What Shall Be Passed On: Tonya[Private, Tonya]

Sagumi had called Tonya away from her normal group studies a few moments ago and left to sit patiently in the observation room for her. He would eventually have one of these meetings with each of the students, but he figured he would start with the most experienced first before moving on to the lesser experienced pupils. The farther along he got Tonya, despite her feelings for him, the more likely he would find someone who could bear some burden of responsibility with training and mentoring her fellow students. Of course, Sagumi's pick would probably be considered unwise considering the Prailius family's less than encouraging track record as of later, but Sagumi had a strange faith in the girl that she would not let him down if he gave her the responsibility. Of course, she'd have to find a way to get over his less than orthodox teaching methods and less than appropriate behavior first, but he had faith in that too. Sagumi was sure that she would find her way to prove to be a useful asset to the school, she was too stubborn to accept anything less after all. Sagumi sighed lightly, setting his weapons against the wall before resting himself beside them. The school was already taking more out of him than he expected, but he felt like he was doing something worthwhile, he just had to hope that stayed the case for as long as possible. He would hate to not be making any impact at all.

Sagumi had decided that Tonya would inherit the Meotoude almost as soon as he accepted her to the school. She was a very aggressive fighter and the Meotoude served that purpose very well. He also knew that she, like most Prailius it would seem, had a penchant for the extravagant and useless. The Meotoude was anything but and focused on direct quick movements, aimed at working past defenses with as little effort as possible and with ever increasing speed. Something down to Earth and practical was exactly what the Prailius needed to mix-in with the extravagance. It was never good to be a predictable fighter and being able to mix the practical with the extravagant was a powerful tool. Sagumi could only hope that she would embrace that practicality instead of sticking adamantly to the flashy and self-destructive, she did have a penchant for stubbornness.

Sagumi’s eyes perked up to look at the new occupant of the observation room, his eyes bearing a different gleam than they did the day before, he was completely serious right now and it was not a look that had been common on his face in the past few years. Sagumi tentatively picked himself up to his feet, his eyes gently staring at her as he arched his back and stretched his shoulders, quicker than was probably healthy as he was eager to get this underway. Sagumi left his weapons propped up against the wall before slowly sliding his way toward Tonya, shaking out his arms in the process. He was finally beginning what was initially the point of his little school project. Sagumi stopped a good five or so feet from her and looked her in the eye for a few minutes, trying to piece together what was different about her today, something was wrong. He’d have to be a good boy for this training session then and refrain from doing anything less than ethical.

“The point of this school was first to gather like-minded martial artists together and then to pass on the specific martial arts styles that were developed in this training facility long ago. Your purpose is to inherit those styles and pass them on again when you feel the time is right. When you first got here you were organized in to two groups. The first group was Sei, Sei meaning silence. A Sei fighter’s goal is to focus on the logic and rationale in a fight and to bury his emotions and fight with his brain rather than his heart. Dou, the second group, is the opposite, being training to harness those emotions and use them as a weapon.”

Sagumi slowly raised his hands in front of him, both his elbows pointed toward the girl, his left at a twenty degree angle and his right at a sixty degree angle. Sagumi’s knees had a slight but steady bend to them that afforded a strong base for the man, keeping his core strong.

“The style that will be bequeathed to you is the Meoutoude. The Meotoude is a style focusing on attacking and defending with the hands at the same time. In most ancient fighting styles, you non-lead hand, or the hand of death, is usually cocked at your hip for a strike. Unfortunately this makes it difficult to defend and switch to attack if your guard hand is bypassed. As such, the Meotoude fights with both hands out and focuses on attacking in synchronicity with them. Striking and defending simultaneously.”

Sagumi nodded to her to embrace the same position as he took a few steps forward in to striking range, waiting for her to begin her education. The Meotoude would be good for Tonya as her upper body striking style as it was equally useful for attack and defending at the same time, giving her an ample amount of options from this position. Something Sagumi hoped she would embrace.

