Description: This is just how Imawano men show their love. Bonus mocking of all other ninjas in the span of three poses.
Man, were the teachers on his back.
Really, you'd think at Taiyo the faculty would be okay with people taking time off to train in the wilds of Japan, wrestling bears and eating canned curry like in that one ep of Ranma. But no! You saunter back onto campus and the first thing the principal does is breathe down your neck about college and entrance exams and oh yeah, YOU MADE YOUR MOTHER WORRY, you jerk. And that's how they got Batsu for sure. Because Batsu loves his momma and making her cry is bad.
Of course Shizuku never cried a single tear and said that just to motivate her son, because she is the bride of an Imawano ninja and knows how to do this stuff.
Thus it's well into the afternoon by the time Batsu is done with cleaning, detention, supplementary lessons, and all the other sorts of miscellaneous nonsense that's required of someone who went AWOL all that time. The afternoon sky is bright orange fading to dark blue on the horizon: night's coming. Time for Batsu to hurry home, which he is sort of doing. The Burning Justice Devotee is in fact strolling down the Taiyo main walkway toward the gates at a leisurely pace, grumbling. Training takes time, people. And when is trigonometry ever going to be useful to a nonsense ninja? Never! Trig is for wuss ninjas like the Ryouhara.
Yeah, I said it.
It is true. Trig is for losers like Kurow.
However, there is one thing more important that Batsu is forgetting.
He made his MOTHER (i.e., wife of a huge bigass doting bear) CRY
Nevermind that the bear is also fully aware of Shizuku's machinations, that is irrelevant to what happens next, namely, an unholy howl of "BAAAAAAATSUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!" that shatters the peaceful aura of Taiyo's courtyard, followed shortly by its tiles breaking under the strain of almost three hundred pounds of /person/ smashing into it at high speed.
It is Raizo Imawano, dressed in his usual business attire, and with his claws bared and his monocle glinting in the sun. "I HAVE YOU NOW!"
And then he leaps right the hell at Batsu with his fist reared back!
COMBATSYS: Raizo has started a fight here.
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Raizo 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Batsu has joined the fight here.
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Batsu 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Raizo
COMBATSYS: Batsu interrupts Quick Punch from Raizo with Medium Punch.
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Batsu 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Raizo
A SHARK'S NOSE IS ITS WEAK POINT. A SHARK'S NOSE IS ITS WEAK POINT.
You can see that thought behind Batsu's eyes like a newsticker as he turns toward the noise of his father entering the stage of history like a meteorite strike. Yes... he'd been waiting for this. This inevitable clash of forces! His damned meddling father who is somehow a giant massive bear ninja.
Oh, fuck. He's a bear, not a shark!
But prepared means that Batsu is ALREADY MOVING when his father goes right for his face with those claws, abandoning his bookbag and dashing right at his father in return. That's right, folks: they smell fear. His father's punch slams against his cheek, but it doesn't stop the Batsu Train, oh no. Instead, the Imawano master's son turns and cocks one fist, then rams it right at his father's jaw. If this were an anime, there'd be letterboxing and the sound of a koto in the background.
"SHUT UP OLD MAN!" Batsu bellows. "THERE ARE PEOPLE TRYING TO STUDY HERE!"
A Random Student Observer, awed, stammers, "C...Cross-counter!?"
Raizo grins around the fist in his jaw, Then leaps backward, setting himself in a more ready stance. "Good! I see your reflexes haven't DULLED any while you were consorting with hooligans!" He holds up one fist, clenching it tight. "Now stand still and let your father show how much he MISSED YOU!"
And then Raizo is running in again, this time with claws out, aiming a slash across his son's front.
COMBATSYS: Batsu blocks Raizo's Claw Stab.
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Batsu 0/-------/----===|==-----\-------\0 Raizo
Well, he was on a *training* journey after all. We went through this with the whole flashback montage, didn't we?
We didn't?
Cue the sepia-toned scenes of Batsu in the mountains! Dodging rolling boulders! Catching fish with his bare hands in a chilly mountain stream! Running up the steps of the Town Hall in Philadelphia! Picking up the lightsaber of Qui-Gon Jinn and finishing off Darth Hyo to climactic background music!
Damnit, he didn't do any of those things.
The claws rake across Batsu's already-harried uniform jacket, but better it than him, though that still looks like it stung some. "Have you considered," he says with a low growl, before turning and catapulting himself into the air at close range, his foot trailing blue energy as he makes an inverted crescent, looking to slam it into Raizo's shoulder, "THAT THE WAY YOU SHOW YOUR LOVE IS SERIOUSLY MESSED UP?!"
