Meeting The Master [nk io Yaju]

Angel set up in her same stance as when they started, prepared for her masters counter.  It hadn’t surprised her that Yaju was able to move with such agility. His training in his wolf form undoubtedly had increased his abilitiy to tumble and roll with a fall.  It was a key ability in Taijutsu, from what she had learned.  Angel was ok at tumbling but though she had little practice.  She was helped by her height and low weight that decreased the damage of simply falling over.  Her master was wonderful at teaching her without even saying anything.

As Yaju moved Angel braced herself digging her toes in.  Yaju dashed straight forward and at the last second went to her right.  The blows from his right hand were obvious being his left arm was out of range.  As was her style she redirected the blows with her arms moving in a circle pattern turning the jabs outside her body, first to the right then to the left then the right.  As most fighters know it is much easier to redirect a blow then to stop it entirely.  This allows the blocker to expend less energy while the attacker tires themselves out.  Yaju’s sudden rotation closed the gap for his left arm to get some action.  It was a swift move but angel had just enough time to rotate slightly and brace for the impact of the blow.

Yaju’s fist came out of nowhere.  The left jab had been a feint and Angel had fallen for it hard.  The right straight nailed her straight in the chest causing instant pain.  She stumbled backward almost completely lifted off her feet.  Her back landed solidly against a training dummy, knocking the rest of her breath out of her chest.  However the support of the dummy kept her on her feet.  Wheezing and wincing angel kept at least one eye open to watch the actions of her master.  She would then take long pained breaths to restore her calm.  Regaining her balance she would solidify her arms defensive positions.  “shake it off”  she would verbally say to herself. 


It was Angel’s turn, assuming her master allowed her the respite.  Closing the distance angel would take an extra-long step with her right leg as is to fade to that side.  Then setting her weight on that leg she spread her toes brought her left arm up to defend her head and her left knee up high to defend the left side of her body from the counter that was sure to come.  This allowed her protection on the left and freedom on the right to block any blows with her hand and more attention on that right side that was open.  She kept an Eye on Yaju’s hips and shoulders.  This was not a pose she was holding, but merely a transition to her next movement.  She would only stay like this for a moment, preparing to counter her master’s movement.  Her muscles and lungs burned, maybe training so soon might not have been a great idea.

For a moment he wondered if he had actually put a little too much power into that punch but after seeing his student get back up and jump into the fray again he would smile and bound back a couple a feet before returning to his weird fighting stance. As he stood there for a moment he inadvertedly felt his kitsune ears and tail emerge from his body, the silky silver tail wrapping around his torso before falling to the ground," Oh shit...well this is something worth looking into later," maybe using that fighting style wasn't a good idea, but hey results are results aren't they? As his lavender eyes watched Angel move closer to him, at first he would plan on throwing a flurry of punches at her to throw her off guard before ending it with a kick, but judging from the stance she had just taken, he needed something cunning.

Smiling he would run towards her with his hands in front of him, but stopped two meters in front of her and begun to spin around her before stopping to her left and performing a fast low sweep to take her off balance, but his foot would not reach her. Midway through the kick he would use his hands to push himself backwards, his tail wrapping around her leg completely and pulling her with him. His tail being three meters in length and lightweight would wrap around her leg unless she moved out of the way, but then she would fall into his next trick. At the moment his body would reach a meter from her he would use his legs to propel himself forward towards her in a charging position. What made this different from a normal dodge is that his fists would be tucked near his body.

Once he had closed the distance between Angel and himself he would begin to throw right hooks after left hooks in rapid succession as if his hands had begun to blur. After his fourth punch he would throw an intentional left jab as if he wanted her to grab his arm or block it, and when she did he would grab her with his tail and pivot around her and wrap his arms around her waist to bridge backwards to slam her into the ground. Although midway into the bridge he would stop leaving her head suspended over the ground," Think we will call it a day here," he would speak these words softly providing his attack went through. Standing back upright he would sit her down slowly, although his right hand would brush up against her chest not on purpose though. Stepping back he would wonder when his tail and ears would go away but by now he would see that he had two out instead of one which only meant that he activated his partial sage mode without knowing.

