Testing the new blood (Jin)

OOC: Jin just a heads up, you wont be allocated points for this rp.

He stood in the middle of the 6th squad grounds, the wind blew and he closed his eyes. Letting the smell of fresh blossoms fill him he set his breathing to a slow rhythmic pace and focused on harmony within.

The task of the day would be to find the key skills needed to become a 6th squad member in the jin person. He would need to demonstrate speed, strength, obviously skill but also a nature that sought to keep equilibrium and harmony in both the surroundings and oneself.

It would not be easy for the kid, but he wouldn’t go flat out. Or even release, that would have dire consequences. No, he would simply test to see what the kid had.

Fingering the hilt of his zanpakuto, he closed his eyes once more and stood at peace waiting for jin to show.

OOC: o thats cool i wasnt expecting any but thanks for letting me know

Jin stepped out onto the grassy plain following the lead of his soon to be captain, as the warm rays of the ambivalent sun rained down upon his skin he felt at peace with the coming event’s. This guy had really surprised Jin he was laid back and peaceful with a serene calm that never seemed to waver but at the same time just looking at this guy portrayed to Jin an aura of confidence and leadership emanating a spiritual pressure that could only be described as frightening, This was his squad this was what Jin strived to be some day.

But seriously how the hell was he going to stand up to this guy, if he just released half his full sprit pressure Jin would probably collapse of suffocation. He didn’t need to beat this guy, he had to impress him and that was what he would do.

As he squared off with the overbearing figure widening his stance and unsheathing his katana, he felt confident that this was a challenge he would overcome as though just making it this far stole from him the possibility of failure. He raised his blade holding it solely in his left hand pointing it forward toward his soon to be opponent he let his reiatsu flow out a shining beacon of his determination pouring forth.

A silent nod was all he gave to signal his readiness for the fight that would ensue.

The guy…Jin was it? Had stepped out to meet him. Stone Faced in front of his power and apparently calm. Good very good.

The nod, accented to his willingness to participate… He pushed of with shunpo, his hand still fingering the hilt of his blade as he moved. As soft rasp of steel on leather was all the notice he gave when unsheathing his blade, no sight of the movement would be visible. And then he was behind Jin. He lashed out with the butt of his hilt aiming to strike at the top of the neck.

Then a shunpo took him round to the other side where he slashed upwards with his blade, a deadly strike. But if he couldn’t even block those two attacks he was usless to him.

Jin’s eyes could hardly keep up with this guy, his movement only given away by the quiet whisper of the grass from the breeze of his shunpo. Jin couldn’t afford one mistake with this guy, the shadow he cast of the grass told Jin of his movement’s aiming a strike for his head, there was no time for flash step, his reflexes jerked his head to the side as the butt of the captains katana slid past the side of his face the man’s knuckles grazing his cheek. But the was no time to relax as soon as the move was made the captain was next to Jin swinging his katana in a vertical slash, deadly but open, Jin stepped to the left the slash gliding past him.

This guy’s speed was unbearable, Jin couldn’t even tell when he’d unsheathed his blade. So this is what it took to become a captain well if so then that’s what Jin would achieve. As the blade cut through the air in the space he had very recently been occupying he took the chance to make a counter attack, whilst the captains momentum was still into the swing Jin swung his sword in a one handed strike to the man’s left side before flash stepping above and behind him and pointing a finger at a trajectory that went straight through the man at his upper back and coming out diagonally through his stomach.

“Hadou number 4: Byakurai” he mermered as the blinding ray of light shot from his finger

He nodded inwardly, a good mix of speed and strength. The dodges had been performed well under the circumstances and the counter attack was good, a simple and quick strike followed by re maneuvering and attacking from a different angle namely kidou.

Hadou Number 4. Simple and effective. It seemed to suit this guy down to the ground, yet it was no big matter for him to simply concentrate reiatsu into his palm and catch the attack.

‘‘Good, but to weak. Try to use more advanced kidou if you can, if you can’t then learn.’’

And then he moved without warning, flicking the tip of his blade up and sending dirt towards Jin’s eyes. He used another shunpo, coming in this time from the front, with a straight thrust and then another shunpo to set him up for a vertical slash to the top of the spinal cord.

