Description: You will be baked, and then there will be cake.
Things are still fairly quite at Taiyo for the summer, although some of the many atheletes in the school have already taken back to the campus to get into proper shape for when things really get started.
This doesn't quite apply to Hinata, however, as the girl leans against the railing running along the roof top and watches the other students go about their practices across the campus. For her it's simply nice to be back at the school that she loves after having been on vacation for so long... and sometimes it's nice to be somewhere quiet and alone.
The door to the stairwell creaking loudly as it swings open; a handsome young man dressed in full lacrosse gear steps through the doorway and regards the girl observing the people below. "Excuse me, are you alright up here?" the boy asks as he unclips the visorless modern hockey-style helmet he is wearing and pulls it off of his head. "I saw someone up here when we were practicing and thought I'd check and see if everything was okay," he informs her with a friendly smile; running his fingers through his short, sweat drenched hair. "I'm not interrupting anything, am I?"
The girl seems far from out of it, spinning on one heel at the first sound of any noise, and while not exactly dropping into a fight stance, certainly looked ready should it be a friendly ambush. It should be quite apparent to anyone who's actually spent any time in Taiyo who she is at a moment's glance, especially as her face breaks into her trademark smile, wide and full of SUNSHINE POWER! "Oh no, I wasn't doing anything, I just felt like watching everyone practice."
"Oh, miss Wakaba," Ichiro says with a smile as he recognizes his classmate. "I'm not sure if you remember me, my name is Ichiro Oe, and I'm the captain of the lacrosse team. I don't usually socialize with many people outside of my teammates very much, but that's something I'm working on changing." Letting the door close behind him, Ichiro rests the haft of his lacrosse stick, more formally known as a crosse, on his shoulder and takes a couple casual steps towards the railing Hinata is standing next to, though he makes sure to keep a respectable distance from the girl. "Well, this is a good place to do it," Ichiro says as he before pausing slightly and more than a bit awkwardly. "Uh... a good place to watch people practice I mean," he clarifies. "I love this time of year," he slightly changes the subject. "All of the teams coming together once again. It's so exciting."
Hinata's face brightens a bit with recognition, pretty much at least knowing of anyone in the entire school who had anything to do with the athletic world. "Oh, now I remember you! You're one of the only captains who hasn't asked me to help them out in a match. Ohayou, Ichiro!" As she says this, she closes her eyes, gives a wide smile and spreads her index and middle fingers out into a 'V.' She hardly even seems to notice Ichiro's awkward moment, perhaps not even getting that the statement could be taken any other way. "Yep, it's great up here. It's usually quiet and you can see pretty much everything from up here." She spins around once excitedly before hopping up and down on one foot a few times, "And I can't wait for school to start back up, summer's been so boring, especially going on vacation out in the middle of nowhere where there was nobody to fight."
Grinning and running his hand through his hair once more as Hinata recognizes him, Ichiro chuckles softly. "I've only just started fighting about a month ago, actually," Ichiro explains, "I didn't think it'd be as fun as playing lacrosse at first, but I've been having a lot of fun," he adds with a smile. "And I know what you mean about going on vacation. My parents and I went to Monte Carlo for vacation. It was so boring. I don't like going that long without practicing."
There's a small shrug of the girl's shoulders, "Well I still made sure to practice, it was just that I had to practice against trees and bees and bears and stuff. It's not nearly as fun as a real fight, you know?" It's anyone's guess whether this is true or not, but given her overly enthusiastic nature regarding fighting, it wouldn't be too unlikely for her to go stir-crazy and take on all of nature. She'd probably smell better than Ryu after doing it, though.
"So you like to fight, too? Well I haven't gotten too much chance to do it lately, so let's go!" She pulls herself up into her ready position, bouncing back and forth.
COMBATSYS: Hinata has started a fight here.