She didn’t fail to notice the tail and ear popping out of her master.  This wasn’t good.  Her master was transforming into the wolf.  Angel was pretty sure that she should turn and run right now.  She wasn’t really sure what the specifics of her master’s transformation.  She knew he retained the ability to speak but beyond that she didn’t know whether he kept his mind or if the adrenaline wolf causes the wolf to tear her apart.  But it seemed like her master wasn’t worried about it.  He made no motion to stop the fight….She would just have to trust him. 
 
He approached her but stopped out of range.  She flexed all her muscles preparing for the attack.  He began circling to her left, which made sense moving into her blind spot.  But he also moved into range to perform a kick.  With him in range she began her assault.  Stomping down hard she accidentally landed on her masters tail as his kick which turned out to be a feint ended.  His pinned tail might even prevent him from escaping backward maybe even stop the attack that the tail might have made.  At the same time she converted the momentum of her stomp into rotational power at her shoulders and hips adding even more power with a twist and pushing hard with her right leg adding leverage to her punch.  The first blow would be aimed at his chest, while he was still bent over.  As she had stepped on his tail while he was crouched for the sweep kick standing back up was also difficult in his position.  Should the blow land Angel would follow it with the same rotation pushing her right leg off, twist on her left leg and her masters tail she would round house kick him in the face.  Should this land she would retreat taking her defensive position.
 

Angel had no Idea how she was doing.  Another couple blows from her master she would probably be out for the day.  Her chest still hurt.  That wasn’t going to go away anytime soon.  A major part of the gentle fist style Angel had witness from the few people she had fought, was that the style wore away at your defenses.  You would gradually lose the ability to fight.  Yaju’s blow to her chest was the command center of her fighting force.  His power had left its mark.  Though, it was probably just because she had never been that strong to begin with.  She had never been good at hand to hand combat which is why she had asked her friend to teach her when she was young.  Back then all the boys used to pick on her for being different and as a Kunoichi Angel didn’t want to take the abuse.  She had to fight back.  And that’s what she did and she never stopped fighting back, against everything that kept trying to get in her way.  Angel realized her focus was dissipation and she reapplied her guard.

The feint had been pulled and acted on as angel had finally moved into motion as he planned, even with his tail being stepped on she would have inadvertedly fell for the plan he had laid out. Once her foot had stepped onto his tail he would smile inwardly as he waited for her to complete her first attack. What Angel didn't know was that his tail wasn't just one full tail, it was two. The second tail would emerge from its prone position and continue to renact the movements of the first while Angel had still been in the motion for her first punch, the tail would successfully wrap around the thigh portion of her right leg, the closest one to him.

With this movement being done he would begin to stand up in a half bent position giving him enough leverage to not only take her first blow but block it with his right hand by catching it in his right hand and closing his grip onto it before she could pull away. With her being locked by his tail and hand he would pull her into him with his full strength making her escape become next to impossible. With the force of pulling her she would come off of his first tail, the long object wrapping around her waist and causing her to become wedged onto his chest as his left arm completed the grapple and held her in place. From this movement he would use the strength in his legs to commence a bridge, causing the both of them to bend backwards until her head and been once again close to the ground.

Within the small frame of time she would find her head floating inches above the ground while still locked in his grapple he would slowly unravel her from his tails and stand up slowly, letting her small body be released from his as he back flipped and stood up. Hopefully from that small display right there she would stop to prevent anymore...injuries from happening and also beacuse he did not know why the hell these fox tails came out of nowhere, although it could have been from using the fighting methods of the fox...then again he really didn't care.