‘‘Hadou Number 33: Blue fire crash down!’’ The attack was proberly to strong for Jin to have mastered yet so he wouldn’t be able to negate it. It would defiantly be interesting to see how he dealt with the attack.

‘‘We in the 6 th squad emphasize purity but this dose not mean we expect it of our enemy’s, you will do to remember this.’’

The captain blocked the attack with a simple wave of his palm, it had been stupid to think such a low level spell would cause this guy a threat especially without the incantation. The captain reminded him of the fault he had made encouraging him to use stronger attacks and if that wasn’t possible then become stronger, a message Jin accepted and respected.

Without warning dirt was thrown towards his eyes obscuring his vision, a dirty but efficient tactic he used flash step to avoid the majority of the dust getting just enough into his eye to cause them too water making his vision a little blurry, Then a hazy figure appeared before him thrusting a thin silver stick towards him Jin blacked the move with the side of his katana before watching as the figure disappeared once more. The coarse dry winds were rejuvenating his eyes from they’re excessively moist state, the man was before him once again this time with a slash from behind, Jin refused to be fooled so easily using hohou as a platform he somersaulted over the captain’s slash, landing behind him and using his own tactic against him with a slash to his back. A slight ripping sound could be heard where the speed of the captains attack had nearly outpaced Jin perforating his uniform a little

As Jin flash stepped backward gaining some distance from the foe, the captain turned round calling the name as he went before firing a blue kidou forth toward Jin, damn it at number 33 this was a little high for Jin to counter with a spell of his own, a spell of this calibre could only be sending one message, the games were over it was time to get serious.

“Agitarsi no Hibiku, Suisho Kochou” (Flutter and Resonate, Crystal butterfly)

The spell exploded as it collided with Jin a great plume of dense gray smoke being released, as the smoke thinned Jin could be seen stood encased in a swirling shell of made up of a concentrated mass of crystal shards, he had found as his reiatsu was increasing so too was his ability to release larger and larger numbers of there tiny crystal daggers. He stared forth at the captain readying himself for an attack,

“Purity, the pinnacle of beauty a concept with which I can relate. I’m afraid a cant stay relaxed any more captain of the 6th squad, I have found the creed and sentiment that I will fight for and to do so means going through you, so this is where it begins here is where you will see the strength of Jin Yagami” He said the words with a smile, every syllable spoken with passion, evoking a confidence from deep within as he did so his reiatsu burst forth, emanating the intense aura of a man set on his goal.

Jin flicked his hands out in a series of abrupt movement two swarms of shards flew at the captain from either side, leaving a thin ring rotating around Jin’s waist a precaution he always took for defence. As the shards soared forth he began an incantation.

“Oh the crescent moon of the lunar eclipse, where one of the purist of light and the shadows of darkness, show me your holy light” the words came out in a rushed whisper the speed of which left it sounding like a rasp.

The kidou ball shot forth from his palm flying high into the sky eclipsing the sun for a brief moment before shooting down towards its intended target. At the moment the incantation had left his mouth he'd flash stepped forward landing beneath the captain beginning another spell

“Hadou Number 23: 36 pound cannon” he whispered as the condensed blade of air was fired forth.

Boxing an enemy in, a tactic he owed to his lesson from Kajitora.

A four pronged attack, very smart. The captain let a small flash of a grin flicker across his mouth at the kid’s underhanded tricks before he stifled it and set down to business.

Pointing the fingers of his right hand backwards he shot a hadou number 33 form his fingers, without the incantation it was barley strong enough to negate the kidou but it would do.

Then turning his attention on the kidou racing in from the sky he quickly flash stepped up to meet it, striking his blade against the length of it. Kidou spear met a captain’s blade and after a brief struggle the kidou dissipated.

He dropped down from his leap leaving him only a second or two to deal with the attacks from either side; it was seemingly a shikai attack. A nice little move it was too allowing the attacks to be split up and manipulated at will.

He guessed however that to manipulate it left Jin in a state of weakness, leaving him prime for a long range blast ‘‘Hadou Number 3: Crimson blast’’ He choose a weak attack so as to not injure Jin.