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Hinata 0/-------/-------|
"Uh-" Ichiro stutters slightly, taken aback for a moment by Hinata's zeal. "-Sure!" he agrees after his moment's pause. "Yeah, that'd be fun. I'm sure you could teach me a thing or two," he says with a friendly wink as he reaches into the back pocket of his mesh athletic shorts and pulls out a plain white rubber ball that's a little smaller than a baseball. Bouncing the ball on the roof a couple of times, Ichiro smoothly catches the ball in the net of his crosse and begins to spin it around the pocket casually. "Let's do it! ...uhh, let's fight I mean... I'll try to keep up!" he recovers once more with a grin.
COMBATSYS: Ichiro has joined the fight here.
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Hinata 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Ichiro
Hinata doesn't seem to waste any time at all, quickly dashing the distance across the rooftop as soon as Ichiro's pulled himself into a ready position, "Here we go!" Immediately she ties to plant her hands on his shoulders, putting all of her weight on his top half in an attempt to bend him in half before stomping her feet down on the back of his head and launching herself over to his other side.
COMBATSYS: Ichiro blocks Hinata's Leap Frog Kick.
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Hinata 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Ichiro
"Huh?" Ichiro asks as Hinata puts her hands on his shoulder pads and attempts to push his shoulders down. Damn. Forgot to put his helmet back on. This could hurt. Throwing his gloved hands over his head, Ichiro manages to deflect the brunt of the head stomp with his padded gloves. "Close one..." he mutters to himself as he attempts to grab a hold of Hinata's legs before she's able to spring off of him. Blushing slightly at the prospect of such contact should he be successful, Ichiro will then attempt to swing the girl by her legs and toss her on the surface of the roof. Why do all of these girls insist on fighting in skirts? Keeping your focus is hard enough without having to deal with that.
COMBATSYS: Hinata dodges Ichiro's Strong Throw.
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Hinata 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Ichiro
It's not Hinata's fault that the school uniform for girls makes them wear a skirt. Maybe her's is a little shorter than most, but it's purely for movement purposes. Of course, this doesn't really come into play much, as Ichiro's hesitation and impure thoughts leave her enough time to roll to safety on the rooftop. She spins around in a flash, a wide grin on her face. "That was a great block, but you need to be a little faster on the strike!"
As if to give example, Hinata suddenly rushes forward, hands cupped to her side, held around a spark of brilliant blue chi, slowly growing until she thrusts her hands forward, sending the now soccer ball-sized chi flying right at Ichiro, blossoming outward into a magnificent sunflower as it comes into striking range.
COMBATSYS: Ichiro blocks Hinata's Kikou Shoutei.
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Hinata 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Ichiro
"Whoah!" Ichiro gasps as the ball of chi flies towards him. Crossing his arms in front of his face, Ichiro lets the flower-shaped blast wash over his padded gloves and shoulder pads, singeing his practice jersey and causing his wet hair to steam slightly. "My helmet... I knew I was forgetting something!" he exclaims as he dives to the side and scoops up the piece of protective gear. Cramming the helmet onto his head, Ichiro lets the chinstrap dangle free as he rises to his feet and gives the lacrosse ball in the net of his crosse a soft toss into the air before re-catching it in the pocket. "That was pretty cool, Hinata!" Ichiro says with a wide grin. "Time for me to take a shot!" he says as the pocket of his lacrosse stick suddenly bursts with golden energy. "BOUNCE SHOT!" he intones happily before flinging the rubber ball against the surface of the room, bouncing the chi-imbued ball and sending it flying up towards the girl's midsection.
COMBATSYS: Hinata dodges Ichiro's Bounce Shot.
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Hinata 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Ichiro
In his attempt to provide himself with proper protective equipment, Ichiro gives Hinata plenty of time to ready herself for the oncoming assault. As the ball goes flying, Hinata simply hops to the side with a wide grin on her face. So far there's not been a clean hit on either side's part, but she aims to change that. "Still not fast enough, you gotta try harder if you want to knock me down!" Once more dashing across the rooftop toward her opponent, this time she hops up into the air as she gets close, extending her leg, sheathed in buring chi, and starts to bring it around a few times into a short hurricane kick.
