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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Oct 6, 2010 13:18:20 GMT -5
Tachi puts up his hands, as if to say, "Hey, guys, I don't want any trouble." Of course, it also puts him in optimal position to grab the opponents' attacks.
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Post by blacktothefuture on Oct 7, 2010 1:30:12 GMT -5
The one with the gloves takes the lead.
"Then you should pick your company better" he says in a greasy voice. With a flick of his right wrist he produces a telescopic baton and prepares to strike, casting brief looks to his left and right.
It is at this point that Tachi's date acts. She slips in from the center-spike guy's right. Her movement as fluid as a scorpion's sting she uses her right hand to toss the guy's right arm out from him for an opening and comes in with a two-fingered strike to his throat with the left.
"Guahk!"
The guy in the gloves turns back towards this spectacle less in surprise and more in knowing fear. "Shit!"
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Oct 7, 2010 13:30:45 GMT -5
Tachi takes advantage of the opening to move straight into a front kick, keeping his hands up to catch the hand with the baton when necessary.
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Post by blacktothefuture on Oct 7, 2010 21:23:51 GMT -5
Tachi's kick capitalizes perfectly on his enemy's distraction and hits with a heavy "THUD!" in the center of his chest. It causes him to stumble backwards and nearly fall on his ass. Still a little shaky he attempts a sloppy swing-out at Tachi's left thigh.
"Fucking prick!"
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Oct 8, 2010 10:22:11 GMT -5
Tachi attempts to take advantage of his forward momentum from the front kick to bring his leg away from the blow and leap in for a Sticky Hands to his baton hand. If he gets the grip, he'll then attempt to put the guy into a rear hammerlock.
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Post by blacktothefuture on Oct 9, 2010 11:45:10 GMT -5
Tachi has already put his foot down and completed the kick before the guy swings out with his attack. However, Tachi, having been waiting for this attack is easily able to grab it and make a halfway decent transition to a hammerlock.
"AaaahHH! aaahhh! alright I give! I give!" he cries out.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Oct 12, 2010 0:03:16 GMT -5
Tachi pushes him to the ground. "Good. Now, here's a simple favor you can do for me. Relay a message to all your little friends that, if people mess with her, they get hurt. You got a problem, resolve it like a civilized git."
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Post by blacktothefuture on Oct 12, 2010 0:36:02 GMT -5
"Feh! As if we didn't already know. You're messing with one of the Gorgon's Eyes there pal. One of Yuu's personal hi-GAahurr!"
Tachi's date provides an interruption in the form of her heel to the guy's head. She looks from the guy to Tachi with an odd mixture of annoyance and excitement.
"This is the third time. I told them I wasn't going to talk with anyone but Yuu and yet they still think they can force me to do otherwise...bad idea"
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Oct 12, 2010 13:18:26 GMT -5
Tachi chuckles. "Yuu raises his head once again."
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Post by blacktothefuture on Oct 12, 2010 19:20:16 GMT -5
Tachi's company seems honestly surprised.
"You know him? I thought you said you liked to keep clean" she comments, quickly regaining her usual haughty composure. The two of you slowly begin to part yourselves from the crowd as the two fallen guys are being picked up and shown out by club security.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Oct 12, 2010 20:04:43 GMT -5
"I do, and I do. Me and my... buddies had a run-in with the guy. Things went pretty well when he was eating at my restaurant, until we wanted to move 'em up to the second floor so it wouldn't be a problem and we wouldn't get the stigma of being a Yakuza hideout. Then things got ugly."
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Post by blacktothefuture on Oct 12, 2010 23:41:02 GMT -5
"Yuu can be very spiteful" she says smiling a sharp smile. " I wouldn't be surprised if he's marked your entire group for death".
When she says this something in her voice seems to pick up. Just the slightest pique of interest. Either way you cut it Tachi seems to now have her utmost attention. Perhaps due to her own connection to Yuu?
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Oct 12, 2010 23:50:19 GMT -5
"Given my damn high school, I wouldn't be surprised either. But hey. If he keeps comin' after me and my buds, I'll break his goddamn spine!" Tachi laughs in a very particular way that his father taught him: A way designed to give the listener an exact uncertainty about whether or not the speaker is serious. "Maybe we should work together to teach this little brat a lesson. He wants to play with fire, he better not cry when he gets burnt."
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Post by blacktothefuture on Oct 13, 2010 0:36:20 GMT -5
Her smile grows. She likes what she sees..or maybe what she thinks she sees.
"Maybe. You'd certainly have your work cut out for you. Rumor has it Yuu has a group of special martial artists under his control..calls them his personal assassins and unlike those two they're supposed to be pretty tough".
She looks up at Tachi for a little more than a heartbeat before she continues.
"Do you really want to see Yuu get burned?"
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Oct 13, 2010 1:34:45 GMT -5
"Yeah, 'cept we outnumber him and outgun him. We pummeled one of his best. I wouldn't mind puttin' him in his place."
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Post by blacktothefuture on Oct 14, 2010 13:55:28 GMT -5
She draws even closer to Tachi now, the crowd of people more moving around them then they are through the crowd. Tachi can just barely hear his companys whisper over the constant thump of the music.
"Then meet me in three days at the Gohai shrine. Three blocks down from the restaraunt with the peaches. You know the one."
