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After some thought, Yurika Kirishima decided it's probably a good idea to evaluate Sada personally before sending her out to try and trace the thief and general pain-in-the-butt Ayame. She hadn't been keeping close tabs on the Glee Club member, and.. Well, she's forced to realize that it simply isn't going to do her any good to keep things that way. She'll have to interact with her and just deal with it to get the results she wants.
So what does that mean? It means that Yurika's going to fight her fellow Council member, and the invitation is given as over-appropriate as always; a pink envelope with the invitation written in cursive: Please meet me in the forest near Justice High, at co-ordinates xx and yy. It is time for an evaluation.'.
Normally this setting is a precious spot, she'd been beaten up by Kurow here a countless number of times. But in order for her to really pour on her talent, she needs to be someplace void of a large crowd of people. She currently stands at the appointed location, within the bare trees of winter, in a very Kurow-esque outfit. Quite frankly it looks like she did take her brothers uniform and put it on herself, her hair dragged up into a big, Belldandy-like ponytail with longer locks at either side of her face. Her back pressed to a tree and eyes closed, it wouldn't seem she had been waiting very long.
Sada was pleased at the invitation; part of the thrill, of course, is that entire allure of a secret meeting. What might go on at a secret meeting? Something vigorous perhaps, something with meaning, something that could transform her very life.
It's mostly nonsense, of course, but Sada doesn't have a whole lot of friends outside of the singing club, partly because she can be kind of a bitch. She has the winter jacket on over her uniform as she approaches the designated area. Yurika might well note that she is no longer doing up her hair, ever since the fiasco at the Suiryuu. Perhaps the water damage kept her from curling it once more. Perhaps she's trying to show off Japanese spirit by rejecting Western frippy, in which case "wa-loli" may need to be invoked.
Once she slips into the clearing, she turns towards Yurika - who stands out, even in the winter - and bows deeply to her, setting her weapon case near her feet. "You summoned me," she says, breath curling like smoke from her lips as she straightens. "I hope I have not kept you waiting long."
The hair is noted. If she actually -cares- or not is another story entirely. A small smile is given to Sada when she arrives, she easing off of the tree to give her companion a small shake of her head. "Not very long at all, I'm pleased that you could make it."
Actually, no she's not entirely.
"Forgive my directness, but I would like to get to the point rather quickly. I have not seen you in battle for some time, therefore I've decided it's my duty to prepare you for the mission I've provided you not long ago.." Yurika raises a hand to her cheek, elbow propped into her palm while she glances upward thoughtfully. She's somewhat sure that wrapped up the situation nicely. "She appears to be well versed in various weaponry. While I personally am not at that level, I believe the strength behind my art should be about equivilent to her skill. And so.."
The young musician smiles a bit more brightly as she looks back to Sada. "Victory is not imporatant, here. Keeping up with me and making correct decisions, however, is."
Battle! Sada hasn't indulged in it in a while, despite keeping up with her exercises. She nods sternly once at Yurika's statement, and sets the case down, unfastening the latches and drawing out the chain weapon with a soft tinkling clatter.
"I don't mind that you're direct," she continues, while raising up the chain and giving it a few experimental, warming-up twirls. "It's very flattering. I never thought I would have - Oh, but anyway, that's just me being silly." She bows slightly at the waist, bringing the chain to rest. "Please forgive me."
She straightens, then, shifting one foot back and smiling ahead at Yurika. "I'm ready whenever you are!" And with that, she draws one hand back around the chain, making the weighted end rattle slightly. Perhaps she wants to make Yurika move. Perhaps she wants to show her respect by allowing the other woman to take the initative. Perhaps she -
Then the chain whips forwards abruptly, aimed at Yurika's calves to wrap around her and yank her off her feet. Perhaps Sada is simply sneaky.
COMBATSYS: Sada has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Yurika has joined the fight here.
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Sada 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Yurika
COMBATSYS: Sada successfully hits Yurika with Snare Whip.
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Sada 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Yurika
Yurika herself has been keeping up with her own training, though since Kurow had been rather sparse as of late.. She hadn't had a chance to push herself. So in her opinion, her match against Sada perhaps won't encourage her to bring out her full potential. Egotistical? Perhaps, but she's here to push Sada's limits, not grind her into coffee beans.
Yurika's dark eyes look to her opponents weapon, and Sada may notice that the musicians violin is actually nowhere in sight. Curious. Somehow, though, Yurika is caught off-guard. The clinking of the chain is actually a dead give-away to its movement, even subtle sounds are musical in their own way. But hearing and moving are two different things! She's got her leg caught, and with a yelp, Sada quite certainly captures Yurika's leg and sends her hitting the hard ground back first that pushes a bit of air out of her. A simple kick of her leg gets her free, however, and she's back up and whisking toward her schoolmate. "Good." Her hand slashes down diagonally and if the blow connects, there's a ring that fills the air. That would be because she is attempting to slam the flat of a silver, sharpened tuning fork right against the forehead of her opponent.
