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Post by Utaku Hisui on Mar 19, 2018 3:09:38 GMT -5
Kiss me.The words echoed in the Utaku's mind as she practiced. For someone who only had one lesson in the basic forms of iaijutsu, Hisui had a good grasp of them already. She entered the stance Fuyuko taught her with ease, falling into it as if it was the most natural thing in the world. She focuses, imagines pale skin and a concealed eye. The image is the only thing in her mind as she delivers a practice strike on the dummy, cleaner than any she's done before. Not that she can tell. Someone with a more practiced eye, however, should be able to tell. She returns to the stance, readies herself for another strike. If someone such as Kakita Uetani was nearby, she had yet to notice.
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Post by Kakita Uetani on Mar 19, 2018 3:12:51 GMT -5
She is there of course. If she is not with one of her lovers in the morning, she is here. She smiles to see Hisui work
"That was wonderful mother" she smiles, approaching "And here I was to believe you needed practice"
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Post by Utaku Hisui on Mar 19, 2018 3:16:15 GMT -5
Hisui pauses, breaking from the stance. She nods as appropriate as the Crane approaches.
"I do. I've only had one proper lesson," she says, not realizing how good the strike was. Or pinning it down to luck. "Honestly, I've only known how to do that for...three days?"
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Post by Kakita Uetani on Mar 19, 2018 3:24:31 GMT -5
"Beginners luck then" she smiles taking her mother's hands and guiding her stance "Try again?" (+5 from Uetani's assistance)
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Post by Utaku Hisui on Mar 19, 2018 3:28:47 GMT -5
"Beginner's luck, most likely." She lets the young Kakita guide her hands without objection. The return to the stance is smooth, easy. That much is clear. In all likelihood, it is the strike where Hisui has trouble. In fact, that is exactly where she had difficulty last time. In this instance, as she focuses on that wonderful afternoon when Fuyuko seized her lips from below for the umpteenth time, she strikes. It is clean and deadly, but not as good as the one Uetani saw. "I must admit, your future mother is the first one I've met to frame iaijutsu in a manner I understood," she says as she looks to the Kakita for assessment of her strike. |
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Post by Kakita Uetani on Mar 19, 2018 3:32:18 GMT -5
"Tell me about it. Perhaps your understanding will increase my own." She takes her own stance, and makes her own strike, the blade moving in a quick and fierce arc. Her skill is clearly approaching that of her other mothers. "She is a good teacher. And I like to think I will follow in her footsteps some day" |
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Post by Utaku Hisui on Mar 19, 2018 3:35:48 GMT -5
Hisui watches the strike. Even with her lack of skill, she can tell it's a beautiful and powerful thing. If she'd ever seen Fuyuko strike, she might wonder just how small the gap between the two Crane was. As it stands, she has never seen the Magistrate work, so she cannot truly compare.
"Kiss her," she answers. "She told me to kiss her with the blade."
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Post by Kakita Uetani on Mar 19, 2018 3:41:40 GMT -5
She smiles, and think of the same thing trying to put it from her head.
"I was going to ask you to show me your stance, so that we might work to improve each other... But now it feels almost like it would be inappropriate"
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Post by Utaku Hisui on Mar 19, 2018 3:51:09 GMT -5
"She did advise me not to practice duel yet," Hisui says, sounding calm and unaware of the process that runs through the Kakita's mind. "But that was against her. I'm certain she outclasses me easily, in terms of experience and training."
She tilts her head at the second part. "Why inappropriate? I imagine that, despite your skill, you're less likely to be overwhelmingly better than me than your future mother would be. My focus has always been kenjutsu, but I don't think I'm that terrible at iai."
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Post by Kakita Uetani on Mar 19, 2018 3:52:27 GMT -5
"I doubt that you are terrible either, but if every stroke of your blade is a kiss, then it is something to be shared only between the two of you ne?"
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