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Oct 14, 2010 23:20:02 GMT -5
Tachi nods. "I suppose that means you're gonn' be heading to other parts, then?"
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Post by blacktothefuture on Oct 15, 2010 0:17:30 GMT -5
"You could say that" she replies slipping Tachi a mischievous smile before melting into the crowd.
For the rest of the night people seem to give Tachi a bit more of a berth than he has come to expect from his size. Security doesn't even bother him about the fight on the way out. By the time he puts the tremors of techno music behind him it almost seems like the events of the past several hours slipped by like some kind of vivid dream.
A dream with a very real appointment attached.
[Episode 5 - The Dangerous Call-back completed!]
Points earned: Honor-0! Cool -2! Delinquent -4!
After a night out clubbing Yakuza-wannabe's what could Tachi possibly follow up with? Perhaps he'll pay a visit to one of his clubs, or maybe just write up a new recipe? Whatever he cooks up you'd best be here come serving time!
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Oct 16, 2010 11:43:23 GMT -5
The recipe Tachi truly wants to serve can only be delivered in a magma cauldron.
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Post by blacktothefuture on Oct 26, 2010 1:17:12 GMT -5
Many people forge their skills under a trial by fire but few will deny the benefit of putting oneself through a crucible of sorts. Refining ones own self is essential for survival in the world of martial arts.
Fresh from a battle that threatened to take his life Tachi Inazuka finds himself in front of his master. This time being talked to instead of talking to him.
"So. Those kids at your school still attack you even now. It would seem that your eagerness to advance is not completely without cause" he says. The words come from his mouth in a steady rolling wave reminiscent of the way seagulls waft through the breeze on the pier. He paces with slow deliberate steps in front of Tachi. The picture of relaxation as opposed to Tachi who sits in strict seiza position.
"Perhaps I am not teaching you as much as I should, yet I still fear what may happen should you learn too quickly..."
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Oct 26, 2010 11:52:17 GMT -5
Tachi is tempted to say, I might, perhaps, be attacked by ninjas, men with electric attacks, legends of karate and meditation, and giant ogres.
He does not.
He says, "Master, I have heard of someone who can advance my style. An old hermit on the mountains, someone known as the Volcano. Under his tutelage, I feel I can advance without fear of giving in to my darker impulses."
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Post by blacktothefuture on Oct 27, 2010 0:21:25 GMT -5
Your master stops to look at you now. His medium frame seeming almost ominous in front of you. His gaze almost palpable your master speaks again.
"I have heard" he says with a voice most serious. "I have heard of such a man". Tachi's master quickly ends his break and goes back to pacing and a more relaxed tone of voice. "The Volcano of Gaoshigai...it is ironic that my pupil would speak to me of learning control from one such as him!"
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Oct 27, 2010 16:48:05 GMT -5
Tachi responds, as humbly as possible, "Isn't learning control the easiest and most profound from those who have had trouble with restraint in the past? Wisdom is only learned by mistakes..."
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Post by blacktothefuture on Oct 27, 2010 17:26:25 GMT -5
Tachi's master stops and looks down again. This time his gaze less stern and more reflective.
"This. is. true." he says now taking a seat himself. Once he is eye to eye with Tachi his voice and demenor takes a tone similar to the one he first used when telling Tachi what he was getting himself into when it came to training with him. "He lives quite far in the mountains, farther than any bus or train will go. Are you sure you have what it takes to even make it TO him and then THROUGH him?"
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Oct 28, 2010 15:16:22 GMT -5
"I have two weeks to prepare to protect my friends and myself from lethal attacks. I have no choice".
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Post by blacktothefuture on Oct 28, 2010 22:32:56 GMT -5
"Very well" he nods. "We will depart tomorrow morning. Pack light and prepare your will."
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Oct 28, 2010 23:50:21 GMT -5
Tachi knows when his teacher is exaggerating. He is too young to have a will. But he does know that his teacher never speaks idly. There is real danger. This man does not want to be found, and he probably trains the way Zanji Shinjinken Ryu trainers do: If you can't make the grade, you can die.
Tachi prepares something outlining who to hire, his recipes, and what to do with his possessions, as well as a note to his friends and family. He sits there for a bit before thinking about whether or not to write to his new lady friend. He then decides to write:
Pretty Lady:
Looks like I died trying to protect myself. Hoped it'd have been to protect you or someone else, but hey. Here's something to help you against Yuu.
Tachi leaves her some money to help build her war chest. He gets an early night and calls the kid from cooking class.
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Post by blacktothefuture on Oct 29, 2010 12:49:50 GMT -5
With a little help from the student office Tachi is able to obtain the kids number and gives him a call. It takes a few tries but finally the guy picks up.
"Alright, who is this?" he asks, probably wary of an unknown number.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Oct 30, 2010 1:16:27 GMT -5
"This is Inazuka, from the cooking club. Look. We've had our differences in the past. But I'm leaving for a few weeks and I need to get a replacement cook for the restaurant or I have to close it. One of my friends is crazy rich and could do it, but I was wondering if you'd want the honor, and the resume builder, or if you know anyone who would. If not, no hard feelings."
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Post by blacktothefuture on Oct 30, 2010 14:20:04 GMT -5
For several minutes there is nothing but dead silence over the phone. Then, just when Tachi is about to hang up he gets a reply.
"Sure. I'll do it" he says in a somewhat bewildered tone.
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