Angels foot fell heavy on the tail as she began her attack.  Suddenly a second tail came out of nowhere.  Angel was already dedicated to her attack.  She had put too much on the line for her attack.  But then again she knew too little about the art of hand to hand combat to know how to prevent her master from overwhelming her.  The second tail wrapped around her left thigh being it was the closest to Yaju.  It was obvious that her master could easily beat her.  The power he had in his tail was enough to overpower her.  The tail pulled her leg of the other one and it swiftly wrapped around her waist pulling her into the biggest bear hug she had ever had.  She felt herself being pulled off the ground with amazing force.  She let the attack continue.  She really had no option that would get neither of them hurt.  Wincing waiting for the inevitable suddenly everything stopped.  Opening her eyes she saw the ground only inches away.  “Good job.  Proved your point” Yaju released her.  He seemed more alarmed by his tail and ears than she did….though he seemed to utilize the wolf tails in battle fairly well for someone being surprised the tails were there.  “So….?”  Angel waited.  Her master was strong but he intimidated her.  She supposed that wasn’t a bad thing but she wanted teaching.  She was also very frustrated.  She thought her moves were very well planned out and executed.  But her masters special fighting style had blocked everything.  Angel began to beat her forehead on a stone training dummy.  She somehow was always able to screw up.  No matter what she did it was never good enough in the end.  Her earth style chakra protected her head from any damage but this helped her think.  Her face twitched almost imperceptibly and with the help of a little earth style shoved the entire puppet into the ground.  Gritting her teeth she sat down and took a large breath in through her nose and held it.  Using the breath to mix and balance her positive and negative chakra she expelled the excess negative chakra out though her breath.  It was a trick she had learned to keep her calm.  “Master, teach me what I’m doing wrong.”  She needed to figure out what she does wrong.  The things she does right she will simple continue to do.  But it’s the wrong things that she had to work on.  She would stand up and brush herself off stretching her muscles while her master deals with his extra appendages.

The tails wrapped around his waist slowly as he smiled to Angel and walked over to her before pulling her into a hug and ruffling her soft hair," Don't beat yourself up over it...from the looks of it you were using the Gentle Fist style correct? Your stance so far is flawless and good along with your speed and dexterity....the only thing wrong was that you do not have the other fundamentals that make the style useful. Watching her move to the dummy and begin to slam her head into it, he would move behind her and pull her form into him as he hugged her. His body would be pressed against hers as his tails slowly comforted her," Don't beat yourself up over it Angel...," moving away from her for a moment he would tap the tails on his chin as he formulated a lesson plan to help her out with this.

When she had asked him to point out and help her find out what was wrong he would place a tail onto her lips and chuckle," Remember i told you not to call me master, just call me by my given name or i will make you run laps around these cavern systems," removing the tails he would nod," I'll teach you the ways of the Gentle Fist and even teach you some of the techniques, BUT what i teach you....you cannot under any circumstances teach anyone what i teach you and i will need you to swear on your life that you will uphold this agreement," after she had agreed to his terms he would nod and continue," good. Oh by the way these are fox tails....don't ask if i twitch when you scratch my ears...because i think that answer is obvious now get into your stance and lets begin," sliding to the left he would stand beside her and wait for her to join him.

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Yaju was so kind.  It was hard to imagine he was such a good fighter.  Angel nodded “Yeah well my stance and movements are derived from the Gentle fist style.  I had a child hood friend that I used to train with.  I kind of copied off how she would fight.  But…When she uh….When she died I had to train on my own.  But obviously it wasn’t enough”  Angel then moved to the dummy and proceeded with her admonishment ritual.  However Yaju came over to stop her.  Looking up at him her forehead would be undamaged, but her eyes would reveal the turmoil still bubbling.  The problem was she simply couldn’t just figure out this problem like she did with the other problems.  But Yaju did a good job with replacing that issue with a solveable one.  He told her not to call him master.  This was the second time.  She normally was good at not calling him that but when she got upset it seemed it would slip out.  But that was only because in her head she still referred to him and her master.  He was the only one to fill that role and that was the role he was filling.  However to him it was only a matter of the title that he didn’t want her saying.  She could fix the issue and hopefully never call him that.  She really didn’t want to run laps.  But the solution was a psychological one.  She merely made her masters name synonymous with the title and whenever she thought of the title would instead use his name.  It was as simple as it sounded and Angel felt good that she could solve a problem.