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Style Name: Meotoude
Style Type: Taijutsu/Weaponry
Rank: C-S
Style Weapon: Any
Description: One of the most practical methods to use one's body, it uses both hands for offense and defense. Meotude the opponent sees the front attack and in less than a second the second hand delivers an attack that makes them cough blood. This technique involves both hands to attack and defend. The front hand is used to fend off any incoming attacks, as well as to attack. The back hand is also used for defense, and it is used as the surprise attack. When utilizing this style, the speed of the practitioner’s attacks will increase by 5/10/15/25% with each successive blow, up to three, while the hands are out in front of the body and moving. This boost is only for successive attacks in a short time frame and in front of the user and any break in momentum will forfeit the enhanced speed.

Origin/History: Developed during Sagumi’s meditations in the Eye of Hiz, the basis for the style came from studying the ancient scrolls depicting the ancient style of Karate. Sagumi developed the Meotoude based on old karate techniques with his own flair.

Sagumi gave her a few moments to get herself situated with the stance. He wasn’t planning to spend too much time on it as she should get the basics down quickly with her training as is. The point of giving her this style was specifically so she could use it in conjunction with her feet. Sagumi knew she had strong legs, he noticed that sort of thing, don’t judge, but as great as having a multitude of kicks was, your arms were far more accurate and by extension, far more dangerous in the world of shinobi, where accuracy and speed really are everything…a few people notwithstanding. Sagumi tentatively took a few steps forward toward her, gently rotating his arms around the other, waiting the last few moments for her to be ready.

With quickness, Sagumi shot forward, two gentle steps before he closed the rest of the distance between them. For now, he’d demonstrate attacking with the style at its most basic roots. The Meoutoude was designed so that the hands could defend and attack and covering the front of the person’s body at the same time, which was what Sagumi was going to have Tonya learn, to both defend and attack with her arms while keeping her legs as her primary source of dishing out pain. Sagumi’s right fist shot forward from the center of his body toward Tonya’s sternum. A fraction of a second later, Sagumi’s other fist struck in the shadow of the first one, aiming for Tonya’s stomach as the third attack would come from Sagumi’s first hand, his wrist snapping up once it hit something and aiming for Tonya’s jaw. Each strike built momentum and each strike grew faster and faster. The sequence was to teach Tonya quick and short strikes that could be used deceptively while maintaining an adequate amount of power behind them, enough to jar an opponent enough to finish them with a more powerful kick.

Spoiler:

Style Name: Meotoude
Style Type: Taijutsu/Weaponry
Rank: C-S
Style Weapon: Any
Description: One of the most practical methods to use one's body, it uses both hands for offense and defense. Meotude the opponent sees the front attack and in less than a second the second hand delivers an attack that makes them cough blood. This technique involves both hands to attack and defend. The front hand is used to fend off any incoming attacks, as well as to attack. The back hand is also used for defense, and it is used as the surprise attack. When utilizing this style, the speed of the practitioner’s attacks will increase by 5/10/15/25% with each successive blow, up to three, while the hands are out in front of the body and moving. This boost is only for successive attacks in a short time frame and in front of the user and any break in momentum will forfeit the enhanced speed.

Origin/History: Developed during Sagumi’s meditations in the Eye of Hiz, the basis for the style came from studying the ancient scrolls depicting the ancient style of Karate. Sagumi developed the Meotoude based on old karate techniques with his own flair.

Sagumi recoiled slightly to let her regain her bearings, maintaining his form as the girl reeled slightly from his light tap to her chin. It was to be expected, you didn't need to hit the jaw with much force to really hurt your opponent, you simply needed enough force to jar the neck. Sagumi could have done it with a finger and gotten the same effect. The man patiently waited for her to signal that she was ready again before he started speaking to her, his voice the same soft and mentor-ish one that he used when he was explaining to the girl why he had enjoyed her rather nice chest. Of course, there were other ways he could have embarrassed her earlier, he didn't need to cop a feel, so his disciplinary groping sort of fell on its face.

"Tonya, you do not defend with the Meotoude, you attack their attack. Again."

Sagumi shot forward once again, another two gentle steps before he closed the rest of the distance between them. For now, he'd simply continue to mirror his previous movements, give Tonya an adequate chance to learn to attack his attack. Starting with one she already knew was a great way to start. Sagumi’s right fist shot forward from the center of his body toward Tonya’s sternum. A fraction of a second later, Sagumi’s other fist struck in the shadow of the first one, aiming for Tonya’s stomach as the third attack would come from Sagumi’s first hand, his wrist snapping up once it hit something and aiming for Tonya’s jaw. Each strike built momentum and each strike grew faster and faster.

