Unexpected Appearance [NK,IO, Tenma]

Lucien, ten meters from the opponent, scanned the surrounding area. Small rock sized pieces of stone rubble were scattered around the area. From the center point between them, it was a radius of forty meters before buildings would get in their way. 

"A spar eh? Sounds good to me." Lucien said. He slightly bent his knees and turned so his right side was in the lead. Bending his right elbow, Lucien unsheathed the Galaken with his lead hand at eighty speed and aligned it so the hilt would be placed slightly above his waist and directly aligned with his lead leg. The Galaken's blade was four inches from his chest at all times, positioned diagonally so the blade's tip would be around his left shoulder. 

Lucien prepared to react, should Ketsueki make a move earlier than his expected. Lucien extended his left arm fully, and pointed its hand to his target all at one-hundred and five speed. 

Five snakes surged out of Lucien's left sleeve at fifty speed, spreading in a special formation. 
The first snake moved a half of a meter left from Lucien's body and faced toward Ketsueki, using the remainder of its snake mass as a small shield on his left side going from Lucien's mid-knee to chest height. The second snake around Lucien's left side until forming what looked like a snake tail from his lower back, looking behind him at all times. 
The third snake went two inches above the ground on Lucien's left side with its head placed five meters ahead of him. The fourth snake did simultaneously did the same except on the his right side. The fifth snake curved until the first snake's mass and continued the shield until the snaky mass went all the way to the ground. 
[The whole formation occurs at fifty speed and all snakes move simultaneously] 

Lucien remains ready to react should Ketsueki had done anything. 

Lucien formed a half-tiger seal with his left hand at one hundred and fifteen speed. Ten snakes grew out of each snake at two hundred speed. "Forbidden Art! Great Snake Augmentation!" 

[The snakes still keep the same formation, except nine more manning each station.]

Snake Unit Three slithered toward Ketsueki at fifty speed, each of the ten splitting out equidistantly by five inches. 


AP: 600 
- 25 for Hidden Shadow Snake Hands
- 20 for Demonic Illusion: False Surrounding Technique
AP: 555

Tenma would just raise up his hands and shake his head, He was thinking a Spar, a little fist to fist, heck he could go weapon to weapon, but throw jutsu into the mix and he was not ready for that kind of stuff just yet.

he would then call out to Lucien "Sorry not what I expected, if this is your Idea of a spar, Ill pass friend, at least until I get some more Jutsu under my belt, Otherwise this goes from a Spar to just a beat down. And I dont feel like getting beat down at this moment."

Tenma would wait to see how Lucien would react to this statement before he decided what his next actions would be.

Lucien saw Ketsueki's displeased reaction. This was overkill for a spar. However, he wanted to test that combo and see how Ketsueki would counter such an approach. 

"Granted, I never did ask his skill level." Lucien thought. The snakes froze and retracted back to their summoner's sleeves at fifty speed. "My bad, that's too much for sparring." 

They vanished with a puff of smoke and Lucien sheathed his Galaken into its scabbard. 

"Good to know the combo worked nevertheless. Now, to fight in a way haven't for a long time. Hand to hand." Lucien thought.

He put his left foot in the lead and bent both knees slightly, placing his weight in the balls of his feet. His torso was slightly facing right. He elbows were fully tucked in and his hands were open palms face side by side in front of his face, still leaving room for adequate vision. 

"Ready whenever you are." He said.

"Well it Seriously caught me off guard, maybe later, just give me some time" Tenma spoke to Lucien and he retook his stance he had taken previously, then made a waving hand gesture for Lucien to come at him.

He had a couple plans depending on how Lucien approached him, the question was tho, how would Lucien come at him, would it be a straight charge, or a cautious approach. Tenma watched and waited to see if he could get a opening and oppertunity to show what he could do and what he had deep within him.

He just hoped that he would not get bum rushed and in the end be unable to defend himself at all against his opponent, but it was all up to Lucien at this moment, while he tried to think about his own approach in case he needed to go after Lucien himself.