COMBATSYS: Sada dodges Yurika's Medium Strike.
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Sada 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Yurika
A tuning fork!? Sada's eyes widen at that glimmer of light, and she ducks down suddenly low even as one arm yanks that chain back after Yurika slips free, letting it go slack and sling to the side, whizzing through the air as if on its own accord. While it's spinning, Sada says, "I'm sorry," which is perhaps not a terribly sensible thing to do...
Until she crab-walks a step forward and lets her free arm snap out, aiming to grasp Yurika's stockinged leg between her upper arm and side, the other then moving quickly down to grasp at her ankle. This would be very odd indeed, if she didn't then immediately try to wrench it backwards with brutal, painful force! Which, naturally, is understandable in a fight.
If undignified.
COMBATSYS: Yurika dodges Sada's Fighting Like A Girl.
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Sada 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Yurika
"Hmn.." Yurika isn't entirely sure what Sada is apologizing for, but she doesn't make a big deal of it either way. It has been a long time since she had matched-up with Sada and has forgotten a lot of the girls tricks; a bit uncharacteristic of her but considering what she thinks of the girl, maybe not. Her neutral expression doesn't shift, even as Sada strikes back a little slower this time.
Is Sada targeting working on Yurika's leg? She still feels a slight buzz from the previous attack, but she isn't handicapped yet, as seen when the leg is reached for, the demi-ninja is hopping into the air, and springs off of the others shoulders in a graceful backflip to land in a crouch. ".. My apologies." she offers.
Yurika is then back on Sada's case, the moment they're face to face, Yurika swipes her sharpened tuning forks to catch the collar of Sada's winter jacket, and if she can do that, jerks violently to the side to swing the girl.. Right at a nearby tree.
COMBATSYS: Sada dodges Yurika's Quick Throw.
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Sada 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Yurika
This time, Sada throws herself to the side, rolling along the cold ground to avoid being grasped by those tuning forks! Maybe she's just a slippery devil. Certainly some kind of a devil, eh, Yurika? She doesn't lose control, though, and rises into a one-kneed crouch as she tightens her grasp on the kama. "Heh," she says. "We should stop apologizing."
She then lives up to her own words! She takes another of those curiously crablike steps forwards, feet dragging along the ground, before springing up with a twisting rising kick which aims to strike Yurika in the shoulder and send her staggering back! Her long skirt rises as she does so, some of it telescoping down as she turns out of her kick, keeping her improvised return to the beginning state from being terribly smooth. Uh oh.
COMBATSYS: Yurika dodges Sada's Heavy Kick.
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Sada 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Yurika
"Agreed," Yurika replies. She can't help but smile slightly to the 'advice' as well. It almost, for a split second, brings amusement to the musician. But that expression falls back to it's neutral state once her opponent is back on the attack. It's an odd attack, there's certainly a lot of oomph behind it, but easily telegraphed by her dark eyes. There's nothing fancy, Yurika simply drops to a crouch, letting the kick swing a ways over her head, yet cringing as if it did hit somehow. Did she get lucky?
It's a secret. Her counter attack is just as simple, and hopefully quick at that. Yurika leaps back off of her heels to make some distance between the pair. But amidst her evasion, she whips her arm out horizontally, a glint of silver light the only sign that her humming tuning fork is racing toward Sada's upper chest. Don't be fooled. The fact it's humming means it could hurt.
COMBATSYS: Yurika successfully hits Sada with Thrown Object.
-* CRITICAL HIT! *-
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Sada 0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0 Yurika
Fast, humming - Sada shifts to leap out of the way! And ends up leaning right into it. The tuning fork buries itself partially into her left breast and seems to explode back outwards, sending Sada flying back with a sharp, choked off shout of discomfort! She lands on the ground, flat on her back, and gasps for breath for a moment, eyes bugging out. That, it seems, seriously stung.
She staggers back up, then, saying as she does, "You're - vibrating it with your, your, uh," what is it called again? She isn't sure. She swings her chain around again, the weighted end taking a long looping path through the air as she swings it like a conventional sort of whip. However, the muscles on that side of her body are a little pained, and so the strike lacks true vicious force! At the same time, it's five kilograms of lead in a thin leather wrapping on the end of a chain.
COMBATSYS: Yurika interrupts Medium Strike from Sada with Tragic Serenade.
