Neo League 026 - #35: Eiji vs Hinako

Description: Sumo vs Ninja!? Sumo shouldn't have said the ninja brought cold pizza. Flipping out ensues. (Winner: Eiji)



Things are getting a bit late in the evening as Winter is starting to really make itself known. The clearing is mostly bare save for a few individuals in heavy coats carrying notepads and standing about. Officials for the fight that is about to take place it would seem. There is no crowd or cameras this evening much like the previous two fights that have involved the ninja known as Eiji Kisaragi. The chilly breeze kicks up every now and then and even though the officials are bundled up, the ninja is not.
Glad in his usual fighting gear he sits on the ground of the clearing that has been designated for the fighting place tonight. Hands rest on knees and he sits Indian style with eyes closed. It should not be too long before his opponent arrives. Yet another girl that he does not know well, but hopefully she will be an entertaining playtoy like the last one. Yes Acacia pushed him to his limit and it seems his expectations might be a bit high as he has yet to see what this Hinako girl looks like as of yet.

COMBATSYS: Eiji has started a fight here.

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Eiji             0/-------/-------|


Hinako's not used to fights that don't have at least a few spectators. At first she thinks she's arrived in the wrong spot, but one of the officials confirms that this is the place, and Eiji is her opponent. She tries to size him up, but reading her opponents isn't really one of Hinako's best skills... unless the opponent is a sumo wrestler, anyway.
Despite the weather, Hinako is wearing a fairly short purple dress... with purple kneepads. She needs her legs free, and wearing pants just isn't very ladylike, so... skirt. She'll be warm soon enough anyway, once the fight gets going. Waving to Eiji, the blonde girl looks quite cheerful, although she's not sure if he even knows she's here yet. "Um, hello! I'm Hinako, your opponent for tonight. I hope we have a good match!"

COMBATSYS: Hinako has joined the fight here.

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Eiji             0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0           Hinako


The footfalls of the girl's approach were enough to get the attention of the ninja. He almost looks frozen in place given the lack of movement he shows aside from the slight rising and falling of his chest. Slowly he opens his eyes and he gazes towards the girl. Not quite what he expected to see, but still it is a bit too late to decide against fighting her. He nods his head slowly and he finally rises to his feet before reaching into the top of his outfit to pull out a pair of red fingerless gloves. "Yes, please be a good sport for me. I do hate it when I am left with no challenge." he replies in a rather cold and uncaring tone.
After each glove is pulled on his hands light up briefly from a spark of red energy and then Eiji claps his hands together and then rolls his broad shoulders before falling into a fighting stance. "Show me what you can do." Since he has no clue just how skilled this girl is he will let her get the first strike in. If she seems tough like the last one then he will need to keep from holding back. He doesn't want to let himself get a bad repuation afterall.

COMBATSYS: Eiji takes no action.

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Eiji             0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0           Hinako


Hinako closes her eyes for a moment, clenching her fists and tensing up her arms as she prepares herself to fight. When she finishes she leans forward, crouching over and holding her hands out in front of her, displaying the white tape on her hands and fingers. "Okay, here I come!"
Moving in toward Eiji, Hinako ignores the red energy from his hands for now... Regardless of that, she still has to get in close if she wants to succeed here. Reaching out for the ninja, Hinako attempts to get one hand on his shoulder, and hook the other underneath his arm on the opposite side. Should that succeed, she'll lift him off his feet, then send him crashing face first into the ground.

COMBATSYS: Eiji endures Hinako's Kake Nage.

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Eiji             0/-------/-----==|=------\-------\0           Hinako


There is a slight quirking of his lips as he watches the girl close the distance between them both. He actually stands up straight as he lets his guard down when she comes reaching for him. That stone cold gaze remains locked on her as she comes in to lift him and swing him about. Despite being pretty short himself he is quite heavy due to the upper body strength he has from training with the likes of Krauser. He slams hard into the ground face first and his body remains prone at the girl's feet before it starts to look insubstantial and soon it becomes light wisps of smoke that trail away. A simple distraction for one such as himself. A replacement technique that has allowed him to get behind and above the girl as he leaps from the trees and decends towards her with an arm raised. His hand crackles and erupts with red energy when he brings it downwards. The energy acts much like a regular blade would, seeking to cut cloth and skin as he tries to see how well the girl can take a hit.

COMBATSYS: Eiji successfully hits Hinako with Mist Slash.