COMBATSYS: Ichiro interrupts Enbukyaku from Hinata with Cross Check.
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Hinata 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Ichiro
"Not fast enough?" Ichiro asks with a wolfish grin as his eyes glint dangerously. "How about this?!" he asks as Hinata flies toward him. Grabbing the shaft of his crosse in both hands, Ichiro lunges towards the kicking girl and slams the stick solidly into her jaw, knocking her out of the air as the kick glances off of his shoulder.
The strike ends up sending her flying, making skipping bounces across the roof top until she ends up colliding with the guard rail and actually denting it outward. That was a hell of a hit. However, despite the brutal strike, she manages to push herself up with a wide smile on her face, "Wow, that was a lot better. That's gonna hurt tomorrow!"
Of course, it would take more than just that to keep the Sunshine Girl of Taiyo High down, and in a flash she's racing across the roof top, launching herself into the air once again. This time however, she simply fully extends her leg as she tries to land a flying kick right to his face.
COMBATSYS: Ichiro interrupts Strong Kick from Hinata with Large Thrown Object.
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Hinata 0/-------/=======|=------\-------\0 Ichiro
His eyes darting to the ground as the rubber lacrosse ball he threw earlier rolls towards him, Ichiro smirks happily and lightly scoops it up into the net of his crosse before cocking it back over his shoulder. "I'm just glad I can keep up," he replies as the schoolgirl dashes towards him. Quickly spinning around a couple of times as she leaps towards him, Ichiro lets the ball in his net rocket towards Hinata, though this time he didn't bother to charge it with energy. The ball strikes the girl solidly, but it's not enough to keep her from crashing into him and send him skidding across the roof on the back of his shoulder pads.
Alright, so running wildly across the rooftop before launching an attack is a bad idea. At least this time she doesn't hit the guard rail, simply finding herself slowed down enough that she comes crashing down in front of the lacrosse captain. "You're doing better than you were before, so I guess I'll have to try harder, too!" This time she finds herself attempting to dart down between Ichiro's legs without even pulling herself up off the ground, popping back up on the other side and then ensnare him around his waist before attempting to slam his head right into the roof with a rather bare-bones german suplex.
COMBATSYS: Ichiro dodges Hinata's Strong Throw.
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Hinata 0/-------/=======|=------\-------\0 Ichiro
Though he's pretty new at fighting, it doesn't take much experience to know that letting Hinata behind him would likely be a painful mistake. Spinning on the ball of his right foot, Ichiro attempts to spin around the side of his sparring partner and slam his knee sharply into her side before she's able to grab him.
COMBATSYS: Hinata dodges Ichiro's Light Kick.
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Hinata 0/-------/=======|=------\-------\0 Ichiro
While her previous attempt doesn't do her much good, she recovers much more spectacularly than before, rolling out of the way of the kick and down to her knees, quick to launch herself up off of the ground into her own personal version of an old-time favorite. Her fist becomes sheathed with burning chi as she rises up off the ground into a spiralling uppercut aimed right for Ichiro's jaw, "SHOUYOUKEN!"
COMBATSYS: Ichiro blocks Hinata's Shouyouken.
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Hinata 0/-------/-======|===----\-------\0 Ichiro
"Wha-" Ichiro gasps as his knee is easily dodged and he soon finds a burning uppercut flying towards his face. Reacting more out of pure instinct than skill, Ichiro manages to stick one of his gloved hands in the way of the brutal uppercut. Grunting with pain as the chi washes over him, the lacrosse captain is sent skidding across the rooftop for a second time. "Nnnhh... that was impressive..." he says with a grin as he props himself up on his elbows. Pushing himself up to his feet, Ichiro twirls the lacrosse stick in his hands a few times as he waits for Hinata's next move.