Lucien scanned Ketsueki, seeing he made no entry attack. 
With some ten meters between the two, this was rather a large starting distance for a hand to hand spar. 

Lucien adjusted his stance a bit more, getting low and spreading his legs farther apart and placing his weight in his right leg behind him. 
"Heh."
He switched his open palms to loose fists, left in front of his face and right slightly below his chin, with his thumbs tucked under each respective pair of 4 fingers before tucking his elbows in a bit more.

Lucien constantly moved his head side to side and slightly up and down, making sure to keep it vertical while darting his eyes to assess Ketsueki's arm length. 

Keeping his form, Lucien moved forward making sure to remain in constant movement and would continue in the direction of his opponent, assuming nothing unexpected happened, until he was point one meters outside of Ketsueki's maximum punch range. 

Lucien threw a quick jab then tucked his elbow back in contraction at this range just to see Ketsueki's reaction.

555 AP
- 5 AP for clan passives
550 AP

Ketsueki would allow Lucien to get as close as he wanted, and when he went for the jab just outside of Ketsueki's range, Ketseuki would reach to grab Lucien's arm, as he did so, and if he was successful at it, he would turn while stepping, placing a foot between Lucien's feet. If Executed properly, This would flip Lucien over Ketseuki, and have him land on his back. In any real fight Tenma would keep his hold after that, however as this was just a spar, he would let go of the arm and take two steps back away from Lucien to allow him to get up comfortably and think of a different angle to come at Tenma.

However if Lucien was to pull away before Tenma could get ahold of him, he would just retake his defensive stance, waiting for his opening on Lucien before taking it.

The entire time that Lucien was moving forward , Tenma had been sizing him up, it could be a fun spar depending on how everything went, but that was not exactly in his control. Tenma was going over many possible scenario's he possibly could in his head to see which outcomes he liked best, but again this was all mostly dependant on Lucien and his moves at every step of the way.

Lucien felt his opponent grab his wrist and the force of the stepping-turn flip. "A flip huh." Lucien thought. Lucien waited until he was directly above Ketsueki and ran along the air as if it were a solid donut in the air. If Ketsueki didn't let go, Lucien would run above him in circles until, purposely over-twisting his arm if he didn't let go. 

If Ketsueki managed to counter, Lucien would do whatever was required to land safely and regain his defensive stance as fast as possible.


550
- 10 AP for Air Running and Clan Passive
540 AP

He felt Lucien stop in mid-air and then when Lucien could move freely up there, Tenma would hold onto the arm long enough to jump off the ground, while holding the arm using it to pull himself up as well to be able to get his leg up high enough to kick Lucien in the head, rather the kick connected or not, tenma let go at that point allowing himself to fall onto his back, but the moment his back touch the ground he would roll backwards up onto his feet looking in the general direction that Lucien was in previously to try and keep his sparing partner in his eye sight.

It was a good thing that Lucien had another arm free of any usage when Ketsueki tried to kick him. With his other arm, he'd block and then jump off the air in the opposite direction that Ketsueki landed and rolled in. Should he had not been interrupted, they'd be ten meters apart again. Regardless however, Lucien would attempt to land and take his defensive stance keeping his opponent in view at all times.

Tenma would put his hands up in the air and shake his head "I concede, You are far to out of my league for this, Maybe next time yea?" Tenma would then approach Lucien with a hand extended out to him, offering him a good and proper handshake on the rain check for the spar "Who knows next time we might could include Jutsu as well" He stood now directly in front of Lucien offering the hand shake and waiting for Lucien to accept it.

Now some may wonder as to why, Tenma was all for helping someone out, but he never liked kicking Kindergartners, and this was exactly that, and even worse was this time he was the Kindergartner, so there was nothing he could absolutely do that would ever phase this man, not to mention it was unfair to Lucien, cause he needs a proper opponent, Not someone like Tenma at this point. That was Tenma's Reasoning for doing this at this point, later perhaps, just not right now.