Lessons From Other Peers [Open]

None of Muratwo's actions change, thus triggering Kitwo's plan to lock her weapon in place. Muratwo halts her advance when Kitwo's blade begins to pass through the eye of her weapon, one hand on Fish Eagle and the other moving down to draw a legacy kunai into her grip. With all of her strength she wrenches her weapon towards Kitwo, taking advantage of the gap in time where their weapons have become locked together but the tip of his blade has not yet sunk into the ground. Muratwo's superior strength means that she will wrench Kitwo's blade from his grip if he does not surrender it or draw it closer to himself, and the axe head of her poleaxe will flash dangerously as it whistles through the air, closing the thirty-five centimeter gap he has created between it and his midsection at a speed of 100.

All the while, Muratwo is most worried about that second sword. She is still a comfortable distance away and safely out of his immediate reach, but that could change any moment, and she is ready to react if it does.

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186
TWC: 1533

Muratwo 78/348 (-20 Mind's Eye of the Kagura)

Just as he thought, Muratwo was quite the smart cookie. She thrust the weapon forward before Kitwo could pierce the weapon to the floor. Additionally, she seemed to be drawing something out from her ninja tool bag, although Kitwo couldn't exactly determine what that was. Still, while this wasn't entirely what he had planned, this would be good enough.

Muratwo thrusted forward with her weapon, catching Kitwo's katana on the end of the gap closest to herself and forcing it backwards, twisting its trajectory from angling towards Muratwo to angling towards Kitwo due to his collapsing wrist. Ultimately, Kitwo was fine with that. His grip on the sword changed position, shifting from a traditional grip into one that grips at the pommel. He continued to force it downwards as he did this despite the trajectory towards himself, using his body weight and gravity to push the sword deeper into the gap and closer to the floor through friction between the two metallic objects (Metal Crusher). Muratwo had been aiming for Kitwo's abdomen, and clearly waited for his katana to get into a position in the gap where it would be able to catch on the side of his weapon and potentially disarm him. With that in mind, and the weapons both traveling at the same speed in the same direction, it would stand to reason that the katana could reach the ground by the time that the Fish Eagle reached Kitwo, driving it through the tatami mats and into the wooden floor below.

So why can Kitwo stab through the floor in the first place?:

Kitwo knew that he would still be struck if he remained in place however. While this was going on, and as soon as Muratwo thrust forward, Kitwo began to jump upwards slightly to avoid the Fish Eagle (150 Speed). He also brought his legs up with him into a U-Shape to reduce the amount of distance he needed to travel, making sure it wasn't anything dramatic. Dramatic heights weren't necessary. Kitwo continued forcing the katana downwards as he jumped, making sure to keep a steady hand on it for balance, and bringing his other sword back in front of his body to defend against attacks. When the Muratwo completed her 35 centimeter attack, Kitwo was clinging to the top of the Fish Eagle using the tree climbing technique, and holding onto both blade hilts.

Word Count - 794

Total Word Count - 11076

Jutsu Used:

Kitwo, being 5'5" (or 1.65 meters) tall, functions as a suitable reference point for the current height of Fish Eagle's blade. Though he is not yet fully grown, that places his abdomen at the very least halfway up his height, or 82 centimeters from the ground. With Fish Eagle gliding towards this point, that places the blade 82 centimeters from the ground, and informs the distances that he and his sword will have to travel. To jump atop Muratwo's weapon, he will have to jump 82 centimeters in the time that Muratwo's blade must travel 35. Similarly, his blade will need to travel just a little less than that to reach the ground, as Muratwo had initiated her attack when it had just begun to move through the hole in the blade.

Dodging upwards at a speed of 150, Kitwo will be able to move his feet upwards a maximum of 52.5 centimeters in the time it takes Muratwo's blade to travel 35 centimeters, and he will be able to jump 75 centimeters in the time it takes the hilt of the weapon to reach him. Muratwo has committed to her attack, and events will simply play out from here in the fashion that both parties have set into motion. If he has second thoughts about his course of action, the die has unfortunately been cast. Muratwo allows her sensory technique to end.

Fish Eagle meets Kitwo's body once he has managed to leap that 75 centimeters - putting his abdomen out of the way, but keeping his legs, regrettably, still directly in the line of fire. It has not been established how far apart his legs are, so to be charitable we will assume that his far leg will evade the hungry tip of the blade, but the blunt hilt of Fish Eagle slams his near ankle with a sickening crack. With an impact force of 97.5, it cleanly smashes the clone's ankle and foot bones and pulps a good deal of the skin and muscle - just shy of the numbers necessary to entirely blow his foot off. Muratwo grimaces, hoping this is enough of a blow to disperse him instantly - it looks like it it's gonna hurt. If it does not, her weapon will catch his ankle and send him twisting forwards through the air - where Muratwo's kunai is ready to meet him and finish this fight, as she looses it towards his center of mass as soon as her weapon makes contact.

