Junko was disliked by her teachers, but no one can argue with results. So that is what she had to achieve to get through the academy. She knew why but it wouldn’t change. Her armor, they said it made her less mobile, and that she would fall behind when she needed to work with a group.
It’s true that she wasn’t the fastest to get to a fight, but she doesn’t quite need to get there quick if she can destroy whatever is there when she gets there. She usually won in spars, wooden swords or not. Not only that but the other students didn’t quite have the brains but had the brawn.
Now she has determination and this is certainly important but she had to do that much better to get good recommendations. She trained harder and longer than anyone else did. Her form had to be perfect.
Today she is training to combine incantation-less kidou into her sword combat. It was something that she had been trying to do but her attempts had been clumsy and unsuccessful. She wanted to amplify a strike with Hado 1 but she had been having trouble focusing on precision and direction of the kidou, as well as the timing.
She set up 10 straw dummies and set to work. She slashed at one yelling “Hado 1 Sho” as she swung, she cut the dummy in half before she could get the kidou to work, but it did blast the two pieces away afterward.
The next one she yelled “Hado 1 Sho!” as she brought her arm up, and while she her kidou activated at the right time, she was then focused on the dummy, and hitting it with her sword. As a result the kidou fizzled out and died as she sliced through it.
Junko calmed herself and started the sequence. She concentrated on the kidou. Her mind’s eye she focused on her kidou as her real eyes focused on cutting the straw dummy. As her Zanpaktou entered the dummy the kidou did not go off. But rather when she was about a quarter way through it activated, exploding the dummy before her sword cleared it.
Junko was satisfied with her work she repeated the process on another two dummies. Those being just as destructive she left, leaving the mess and remaining five dummies to some lucky or unlucky soul who found them.
Word Count: 401
Subject: Adaptation 
Sun Nov 07, 2010 11:39 pm
