical attacks by reading an enemies movement.

“I’m not usually the one that questions your methods-“Heiki looked down at a pebble set at the toes of his boot. He kicked it over the rooftop edge and it disappeared downward till it was nothing more “But I’m gonna have to ask, what in the hell are we doing up here?”

Jiyuu couldn’t answer him at first. In his mouth was a large red apple. He was sitting at the very edge of the rooftop building fitting on one boot at a time. Both Jiyuu and Heiki decided it would be best to wear shoes on the rooftop though Heiki is now considering why that would be. He grabbed the apple and ripped off a large chunk out of eat. He smacked loudly and quickly gobbled the food that was in his mouth. Heiki went on kicking more pebbles till he was ready. When Jiyuu had finished eating the apple, he set it the sides letting it balance on the tiny core on the rooftop edge. He swings his legs in and stands up slowly edging his way to Heiki “All right. Today I thought it would be a good idea to hone in on your agility and acrobatics. I was thinking maybe we could do it in the forest but the trees are what genin are taught in the academy. Genin here really haven’t really traverse the lands of the urban jungle” his hand gestures over to the large rooftop that they were standing on “Now, I picked this particular place because of its inflexible patterns and relatively something that you aren’t accustom to”

Heiki was beginning to think they were training in some type of taijutsu but what exactly he knew naught what it was. He just continued on listening to Jiyuu. He was pointing out at the infrastructure of pipes that were set up creating a large hollow box. “When I was a kid” Jiyuu said “This place was something my friends and I would hang out. It was the place to be because we get to play on a unorthodox playground. While the other people in my class wanted to play it safe and go to those set playgrounds we would venture over here to places where there were pipes, railings, stairwells, small buildings that we could run across, jump off of, hang of the piping. In any case, this taught us to be aware of our surroundings and that not everything is going to be smooth and settling like what they sometimes teach in the academy or genin. The objective is to be flexible, to be constantly moving and adjusting and also to move freely. Do you remember that lesson I taught you the other day” Heiki nodded “This is the same method only this time we aren’t dealing with the art of fight but rather the art of flight”

“Today we are going to have a spar but you are not going to be the one to be attacking. I am”

“Well that wouldn’t be a spar” Heiki said, of course pointing out the obvious to Jiyuu’s dismay.

“There will be times where you can’t simply attack your opponent one on one. The wisest choice, at the time, would be to evade and exploit your opponent so that you may have an easy way to attack. With this, we’ll train your body and eyes so that you’ll have an understanding. Following me?”

Heiki nodded. His left foot slid back slightly. He raised his left arm up and hand his right arm in the balanced position; it wasn’t too close to him and it wasn’t outstretched either. It was in coiled position ready to strike. Heiki had learned much over the first year quickly of the martial art. This stance warmed Jiyuu’s heart a bit seeing that his student was growing well for someone who just graduated the academy at such an early age. Jiyuu punched at his sides, then shaking them to stir the blood. He began to lightly hop on his feet, moving up and down, side to side loosening his muscles.

Jiyuu pushed off his foot and jabbed at Heiki. The reaction that was instant was Heiki to block or to block and counter or to simply counter. The words of his mentor spoke into him saying he must evade and wait. Heiki quickly ducked underneath. Jiyuu had a low roundhouse kick. Heiki jumped up in the air to avoid the roundhouse but was hit instantly when Jiyuu spun into a reverse roundhouse kick to Heiki sending him toppling onto the ground. Heiki rolled towards the piping jungle his sensei was talking just moments before. He spun his legs up into the air to quickly recover fallen time and ground. He could hear the voice of his father saying that if the opponent takes your time and space, you are defeated and be easily killed. No point of getting my ass kicked he thought. He wasn’t able to take on his sensei one on one, maybe give him a good hit in but it wouldn’t matter if he was badly beaten. Heiki had to think evasive and clever. Heiki legs took off ahead of him thinking that one possible way to evade getting taken one on one would be to hide oneself in the pipe jungle. He grabs onto one of the pipes and spun around it till he had both feet on the top of it. He leapt forward moving closer into the heart of the piping.