COMBATSYS: Ichiro focuses on his next action.
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Hinata 0/-------/-======|===----\-------\0 Ichiro
"That was pretty good on your part, too, I figured I would have had you there." Of course even with all these compliments, it's still a fight, and Hinata doesn't aim on giving Ichiro much of a chance to collect himself. In a flash she lashes out with a rather simple kick aimed right for the side of his knee.
COMBATSYS: Ichiro interrupts Light Kick from Hinata with Cross Check.
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Hinata 1/------=/=======|===----\-------\0 Ichiro
Briefly dropping into an athletic crouch as Hinata's foot lashes out at him, Ichiro grips both ends of his lacrosse stick lunges towards the girl once more, slamming the ersatz weapon into her face yet again. He doesn't really feel very good about slamming the girl with such a brutal attack, but Hinata is a much more accomplished fighter than he is, and to hold back would be both foolish and insulting. "Beginner's luck," he says simply with a grin as a drop of sweat runs down the side of his face.
All these moves going bad on her is starting to get a little bit old, but it just shows she's got weakness in her offense. The second strike to the face sends her sprawling a few feet away and managaing to make a small cut near her right eye, but even with all of that she comes up smiling, "Don't just put it off as luck, that was a great shot, I didn't even see it coming." Of course now she seems to be pulling herself together a bit more, her stance somewhat tighter all before... in a flash she darts in on Ichiro, her fist flying in a furious combination of punches, moving with such speed at all but her fist at the end of each strike is a blur. With what seems like the last punch, however, she quickly drops to her knees and launchers herself up into the air once again, fist sheathed in flames of chi as she aims the spiralling uppercut right for his jaw once more.
COMBATSYS: Ichiro dodges Hinata's Hisshou Rengekiken EX.
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Hinata 0/-------/------=|===----\-------\0 Ichiro
His eyes going wide as Hinata races towards him, Ichiro back away from the girl as she sends the insanely fast combination of punches towards him. Nearly falling backwards as he backpedals, it's all young Oe to do to keep his balance as he tries to get out of the way of the attacks. "Uh oh..." he mutters as he feels his back bump into the railing that lines the edge of the rooftop. Dropping into a crouch as Hinata drops to her knees, it's all Ichiro can do to dive out of the way of the final uppercut and roll on his shoulder pads as he hits the rooftop. Panting heavily from exertion, Ichiro wipes at his sweat drenched brow with his forearm before rushing toward the girl and attempting to tackle her to the ground once she begins to recover from the missed uppercut.
COMBATSYS: Hinata dodges Ichiro's Quick Throw.
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Hinata 0/-------/------=|===----\-------\0 Ichiro
There's a rather impressed look gracing Hinata's face as Ichiro manages to completely avoid every bit of her furious assault, but there isn't much time to think on that as Ichiro comes charging in from the side. Finding her attack strategy lacking, she pulls everything she has back onto the defensive, rolling off to the side at the last moment to avoid the tackle.
Looking about ready to try to launch some sort of new offensive, suddenly her eyes go wide and a hand comes up to slap herself in the forehead, "Oh wow, I totally forget, I told Sakura I would meet her down at the cake shop. Sorry about running off like this!" With that she just drops her guard and darts toward the stairway, flinging it open and charging down the stairs...
COMBATSYS: Hinata has left the fight here.
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Ichiro 0/-------/----===|
Scratching his head in confusion as the energetic girl runs off, Ichiro just stands on the roof in silence for a few seconds before shrugging. "Hey, I like cake," Ichiro says to absolutely no one with a smirk. "Maybe next time I guess. Heh." Bending down to scoop up his lacrosse ball, the captain of the lacrosse team dribbles the ball off of the rooftop as he makes his way to the stairwell.
COMBATSYS: Ichiro has ended the fight here.
Log created on 23:46:02 08/10/2007 by Ichiro, and last modified on 13:25:28 12/28/2007.