COMBATSYS: Batsu successfully hits Raizo with Crescent Star Kick.
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Batsu 0/-------/---====|====---\-------\0 Raizo
"You think so?" Raizo laughs, seeing the attack coming and dodging direclty into it.
Raizo emits something that sounds like actual pain as he tumbles away from his abusive son, but soon enough he rises again, still laughing. "What in this world isn't a mess, boy!?" he snorts, and then charges in again. "Nothing! Besides which, this is the way in which all Imawano show love for their boys! You'll see, someday! HAHAHHA!"
With a perilously close to unhinged cackle, Raizo plants his feet about a foot in front of Batsu, and drives his clawed fist forward towards the boy's belly, swinging his whole body behind the attack!
COMBATSYS: Raizo successfully hits Batsu with Roppu Zuki.
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Batsu 1/------=/=======|======-\-------\0 Raizo
Yeah that's right punk. Take that extremely overcommitted overblown attack that leaves Batsu entirely vulnerable when his father does the perfectly ingenious strategy of getting HIT BY IT.
Damn.
The younger Imawano is actually turning to tell Raizo how insane that sounds when he sees the claws incoming and, valiantly, attempts to leap out of the way. The Batsu-sized crater in one of the Taiyo courtyard walls that follows tells you exactly how well that works. But it's going to take more than crushing, punishing physical blows to put this scrapper down! You'll need two or three at least!
"No wonder Hyo is freaking insane!" Batsu shouts back as he emerges from the wreckage, then throws both arms forward, a burst of blue energy streaking across the grounds at his father. "AND HELL NO I AIN'T GONNA TREAT MY KIDS THIS WAY!"
You say that now, of course...
COMBATSYS: Batsu successfully hits Raizo with Guts Bullet.
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Batsu 1/------=/=======|=======\-------\1 Raizo
"Get up!" Raizo calls to his fallen son. "I know you're not /that/ weak!"
Oh. Well, that was unexpected.
Raizo dodges to one side to try and not get smashed full force by Batsu's Guts Bullet, but it fails - the projectile is faster than he remembered, and it catches him square in the belly, sending Raizo tumbling back, back, back...
He lands right next to a lovely young bystander. He squints upward, slowly rising, and turns to the young lady and explains, "I'm terribly sorry, miss, but I'm going to need to borrow you for a moment."
"...wh--!?"
This is, as ever, followed immediately by picking the young girl up in one hand, hefting her like a javelin, and saying, "BOY! CATCH!" before tossing the student downrange.
COMBATSYS: Batsu overcomes Large Thrown Object from Raizo with Maximum Guts Bullet.
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Batsu 0/-------/------=|=======\-------\1 Raizo
There's a moment of triumph as Batsu realizes he really has put one onto his father at last. Perhaps now the stupid old man will stop assaulting him like the damned Predator every time he goes missing for more than twenty minutes. "WHO ARE YOU CALLING WEAK, YOU OLD FOOL?!"
He emerges from the dust cloud JUST in time to see his father hurl a freshman at him.
What. The. Hell.
Right? So Darth Raizo is on one side of the trench and he's firing proton torpedoes at Batsu who's on the other side of the trench and he's using the targetting scanner. And then you can see Hayato's face appear in the upper right hand corner of the screen. "Trust your feelings, you idiot!" Yes. Trust your feelings! Do what comes naturally!
He turns and, swelling with an aura of azure power, turns and extends both hands at his father, firing off an even bigger burst of chi than before. "DON'T PUT TAIYO STUDENTS..."
Of course, this is when the thrown girl rebounds off Batsu's extended arms and tumbles off into the bushes, ruining his aim and weakening the attack. God damn it.
"...IN DANGER!"
COMBATSYS: Batsu successfully hits Raizo with Maximum Guts Bullet.
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Batsu 0/-------/------=|=======\==-----\1 Raizo
The Old Bastard watches his son's response with pride. "Good reaction! Excellent timing!" he jeers. "But you forgot one thing!"
"I AM YOUR FATHER!" Raizo thunders, charging STRAIGHT INTO the gigantic ball of chi. "AND IF YOU CAN'T holy mother of"
He does not, as he had been planning, roll right through that sphere of agony. He is slowed immensely by its coming, to the point that by the time he's on the far side, he is...not in good shape.