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Sada 0/-------/=======|====---\-------\0 Yurika
There was more umph behind that attack than Yurika originally planned but, she won't let that be public knowledge! Yurika's lips purse slightly, looking almost thoughtful, and then smiles to her opponent, ".. The act itself is nothing special, I clinked them togeather.." Sada just simply didn't see when she did it. "However through that vibration I was able to focus my chi into it."
And that is why she is dangerous with about any musical instrument a person can think of; it's very handy. There's more where they came from however, they're slipped into her belt, as seen when she withdraws two more from her sides and waits for Sada to approach. She seems to 'know' that Sada is weakened, and seek to take full advantage of it. Her arms swings forth, the two prongs crashing togeather with a deep, wine-glass like hum, that causes the air in front of her to distort and twist her image, while blasting forward the moment the chain is swung dangerously at her. Needless to say this 'defense' softens the weapons contact against her, but she's definatly feeling the sting on her shoulder. Well, at least it wasn't her leg. "I'm still not used to your weapon, it's an unusual little tool." she confesses with a wince.
"Ugh," Sada says after that sound wave hits her.
DURING it, of course, she felt far worse. She could hear her skeleton rattling inside of her body! It was creepy! But then, she is in large part water, and that is a good medium for the transmission of sound waves. She thinks she might have lost a filling in one tooth. She isn't sure, though, even as she staggers back from that humming noise and that wave of palpable sound that seemed to dissipate into her body like a hammer hitting a gong.
"The kusarigama?" she says, staggering back and trying to ignore the pain in her arm as she gasps for breath between words. "Yes - it's unusual - it's best in these sorts of spaces. Every swordsman who defeated it only did so - because he was able to find a place - where they couldn't find their way to use the power..."
She shakes her head once, and then crouches down a bit, one leg sliding back to prop herself as she raises the kama up, inclined like a mantis' claw. "I could show you," she offers, a bit less pantingly. "But, I'm sure you've seen the technique in action..."
COMBATSYS: Sada focuses on her next action.
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Sada 0/-------/=======|====---\-------\0 Yurika
Yurika crosses her arms at the waist, her hips swaying slightly in a rather unusual battle stance of sorts. Does she feel like getting her dance on?? Of course not, she's actually observing Sada after being struck by her technique. It certainly looked painful, but there's no telling if Sada is simply overselling or not. "Ah yes.. Well, I probably have, but this isn't a test of my curiosity. You know, I have heard that not long ago,"
Yurika settles back, taking in the last of the resonating sound. Her eyes, however, remain locked on her opponents. "That Miu Kurosaki and Ayame had gotten into a fight in school halls not long ago.. Ayame had ended up making a lot of collateral damage. Repairable, of course, but extremely annoying. I want to stress the importance of taking her down; and possibly capturing her."
COMBATSYS: Yurika gathers her will.
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"Yes," Sada says, that sound seeming to ring in her ears. Augh, she thinks, this makes it so hard to hold a conversation. Why can't Yurika's abilities be simpler? Either way, though, she tells herself, enough lollygagging. Show your fighting spirit!
There is what may seem like a momentary flash around her hands, and she suddenly jerks the chain forwards, sending the kusari flying at Yurika without a great deal of warning. The pitched-forwards weight jerks to the side at the last moment, to try to wrap around her arms and yank her down; Sada herself steps to the side, saying as she does, "Are we going to take her prisoner?" She sounds interested at the prospect, even if it is blatantly illegal. But the law is useless in a situation like this!!
COMBATSYS: Yurika blocks Sada's Odani Foundation Art.
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Sada 0/-------/=======|=======\=------\1 Yurika
Yurika silently berates herself. What is she doing just standing around? She should be utilizing her speed here to test Sada, not go out of her way to try and pound the girl into the ground... As much as she'd love to do that. She slowly shakes the hostility out of her, and focuses back on the test at hand. She's going to need to cut down on her tricks and try to be more like the woman in question. "To be honest, I'm not entirely certain. I will definatly question her but if we end up learning something in which making her a prisoner benefits us..."
"Then so be it." She's not entirely sure what she's dealing with here.. The weapon comes flying forward, which she manages to capture about her arms. Oops, that was intended. The sudden jerk catches her off-guard and yet she nimbly rolls with the throw, back on her feet with her arms free after the tumble. Now she rushes forward, and swipes low, intending to strike the flat of her weapon against the side of Sada's kneecap. It's a swift, but hopefully effective attack.
COMBATSYS: Sada counters Weapon Jab from Yurika with Niitaka Yama Nobore.
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Sada doesn't move too much in response. However, the tip of the kama gleams as she swings it in a sudden swift arc, that sideways-slicing/stab caught for a moment in the hook of the blunted metal as Sada looks down with a faint smile. "Of course," she says, before completing the maneuver by twisting sharply around, using that hook on Yurika to yank her forward and throw her down towards the ground!