Jiyuu already had a steady pace behind him. The moment Heiki had gotten up off the ground, Jiyuu was already moving towards him. Heiki had gotten a bit of a head start going into the pipe jungle. Jiyuu had jumped onto one of the piping and spun his body upward to get to the upper part of the piping he had held onto. He then ran across the piping watching Heiki’s movements across the jungle itself. The small child moved his way through the jungle by vaulting over the piping. He used the combination of his jumping power plus adding onto his arm strength to get a good leap in. When Jiyuu saw that he was going up, he went jumped up higher and higher in the piping trying to reach him. Heiki surprised him when He didn’t vault himself upward but rather downward. Jiyuu had to halt himself. He grabbed one of the vertical piping and spun around it to not only to change his forward motion but his speed too. He pushed off towards Jiyuu. He had to perform speed vaults in order to catch up with Heiki now. For a person who just graduated, he is displaying great feats of acrobatics and speed. Jiyuu thought if he was doing this, showing off these two characteristics of himself then perhaps it is time to give him a bit of a challenge.

Jiyuu planted himself on some piping watching Heiki move farther away. He pulled out five shuriken and two kunai from the back pouch. He put one kunai in his mouth and spun the other one in his right hand. He threw the five shuriken out at Heiki. If Heiki didn’t turn around to see, his back would be full of metal and that would be fatal in some cases. If Heiki didn’t turn his head around he would be hitting the piping and have a hard tumble down on the piping and onto the ground. They were at dangerous heights and anything falling from these scaffolding would be meeting a very painful end.

Heiki turned his body mid-flight. The shuriken was coming at towards him not in a direct path but a curving path was homed in on him. Heiki twisted his body spinning eloquently with the shuriken. The objective is not to counter a strong punch with a stronger punch. Two rocks colliding will lead in an end result Heiki’s conscious was saying in Jiyuu’s voice. Remember to flow with it rather than against it. The concept was an reaction as his body began to turn not against the shuriken but with it. The shuriken flew past Heiki’s body only missing each part of his body by just inches. Two shuriken went past his eyes. He could see the shuriken spinning, the sharpen edges that were aimed towards Heiki’s skin skimmed the air around it. Heiki grabbed onto one pipe and spun around it planting his feet on the top of the pipe. He looked up and he saw two kunai come at him simultaneously. Heiki had lean his back, moving into an uncomfortable position. The kunai soared past him. Heiki had almost lost his balanced but he performed a back flip in order to remove the tension from his back and to avoid a surprise heel stomp from his sensei.

Heiki flipped from one pipe to another. He planted himself easily one of the piping. His sensei was right above him. The higher ground gave him an edge at this point. He saw Jiyuu lean forward and then he pushed himself downward towards like the falcon dropping in on its prey. Heiki saw that his hand was cocked back. He saw that if Jiyuu was going to punch then that wasn’t the initial response to assume that he was kicking. The trickster option was Jiyuu’s forte and if anything that was he was aiming for. The only way to counter trickster styles is to keep a fair distance.

Heiki only had a moment to jump over Jiyuu. Jiyuu felt Heiki’s hand on his shoulder. He pushed off of Jiyuu and flipped off of him to get onto the higher piping. He didn’t stop there, no time to stop. Heiki kicked off a pipe and dove towards his sensei. He grabbed onto his waist and wrapped tightly around him saying “Gotcha” in the process. Jiyuu looked behind him seeing his student raise his head out and stuck his tongue out. “Tch” Jiyuu mindlessly hits Heiki on the top of his head. Heiki let out a little yelp not out of pain but surprise “Don’t get too cocky kid.”

“Can’t help it. I caught you. You never said what the primary objective so I made my own” he stuck out his tongue again.

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