Then Yaju surprised her again.  By saying that He would train her to use the Gentle fist style.  Angel didn’t know what to say.  The fact that he was able to teach her meant that he was of the Hyuuga clan himself.  Angel had no idea, but she supposed she hadn’t spent too much time around her master, to know his entire background.  But that being said he probably would be the only master that she could have had to complete her training.  “I promise Yaju on pain of death that I shall keep this oath.”  The words had come to her from some recess of her mind.  She got a flash of a man cloaked in the night.  She had been very young.  It looked like her mother was in the room talking to him.  She heard her mother utter the same words.  “…On pain of death I shall keep this Oath.”  It was all she remembered.  Angel smiled as Yaju talked about his tails.  Now she wanted to scratch his ears.  Then he began and Angel followed closely.  She was always a good student.  But she was beginning to see the wall she would have to face.  “Yaju… This technique is just… It’s designed to be used in conjunction with the Hyuuga line’s Byakugan.  I can do the movements but what effect will it have?”  Even with these concerns it didn’t prevent Angel from still practicing.  Just because it was hard didn’t mean she would give up.

While it was true that she would need the Byakugan to see the chakra points in conjunction with the clan's technique's there was also something else she could do with it. Looking at Angel he would smile," True you would need the Byakugan in order to see the chakra points and shut them down, but the Gentle Fist can also be used to shut down the body's mobility. Just like the Chakra points, the body's pressure points can be used to disable and immobilize someone, Here let me show you," walking over to the stone dummies he would softly strike four of the common pressure points in the body, each located on the sides of the shoulders and arms.

After striking them he would smile and begin to explain," Within striking these four pressure points with the Gentle Fist style, you can efficiently shut down both arms to slow the enemy down. This can be done without the Byakugan and allow you to use the style just like its intended use. This is what i will be teaching you slowly with the help of some of the charts and books in the house you will be able to use this style to your own advantage and make something of it for yourself," after fully explaining it to her he would chuckle and flex his fingers.

After looking around for a bit he would have found one of the books he was actually talking about, remembering that he had been using that book to make up something new, but he had given up on it after a couple of days. One of his tails would reach for the book and then pass it to Angel," read over this in your spare time and learn the pressure points of the body in verbatim to make sure you can find them on anybody regardless of height or weight. Also you will need to further condition your body so that your fingers can properly channel and use the chakra that you will be using to shut down and damage these pressure points. After that you will be able to use the style and be good in it," after speaking he would lean down and wait for her to either ask him some questions or try out what he had shown her, but as it stood he would be able to see her actually getting through this training.

While Angel was busy reading the book, Yaju walked upstairs to grab a couple of other things she would need to study in the event that she would actively pursue this route to make herself stronger in the arts of Taijutsu. In his own little study he had various books on the art of taijutsu which were mostly written from the aspects of other practitioners but there was one book that he had written himself about the practical uses of taijutsu through using Raiton as an additional force. It was a fighting style he once used as a Genin and up until his chuunin days before he had left the world of taijutsu and went on to train under new styles which eventually lead up to him mastering the art of Fuuinjutsu. Sitting that particular book back into the shelf he slowly walked out of the office, heading down to the living room where he left Angel last and sat the books onto the table while sitting down in the adjacent chair and watching her.

His eyes slowly watched her read over the book with such intent that it made him inwardly smile at the way she wanted to get stronger made him proud to be her sensei. As the minutes passed and she continued to read he slowly rested his head onto his right fist as he merely watched and observed the young girl read the book. After she had finished he would yawn slightly and begin to speak," So what did you think of the book Angel?," although he would slowly stop his sentence once she had fully left the living room and went outside.

Patiently he would wait for her to come back into the house where he would listen to her every word before finally speaking," Good to see that the book actually did you some good, but if you want to go further there are some others here that will help you get the feel for the taijutsu arts," he'd stop for the moment however to think over what she had just asked him and nodded for a second before continuing," Sure i don't have much to do tomorrow or the day after so we can train that day and allow your body to relax and recuperate. Now if you do not want to stay at home and stay here for that time you can, you can simply either go home and get some clothes or use some of my older clothing until the training is over tomorrow and we can wash the clothes you wore today," giving her the option to stay or go he would remain in his seat as he awaited the answer from his student.