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Eiji             0/-------/---====|=====--\-------\0           Hinako


It takes a moment for Hinako to figure out where Eiji has gone, but she's not completely clueless, and manages to turn around while he's still descending. Hinako's been hit by some energy attacks before... She doesn't like them, but she figures that she can stand it, and maybe it'll give her an opening, if she just takes the hit and then immediately counterattacks. It doesn't quite work that way.
The energy blade slices into her left shoulder, slipping down and away as she jerks to the side in reaction to the pain. Paling somewhat, Hinako puts a hand up to the slice in her dress, and comes away looking at blood on her hand. She actually looks a little queasy for a moment, then visibly composes herself and frowns at Eiji. This is the first time she's ever had to deal with being /cut/ in a fight, and she's not entirely fond of it.
Thrusting out with her right arm, Hinako tries to slam an open-palmed strike into Eiji's stomach with enough force to dent a car door. At the same time she grabs for his head with her left hand, trying to switch herself from striking to griping, using the opening from the initial blow to heft Eiji up and then fling him over in the direction of the trees. There's no walls around, but if she can get him close enough to those, there are some things she might be able to do...

COMBATSYS: Eiji dodges Hinako's Combo Throw.

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Eiji             0/-------/---====|=====--\-------\0           Hinako


Chuckling lightly, the ninja flicks his wrist and some of the blood that covers his fingertips smatters across the grass as he nods. "There, now the fight has truely begun." he whispers quietly as he moves to fall back in his fighting stance with plenty of time to react to the attacking girl. He sways away at the last moment to avoid the grasp of the girl and he then sways the opposite way as he ducks low to come in and leap upwards to sling a knee forward to plant into Hinako's chin and then push off of her to backflip away and land on his feet in a graceful manner. "Please don't hold back, girl. I want to feel how much pain you can offer."

COMBATSYS: Hinako fails to interrupt Light Kick from Eiji with Tsukidashi.

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Eiji             0/-------/--=====|======-\-------\0           Hinako


Hinako looks considerably less happy than she did at the start of the fight. Still, this is a learning experience... Learning things like pain, for example, when Eiji's knee slams into her chin, causing her head to jerk back. She actually stands up straight for a moment as she staggers back, before dropping back down into her fighting stance.
And... What's that this guy is saying. "Um... You know, that's really creepy. But you don't need to worry about me holding back!" Her eyes narrow for a moment, and she flexes her fingers as she begins advancing on Eiji again, trying to get back into range for another attack.

There is a sigh that comes from Eiji as he crosses his arms and stands up straight. He glances away from the girl towards the judges for a moment. A quick reminder that he is here for pleasure and not business this time around. Even if the latter usually has pleasure in it as well he knows he cannot kill tonight. All he needs is every fighter of justice coming around to avenge some lowly girl that he had beaten to a pulp and saw unfit to live. He turns his attention back towards the advancing fighter and he steps forward again this time to swing a large arm back and then forward to hit the girl right in the sternum with his closed fist.

COMBATSYS: Hinako blocks Eiji's Quick Punch.

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Eiji             0/-------/--=====|======-\-------\0           Hinako


This time, at least, Hinako is ready for Eiji. His fist swings out, crashes into a single raised forearm from the petite girl... and stops dead. Hinako's arms and legs are trained to deal with the force from full-sized sumo wrestlers; stopping a punch isn't that bad, as long as she can manage to get her arms into position.
And there's always the chance that seeing something like that from such a tiny girl will surprise people, and Hinako doesn't mind taking advantage of that. She throws herself at Eiji, trying to wrap her arms firmly around his torso. It almost seems like she's hugging him... until she arches her back, pushes up with her legs, and attempts to hurl the ninja up into the air with enough force to set her dress fluttering wildly. Hmm. Maybe it's a good thing that there aren't many people around, after all.

COMBATSYS: Hinako successfully hits Eiji with Tasuki Nage.

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Eiji             1/-------/=======|=======\-------\1           Hinako


Ahh, there it is. Some signs of fight left in the girl. Even though he is far from being a sumo he can pack a decent punch so he is mildly impressed at her just outright stopping it. He then finds himself grasped firmly and before he manages to slip free of Hinako's grasp and gets tossed upwards and away. He twists about as he flies across the field and he lands in a roll to reduce some of the pain that he recieves from the harsh landing. While kneeled over he seems to do something with his hands and another illusion begins to unfold as he stands.
By the time he is standing fully there are three exact copies of Eiji staring down Hinako along with them. They all give a rather malicious grin before speeding forward they all attempt to lunge and slash at Hinako with a reddish blade of energy. Three are harmless enough, but only serve as a distraction so the real Eiji can come in and get a clean cut at the girl's side if all bodes well.