"Good Tonya, keep your arms loose until the moment of impact and then tense them!"

As she struck the inside of his arm instead of waiting for his fist to come to her, the boy was indeed happy that she was getting the motion down. At the same time though, he really wasn't a fan of getting hit either and he wasn't planning to let her land any blows that easily. One of the most dangerous things for a martial artist is to think they're good when they aren't, they no longer seek to improve upon themselves and putting them firmly in to the reality of the situation was of grievous importance. As the girl slide around to the side of Sagumi's second strike, the Sumashu shifted his weight to his front foot and used it to pivot and turn his center line to keep it facing the girl as she moved.

His arm that had not been struck maintained its relaxed posture and as the girl's first strike came in, Sagumi quickly thrust the top of his wrist up, with his hand turned down, the harden bone striking up in to the girl's forearm and deflecting her initial strike away. As the second strike was inbound, Sagumi's weight shifted back in to an even stance as the same hand that blocked the girl's first attack would bounce down, his palm flipping up and the bottom of his wrist striking at the girl's other forearm, deflecting her second blow. Moving simultaneously with the deflection, Sagumi's initially blocked arm would come in quickly to palm strike the girl in the cheek, not hard enough to do any damage but enough to cause her to stumble a bit, the force generated from the boy returning to his center of gravity was used to speed up the palm strike.

Sagumi's eyes narrow at the girl's incoming strike, she still wasn't getting the point and he had two ways to teach it to her and he opted for the least painful one. When the girl struck with some much tension in her arms, she made them a fulcrum for Sagumi. It'd be so very easy for the Sumashuu to break her arm and she wouldn't have much to say about it. He could then proceed to strike her hard enough in the gut while she was blinded in pain to blow a hole through her, so instead he would go with the second option that should also yield some scientific data for the young Sumashuu. He had been looking for an excuse to test out his latest invention and the woman's troubles were a perfect antidote to sate his curiosity.

As she, vainly, tried to strike him back, Sagumi would quite suddenly no longer be there, instead leaving behind a hazy image of himself that provided no resistance as her hand went through his jaw. In the mean time, Sagumi had already jettisoned himself across the room and was working on a couple hidden latches in the wall. Sliding open the hidden doorway quickly before disappearing inside, Sagumi would return to sight pulling along a rather large contraption that he propped up against the wall. The device itself was a wooden platform the had a punching bag hanging down from an overhead beam connected to a large panel in the back. Coming from this panel were two leather straps and jutting out just above them were two frightening metal arms adorned with sparing gloves. Sagumi turned to look over his shoulder at the girl, a grin on his face.

"This is going to teach you better than I could, Ton-chan. Come place your hands in these leather straps. The machine will sense the tension in your arms and throw a punch when it gets too tense. This will teach you to keep your arms loose until the point of impact and quickly releasing the energy before the machine can register it, it'll also give you some blocking practice."

Sagumi, as he walked away from the machine and settled down on the wall, neglected to mention that the leather straps would also yank her forward when she got too tense, to demonstrate how much integrity she lost when they did, and then that the fists would then deck her clearly in the face. He could have let her know, but it wasn't nearly as much fun. What was life without a few fists to someone else's face?

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Name: Danketsu: After-Image Dash[Kasumi Gake]
Type: Taijutsu
Rank: D-rank
Range: 15 Meters
Element: N/A
Combo Type: [Ground]
Can Chain From:[Ground]
Description: A useful technique, the Kasumi Gake causes the user the shoot forward at greatly increased speed, leaving only an after-image of their body behind while their body seems to be a blur. This however needs to be a completely controlled movement and as such, cannot be used as an attack itself. The user needs to already be moving and building momentum to use the Kasumi Gake and all movement ceases completely once they exit the Kasumi Gake, leaving another lull before an attack can be executed, giving an opponent ample time to react if not caught completely off guard. This technique has been modified to fit in with the more aggressive Danketsu.