Practice in Kii(Musashi VS Kotaro)

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After the Oda attack at Iga, Miyamoto Musashi and Fuma Kotaro had arrived in Kii. They had both exchanged words and decided to dual one another. While Kotaro had yet to make his announcement, Musashi stood tall.

His left hand holding his katana down low to the ground. While the right hand rested the blade over his shoulder. A smirk was on his face before he spoke. "Kotaro, once again we shall exchange our styles against each other." Miyamoto Musashi was proclaimed as a master swordsman and he aimed to be the greatest swordsman Japan had even known. While Fuma Kotaro was a master of ninjutsu and had only one true rival in his arts, Hattori Hanzo. Though these two had clashed a few times, none could overcome the other.

[Fūma Kotarō [Andae]]

Kotaro nearly grinned as he watched Musashi, he tilted his head slowly as the man spoke "Of course, and this time, we will not fight to the death, merely until one yields, it seems pointless to carry on fighting when you know you are beaten, also, no criticals?

His question held no emotion, it was merely a way to avoid one of the pair killing the other, his eyes shone as he folded his arms, gripping his upper arms with his hands gently.

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Musashi's eyebrow twitched before his next movements. His right arm, holding his blade on his shoulder, came downward in a fast strike. As his left foot kicked off the ground beneath his feet and his right foot was to catch himself. His left hand raised the katana, which was low, to strike at Kotaro at a horizontal motion. From the left area, across his torso was his target.

[Fūma Kotarō [Andae]]

Kotaro smirked and simply lifted an arm, his steel gloved hand closing on the blade as his other arm snapped forwards towards Musashi's face, suddenly changing trajectory and looping under his body and moving swiftly towards his bare torso, a smirk formed on his face as he pulled his opponent towards him, using his grip on the man's sword to do so.

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Musashi's initial attack had not only been caught, but been used to pull him towards Kotaro. Whilst his attack from his left hand, aimed at the mans torso, had merely been blocked. Musashi's following moves would be of precision. He took a deep breathe and moved carefully.

His right hand, sword being held by Kotaro, stayed in position as it was. His left handed strike had being blocked now moved to break Kotaro's grip. Musashi would raise his sword up and bring it down on the mans gauntlets. Surely Kotaro's gauntlets were made out of some kind of metal, but surely the sheer force of the strike would be enough to relinquish his grip. In this split moments of time as his blade should of been released, his right hand would move to defend himself.

[Fūma Kotarō [Andae]]

Kotaro smirked, and released his grip a moment before the blade connected with his hand, weaving slightly and bringing his right hand up and over the defending blade, grasping towards his face, aiming to grab Musashi and slam him into the floor, to ensure that this strategy worked, his left foot came up towards his shin, the blades over his toes glowing slightly.

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More insistently than anything, Musashi jumped a few feet into the air and backwards. While in mid-air, his left hand wielding his other blade struck downwards with the right handed blade as well. "You're fast Kotaro" When he came back to the ground his swords would be at ease in a defensive stance. His feet well planted and his body balanced.

[Fūma Kotarō [Andae]]

He laughed loudly, his eyes shining brightly as he looked at his opponent "Musashi, you, have seen nothing, and I mean, nothing... Yet his voice seemed to fade away, he paused before the last word, and when he came to utter said word, his voice was coming from behind Musashi, his lips beside his ear as he gripped the swordsman's waist, and bent backwards, suplexing the warrior, head first into the ground.

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The pain that would follow from Kotaro's strike would be a dazzling one. His head smacking into the cold hard paved road in the town. Recovery was slow to him, but it would seem fast to any other. Musashi lumbered back up and adjusted his stance. "Slippery are you not?"

Musashi did not wait for Kotaro's reply. His next moves would be fast and that which he would prove his devotion to becoming 'Japan's Greatest Swordsman'. His right hand, wielding one katana, would strike in a thrusting movement towards Kotaro's chest. The following strike would come from his left hand, wielding another katana. Aimed at the mans neck, in a slicing motion. Afterwards, Musashi would position his blades to defend himself from the fast ninja.

[Fūma Kotarō [Andae]]

Kotaro simply somersaulted into the air, effectively evading the attack, his long braid of blood red hair however, was not saved by this manuveur, and Musashi's left Katana sliced through the thick hair almost as if passing through air.

"Much better to be slippery than predictable Musashi, learn to mix it up a little" his voice rang out across their chosen dueling ground as a burst of shadow symbolised his teleportation technique, one that only two other's had ever learned to perform, one of those two people was Hatori Hanzo.

Kotaro re-appeared beneath Musashi's guard, his clawed foot flying out from his crouched position towards Musashi's shin as he straightened out, reaching for the man's face once again, his fingers curled so that the claws would pierce the flesh if Musashi remained in the way (Not an 'IF' statement, just pointing out that in order to evade mild poisoning, Musashi's gonna have to move xD)

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His movements precise as Musashi jumped back once again. This ninja had proven very agile and was capable of stopping Musashi's strikes not once, but twice. Something not many adversaries were capable of doing, but then again Musashi and Kotaro were rivals and it shown. His left hand, wielding a blade, would stab directly at Kotaro as he jumped back a few feet to avoid Kotaro's strikes. While his right hand, also wielding a katana, would be in a defensive manner.

[Fūma Kotarō [Andae]]

Kotaro hadn't expected the evade, but he had expected the attack, using his momentum from the previous attack, which had missed his opponent, he curled into a tight ball, half-rolled across the floor, under the stabbing strike and springing upwards, seemingly heading straight for the defensive blade, he knew that Musashi was expecting some form of trickery, so he opted to keep it simple, punching towards the man's face as he angled his body into the air to avoid any possible attacks launched by the master swordsman.

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Truly Kotaro had mastered the arts of Ninjutsu for he could do spectacular acrobatics. Which surely would take Musashi another lifetime to master, though he maybe the greatest swordsman, he was still an amateur in other aspects. Musashi watched in shock as Kotaro formed into a ball like shape before him. His body rushing forwards at a spectacular rate. Although his initial attack had missed his other hand still held his blade high for defensive purposes. That had now coming strait down, which would hit Kotaro's skull with the butt of the blade.(Below the handle, not the blade XD )

[Fūma Kotarō [Andae]]

OOC: How he can mange that by bringing the weapon DOWN onto the skull of an enemy ABOVE, I'll never know o.o

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OOC: Then the katana held 'above' Musashi in his left hand would of stabbed him.