COMBATSYS: Eiji successfully hits Hinako with Shadow Attack.
-* CRITICAL HIT! *-

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Eiji             1/-------/=======|=======\======-\1           Hinako


Three Eijis? What's Hinako supposed to do now!? Well, whatever it was, she fails to do it. She looks wildly from one ninja to the next trying to figure out which one to focus on... right up until the moment that Eiji's energy-sheathed hand slices into her side. If the dress wasn't ruined before, it certainly is now, with a large rent torn open on Hinako's right side. More important, however, is the similar tear in the flesh underneath, where Eiji's hand cut deeply, thankfully not so deep as to hit any organs, but coming quite close to slamming into the girl's pelvic bone.
And Hinako's reponse to this? Initially, at least, it's a very loud shriek of pain, followed by nearly falling over in shock. Ground in reflexes keep Hinako on her feet, but just barely. She's bleeding quite badly now, and she really looks like she's going to be ill. Her lips are pressed tightly together as she stares at Eiji, stepping painfully toward the ninja with her now somewhat bloodstained hands held out in front of her.
The blond girl takes a deep breath, spreading her hands wide open, and then she lunges at Eiji. Her hands lash out, trying to slam both palms into Eiji's stomach, and if they hit... The force behind the blow is enough to knock a truck over. The intention /here/ though, is to send Eiji flying all the way across the clearing until he slams into one of the trees with enough force that he'll rebound back to Hinako, where she can slam him with /another/ strike, although not quite so powerful.

COMBATSYS: Eiji endures Hinako's Morote Zuki.

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Eiji             1/---====/=======|===----\-------\0           Hinako


Unlike the Acacia girl it seems his little tricks are enough to throw the girl off and make it hard to judge his moves. ANd the scream is just what he wants to hear. He actually lets out a small chuckle as he turns about. Of course that gets cut off when he feels those that forceful blow slam into him and knock the air out of his lungs. He goes airborne and flies backwards till there is the snapping as if his back just breaks from the force of him hitting the trunk. His body is a bit lifeless looking as he sails back towards Hinako and when she hits it there is the odd feeling of at first connecting with something solid and then just pushing through it as the body explodes into smoke.
Damned if he was going to let himself be hit behind slamming into that tree. When the girl is pissed she can actually pack a wallop. The replacement body should hopefully distract her from the smoke rising up behind her that Eiji emerges from and his hand reaches out to grasp for her shoulder.

COMBATSYS: Eiji successfully hits Hinako with Steel Mantis Strike EX.

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Eiji             0/-------/------=|=======\==-----\1           Hinako


That hand grips tightly and he spins the girl about before his other hand lashes out to take her by the throat. "Good enough I suppose, but you should do something more suiting for a young woman such as yourself." he informs the girl before she finds herself on the recieving end of a rather brutal flurry of fists and kicks that pummel away any sort of defense she might try to put up and in the end he raises a clenched first as the flames ignite around it and he hammers it downwards to slam her into the ground forcefully before he kicks her aside. "Not a total waste of time at least." he murmurs to himself and he starts to walk towards the girl again.

'More suitable for a young woman'...?
Hinako doesn't have much time to react to that as she's being slammed around and driven into the ground, and she can feel herself starting to get woozy. Massive blunt trauma and blood loss will do that to a person. But she still has the /very/ strong to desire to make Eiji eat those words. Just because she's a woman doesn't mean she's weak!
She lays still for a moment as Eiji walks toward her, gathering what little strength she has left. As soon as the ninja comes into range, she leaps to her feet, throwing herself at Eiji in what seems at first like an attempt at a clothesline. If she manages to get her arm on his neck, though, she clenches down, using her momentum to spin herself around, hopefully dragging Eiji off his feet long enough for her to send him sailing head-first back toward the trees.
Either way, she's only on her feet for a few moments longer. She takes a few faltering steps toward wherever Eiji's final position is, then finally collapses forward onto the ground.

COMBATSYS: Hinako can no longer fight.

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Eiji             0/-------/------=|


COMBATSYS: Hinako successfully hits Eiji with Gasshou Hineri.

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Eiji             0/-------/---====|


A valiant effort from the girl and perhaps for the first time in a long while Eiji makes a mistake of thinking the girl is truely down and he lets his guard down. That is why there is no tricks to get away this time around. Of course it is hard to discern if he really is surprised. There is only a slight creasing of his brow when he finds himself headlocked and tossed aside. Once again he feels himself slam against a tree after being released and he slumps over for a moment. Of course she may have almost fed him his words there is still one problem. He gets up when all is said and done.
He looks to the officials and he gets a nod from them that this match is over and he slowly stalks back over towards the fallen fighter and he crouches over her while whipping out a kunai. "Come after me once you learn to fight properly, girl." he tells her as he uses the kunai to cut off a lock of the girl's hair and he tucks it and the kunai back in the belt of his outfit and he turns about to leave. There is no reason to linger.

COMBATSYS: Eiji has ended the fight here.

Log created by Eiji, and last modified on 20:01:28 12/10/2005.