This left him only to deal with the two attack either side of him, he didn’t have time however to get them both so leaping to the left he smashed one apart with his blade and took the pain of the other one on his left arm.

He blocked out the pain in his arm; he had dealt with far worse. Instead he leapt after his kidou attack and sent a flurry of slashed and thrusts for Jin to deal wit right after the attack.

The strike had been a success…..of sorts. Another sokatsui spell was used to block the hadou number 23 spell Jin had cast from behind before leaping up and diffusing the light spear with nought but his blade, the strength of a captain continued to surprise Jin. To his delight the captain’s effort to block his kidou attacks had left him with little time to avoid the move Jin had performed with his shikai, battling the swarm to his left had left him completely open to the cloud of shards on his right allowing them to tear into him. Jin kept his features cold, not allowing his pride at landing a hit on the captain to show, but still this guy hadn’t even released his sword and he was all over Jin completely keeping him on his toes.

Whilst the captain had been defending against the Jins former attack’s he’d taken some time to fire off a hadou Jin’s way, usually a level 4 hadou without the incantation would have been nothing for him too worry about but with the reiatsu of a captain behind it it definitely became a problem Jin flash stepped to his left, skidding through the air as the blast flew past him he looked up too see the captain now flying toward him at incredible speed before unleashing a barrage of attacks his way, using his right hand he manipulated the crystal around him blocking the captains attacks as best he could but with only one hand and such a limited amount of shards he couldn’t put up a decent match to the speed of the captains strikes. Two or three times the blade slipped through his defence tearing through the skin of his arm and shoulder, blood spurting from the newly formed wounds.

Using his left hand he pulled free the shards that were lodged in the captains arm doing so in a diagonal direction to cause as much collateral damage as possible, the cloud of shards the captain had dispersed with his sword Jin now reformed into three crystal butterfly’s which soared over to meet there master, all the while using his right to keep up his defence, as the captain unleashed another in his relentless chain of attacks Jin flash stepped away appearing once more a few meters ahead of the man blood dripping from the wounds inflicted upon him in the barrage of attacks, he gave the captain a quick smile before giving a command to the butterfly’s that had faithfully returned now just a few centimetres behind Jin’s opponent.

“Corrode” he whispered in a voice that sounded a little to eager too see the captain caught in the attack.

Immediately a cloud of thick neon green smog was released by the butterfly’s obscuring Jin’s vision of his foe.

Although that strike had proved to be quite the drain on his reiatsu reserve he decided to make the most of his attack

“Let those who toss the stone in the pond, be splashed by their own self doubt”
“Hadou Number 24: Water slicing blade”

The shot of condensed water fired forth from the soil below up toward the plume of green fumes.

The thick cloud of green smoke enveloped him, perplexed by this strange move the captain stood there. He could feel the smoke working away at him and the dull pain it produced, but his spirit pressure was enough to deal with most of it. Yet against a weaker opponent it would have been very potent.

Closing his mouth as he didn’t trust swallowing any of it, he shut his eyes too. It was an ambush tactic and the last thing he needed to do was rush around like a headless chicken when caught in an enemy’s web.

With his eyes closed he focused on hearing, waiting for the sound that would tip him off. It came in the form of a kidou incantation, “Let those who toss the stone in the pond, be splashed by their own self doubt”
“Hadou Number 24: Water slicing blade”

The attack came from the right off him. Spinning down onto one knee he focused reiatsu into the blade and felt the force of the blow as it struck his sword. It parted at his blade and carried on to either side of him.

The time to strike was now, a move like this was reiatsu intensive and if he moved quickly after that kidou attack Jin should be highly weakened. Using a shunpo in the direction the attack had come from he moved till he was out of the smog….There, he saw him.

Again a shunpo, taking him directly in front of the weakened Jin. Thrusting with the butt of his hilt he knocked into Jin’s stomach and slashed the blade upwards laying it to rest on the skin of Jin’s neck.

‘‘Dead. Good, although you lost you showed to be resourceful, strong, fast and pure of heart. Although you don’t mind getting you’re hands dirty either which is a good thing.’’

With these words he walked off, leaving Jin in silence.

OOC: Fight completed. Thread locked.