He's grinning though. "That hurt! You're getting better!"
And then he's COMING AGAIN, fist cocked back and ready to smash it right into Batsu's craw. "But I still have a few TRICKS!"
COMBATSYS: Raizo successfully hits Batsu with Strong Punch.
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Batsu 0/-------/---====|=======\===----\1 Raizo
"YOU'RE INSANE IS WHAT YOU Awhoa." Apparently some things do run in families, and the tendency to respond to big, slow hits by wading into them must have been passed down on the Y chromosome in the Imawano family. He COULD get out of the way, but... why? That would be silly. Instead you should use it to your advan--
WHAM.
That poor girl-projectile is just getting out of the bushes when Batsu rockets toward her through the air, knocked back by a bearjab to the mush. The two go tumbling past in a big Batsuball(tm) and roll to a stop in the bushes. For a moment, all is silent. Perhaps Raizo has brought this loving reunion to a tragic conclusion!
Yeah, whatever.
ERUPTING from the bushes, Batsu charges his father, tapping down, then up to LEAP into the air and, spinning with one foot extended, DRIVES at him with a powerful diving kick, that signature blue chi surrounding him like a corona, his voice echoing across the courtyard. "I HATE YOU SO MUCH RIIIIGHT NOOOOOOOOOOW!"
COMBATSYS: Raizo interrupts Maximum Shooting Star Kick from Batsu with Yasha Guruma.
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Raizo stands there, arms crossed. "Grow up and take it like a man!" he taunts. "A proper Imawano wouldn't even flinch from a hit like that! I know you've got some guts in you, show them to me!"
Nevermind that's where the deathrays came from, that's irrelevant.
What isn't is the incoming meteoric kick descending from heaven, and Raizo looks up, stares at it for a second, and...smirks.
"Too easy," he muses, and then bounds forward himself, TEARING into Batsu as his entire body sheathes itself in shining purple chi, the added force serving only to strengthen an already insane attack comprised of Raizo's whole body, leaping forward like a wrecking ball, and accompanied by Raizo's massive claws, ripping, slashing, and tearing.
He is kicked in the face. It doesn't really slow him down any.
That is a truly epic clash. Sadly, while Batsu has guts and drive, what he lacks is *plate mail*, and his father hits like a VW touring bus packed with angry bears. Although he does manage to land his blow, his father's counterstrike is enough to smack him out of the air like a pinball, soaring back toward the bushes he came from.
Thankfully some of the brighter Taiyo types have taken hold of the poor girl and led her off to the nurse's office. It's good to know what, scarred by this experience, she transfers to Justice and starts seeing a therapist. Woe betide the first time she's called to the headmaster's office there. Then the nightmares will begin.
Batsu meanwhile is lying on the ground, staring at the sky in a daze. The bear beat him. His uniform looks like hell and will have to be mended -- AGAIN -- by Shizuku, who will doubtless give Raizo the :| face later for that.
There's a rustling as the younger Imawano gets to his feet, one eye shut and bruised. "You want... guts?" he says, grinning ferally. The blue glow starts up again, Batsu's arms extended over his head. "I GOT PLENTY TO SPARE!" And then another of those massive blue fireballs tears across the space between Batsu and his father, though it's a little wobbly all things considered.
Either way, that's the last Batsu has, the Burning fighter collapsing to the ground in a heap afterwards.
With his middle finger pointed at Raizo.
Just sayin'.
COMBATSYS: Batsu can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Raizo endures Batsu's Maximum Guts Bullet.
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Raizo's recruitment methods are many and varied. Throwing people is but one of the many ways he adds to the Legions of Justice!
The Old Man spins in midair, landing neatly on his feet as Batsu lands on his back. But no -- he's rising, and Raizo arches an eyebrow in his direction. "Oh hoh? Still got something in you, eh?" he laughs, and then emits a heartfelt "HA HA HA HA!" as Batsu unleashes the full force of his Maximum Guts Bullet upon him. "So that's what you call guts, eh!? Then...let me show you MINE!"
And Raizo simply crosses his arms, taking the full force of the blast straight on, striding through it like a lesser man might wade through tall waters.
Finally, the burning passes, and Raizo is there - sizzling, scorched, but not at all defeated. He gives a crazed grin, and then looks over in the direction of his fallen son.
"...that's my boy," he chuckles, moving to cart Batsu's corpse to the nurse.
Log created on 16:55:13 12/19/2007 by Batsu, and last modified on 23:56:15 12/19/2007.