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414
TWC: 1947

Muratwo 78/348 (Mind's Eye of the Kagura ended)

Kitwo's actions didn't change in the slightest. The weapon came dangerously close to slicing through Kitwo's leg, almost ripping his ankle asunder. However, there was one thing that Muratwo forgot to factor into her calculations. Kitwo was around 1.65 meters tall, and she had been aiming at his abdomen, placing her intended strike at around 82 centimeters from the ground, or .82 meters. In the time that it would take Muratwo to swing her weapon 35 centimeters, it's true that Kitwo would only be able to move around 52.5 centimeters, placing Muratwo's strike at around 29.5 centimeters from the bottom of Kitwo's feet. However, this only accounts for if Kitwo had jumped straight up into the air. This places Kitwo's midsection roughly 134.5 centimeters off the ground, around 1.345 meters. Of course, Muratwo had forgotten to account that Kitwo could bend and collapse his legs as he stated that he did, reducing the necessary height needed to jump and reducing the size of Muratwo's target. Considering Kitwo's speed of 150, he could bring his legs up along his body at the same time that he was jumping, allowing them to bring them up 52.5 centimeters as well, placing them well above the 29.5 centimeter threshold that would originally have struck him.

Just as Muratwo said, their next actions are locked into play as the two parties have set in motion. No time for regrets, no time to reconsider. Kitwo was crouched in position on the blade of the fish eagle as Muratwo threw her legacy kunai. She didn't make a move to wrench her main weapon free, leaving Kitwo free to move around this limited surface as he wished. This gave Kitwo around 2 meters (roughly estimating) of time before the kunai reached him. With the katana in the earth, Kitwo didn't exactly need it anymore. He weaved the hand signs to conjure his water blade once again with the hand that had laid on the pommel of the katana, leaving the old sword buried behind in the earth (Water Release: Water Cutting Sword. Of course, immediately after it formed Kitwo would follow it with his River Cutter technique, increasing his water blade's cutting power (Suiton: River Cutter). However, he had some time before that occurred, so that option wasn't available at the moment. That would make three hand signs done for the Water Cutting Sword at 120 Speed. Of course, he still had to dodge the kunai. While he was doing this, Kitwo would simultaneously rush forward and left together by pushing off both Muratwo's weapon and his own katana hilt that had been lodged firmly into the ground. The exact direction and distance that he would travel would depend on Muratwo's reaction to seeing that Kitwo is not in fact dead yet, but considering that he had 2 meters of distance to work with, as well as a dodge speed of 150 vs a kunai speed of 137 (Going to say Muratwo is using her maximum throwing speed considering she wants to end this fight quickly), Kitwo wasn't particularly at risk of getting hit by it.

Word Count - 518 Words

Total Word Count - 11594 Words

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For the second bout, the original Murata's attention has slowly been wandering from watching Kitwo to watching her own double - in the last few exchanges, a frown beginning to deepen on her face.

When Kitwo manages to hop up on to the weapon, Muratwo lets out an audible growl of frustration. Though Murata is too far to hear it, the story told by her double's posture and sloppy movements is obvious.

"I surrender,"" Murata calls across the battlefield as Kitwo evades the kunai. Muratwo's attention is immediately wrenched from the spar, the clone spinning towards her original. Her faceplate is still down, but if Kitwo holds off on attacking further, he will hear the strain in her voice and her heavy breathing.

"What! I have him!"

"You are out of chakra, you are getting sloppy, and Tadasada will get impatient" Murata calls... and dispels her double before she has any more time to throw a fit, grimacing as her clone's bad vibes return to her. "Good fighting, Kita," she says to her teammate, smiling.

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TWC: 2121

Bobo, Kita, and Kitwo's eyes all widen in response to Murata's proclamation. Kitwo stumbles when his feet collide into the ground, causing him to fumble on his hand signs and drop the jutsu. He steadies himself and turns in the direction of the original Muratwo. "I'm sorry, you surrender? I think I may have heard you incorrectly."
Murata calls back her clone, leaving him the only fighter remaining on the stage. Bobo seemed surprised too. "Yeah! What the other you said! You were badass out there with your energy wave, and the turning invisible, and the big spear thingy! Why'd you stop?"
Kita felt the same way. The fight hadn't even been decided yet, and she was recalling the clone now? After all that, the fight was just supposed to end? It made Kita furious on the inside. Still, Kita threw on a smile and dismissed his own clone, allowing its memories to pass back into him. That, just added insult to injury. His left eye twitched once even as he continued smiling when the memories returned to him. Muratwo wasn't even at full strength. She was exhausted, and Kita still couldn't beat it.

Kita took Bobo off of Murata's back, and placed him back onto his own shoulders. "Good fight! Hopefully we'll be able to finish this again some day. Next time, I'll beat you properly!"

Kita smiles, but his eyes are hard. A feeling adjacent to shame twists in Murata's gut, but she dismisses it. There will be other opportunities.

"Sometime soon," she says. "I look forward to it."

The two part - their record standing 1-1 in Murata's mind and 0-1 in Kita's.

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WC: 48
TWC: 2169

Claiming:
Unlearning 8 points of Strength and 3 points of Vigor, training 11 points of Chakra. All training at a rate of 80/stat due to the Military Training Facility, so that all costs 1760. Not using max stat discount for any of this stuff, so training stats and techs at the same time.

750 words into training River Cutter at B-Rank for 50% teaching discount.
1250 words into training Rupture at A-Rank for 50% teaching discount.

Discarding remaining 169 words.

Memorization of Kita Hajime and Bobo's Chakra signatures.
40AP
8,000 ryo

Approved @ Murata

Kita returned back home with determination in his eyes. He would get stronger, strong enough to where something like this wouldn't happen ever again. First however, he needed to continue his studies. Whatever it was that Yumeko did in their fight, it was powerful. Kita spent the rest of the night reading up on the book, listening to Bobo as he explained the relationship between Kekkei Genkai and DNA.

Word Count - 69 Words

Total Word Count - 11890

Exit Claims:

Approved