She takes two quick steps back afterwards. "Where would we keep her?" she asks. "We could claim she's been let into the hospital... or, that the yakuza stole her." That's useful, she thinks, they WOULD steal strange women for working in pachinko parlors and such things.
Another yelp. This is from Sada's rather amazing evasive maneuver that leaves the musician slamming onto the ground and her legs kick up slightly when she slides. Luckily black doesn't stain visably very easily. Her cheeks pinken slightly as she gets to her feet, and she looks over her shoulder to her opponent. "What are you babbling about?" Yurika asks. "I think your imagination is getting a little out of control. No one is going to know where she is unless she has some sort of bug on her.. And seeing as she's just a common thief, I find that highly doubtful."
Yurika taps her forks togeather as she rushes toward Sada again, and this time she moves quick enough to try to get behind Sada and press the vibrating fork to her neck. It settles for a moment, then she pulls back with such force it'd send the girl twirling into the air until she crashes to the ground, with a sudden loss of breath.
COMBATSYS: Sada counters Melancholy Pavane from Yurika with Cut Trapped Grain.
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"I've never had to take a captive before," Sada protests, "I don't -" Then Yurika moves. Sada's eyes go wide, seeming to gleam for a moment when that rush comes at her, moving behind her with a flutter of black cloth. It is one of those rare moments of absolute clarity, and Sada doesn't know what sets them off. She turns, throwing herself to the side. She feels like she's falling --
The chain whips around with such speed that the end of it cracks, the chain hitting Yurika's stretched out arm with sufficent force to wrap around three times, the weight slapping into her upper arm with an audible thump that hurts all on its own! This is, however, only the beginning; the tip of the kama is slammed forwards repeatedly, blurring slightly with rapid momentum as it's aimed at Yurika's midsection, Sada finishing with a sudden whirl to the side, yanking the chain at last and snapping it with a complex wrist motion, yanking it free and -- grinning.
"Hah!" she says. "I think I'm starting to get it! I /have/ been out of action for too long..."
Yurika chuckles lightly, ".. And you think I have?" Well. She sort of has. But that was besides the point. She was certain she had Sada where she wanted her, though, but her eyes widen in suprise when her arm is captured within the chains. And it's kind of a blurr after that, Sada's unusual assualt manages to escape even Yurika's eyes that send her twisting, twirling and beaten, an intense sting in her midsection when it's all said and done; she lain flat on her back and staring up at the sky.
.. She has no idea what just happened. The musician sits up as she holds her side with a cringe. ".. Yes, well. It's good that we're making progress." She's going to be feeling that for a while that much is for sure. Yurika is back up, rubs the back of her neck lightly, and without hesistance closes in on Sada once more. Her intent here now is to strike with a much simpler technique; ignoring her weapons for now she sweeps her arm as if going for a backhand strike. However with a sudden shift of weight, she instead twirls and lashes her leg upward, heel-first, toward the Glee club members neck in a roundhouse motion!
COMBATSYS: Sada dodges Yurika's Light Kick.
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Yurika's feint seems transparant to Sada, who has may perhaps seized the legendary 'high ground' for now. She leans back sharply to the side, twisting the kusari around in a looping spiral as she does so, hips working as she gyrates, legs not even moving as she avoids the attack!
She then sees the perfect opening and her body is moving to take it before she can even think, twisting the kama around and slamming the shaft up in a sharp jab up towards Yurika's midsection while she's still completing the kick. Of course, she realizes a moment later what she's doing, which makes her take a quick step back - though she doesn't burst out into apology, which may be to cover her tracks. Then again, with that vaguely shark-like grin...
"So, do you think I'll be able to handle her?" she asks, twisting the kusari around in a completely unneccessary (but rather neat-looking) whirl at her side.
COMBATSYS: Sada successfully hits Yurika with Medium Strike.
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Such an unusual weapon, Yurika didn't have trouble reading it before, but now she's definatly having a difficult time doing so. She's definatly noticed the shift in attitude from the fighter, however. There is a slight stagger with her missed strike, and she's not in the best position, somehow, to get out of the way of the first strike, the musician doubling over slightly before her foot touches the ground.
The musician cringes slightly, and then gives the girl a slight nod of her head. "I.. Am fairly certain so. Keep in mind that she doesn't fight in the same manner I do." Her thumbs touch the handles of her weapons of choice, but then she relaxes, her eyes closed as she crosses those arms. "But I believe you should do well based on what I've seen. There isn't much point in continuing, with that said."
COMBATSYS: Yurika takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Yurika has left the fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Sada has ended the fight here.
Log created on 19:20:43 02/27/2008 by Sada, and last modified on 01:46:40 02/29/2008.