Sparring: Day 3 (Chise & Kenshin)

At last, the day that Kenshin had eagerly been awaiting had finally arrived! Ever since G had announced that he would be putting his students into pairs to spar, the boy could just barely contain his excitement. Just the thought of battling against someone personally trained by G himself was more than enough to ignite the boy's fiery passion and his battle-loving spirit.

This was Kenshin's first time visiting the Pink Jackal. He had heard the name of the place back when he met the pro-hero Army of One at the park. Sadly, a combination of school, sword practice, bass practice, and vigilante stuff kept him from being able to visit the place and see the spider lady. Making a mental note to try to find a way to free up his schedule so that he could come by the place more often, Kenshin followed G as the man showed him around the nightclub.

However, it was not the nightclub itself that interested Kenshin. It was the training area in the back that got the boy grinning with excitement. He could not wait to meet (and more importantly, fight) his opponent.

G explained that the boy would be facing off against his star student, as well as his first student. Her name was Chise, and she was the reason that G was even teaching anyone anything. "I see. I'll be sure to thank her, then."

Apparently, Chise was a UA student, but was in Support Studies rather than one of the Hero Courses. Now it would have been easy for most people to underestimate the girl from that fact alone. However, Kenshin was not most people. He knew that being a student of G, Chise was undoubtedly trained very well. G even confirmed this when he revealed that unlike his other students who had only learned a variation of street fighting, Chise was taught the martial arts of G's people. Underestimating this girl was something only a fool would do, and Kenshin was no fool.

Kenshin then saw a peach-haired girl arrive. This must undoubtedly be Chise. Smiling and bowing, Kenshin waited and let her and G speak to each other first before going over to introduce himself.

"Hello! My name is Kenshin. It's an honor and a pleasure to meet you!"

As he lowered his head to bow once more, Kenshin could not help but feel excited. This would no doubt be one of his toughest fights yet.

"I look forward to seeing your skills firsthand during our spar."

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Notes: Chise will be like the sixth person now who'll get to beat up Kenshin lol

Kenshin listened as G explained the rules for the battle. Unarmed combat, which meant no sword and no armor. Just fists and wits. This meant that Kenshin would be at a massive disadvantage here, seeing as the boy knew next to nothing about martial arts, while the same could not be said of Chise. Still, he would not complain. In fact, Kenshin was looking forward to a challenging fight. He wanted to see how far he could get without relying on his quirk. Plus, this would be excellent training for those situations where he would have to fight while his quirk was in the middle of recharging.

After hearing G call Chise cool and the best (with Chise being modest about it), Kenshin watched as G stepped away into the sidelines to give the two room to fight. He then declared the start of the match. Alright, it's showtime!

Assuming a battle stance, Kenshin watched as Chise made the first move, dashing towards him. Not knowing what to expect, Kenshin backed away for now, doing his best to keep his distance from her. It would be foolish to move in close without knowing what she was capable of.

At first, that was how the battle was going. Kenshin would try to avoid getting too close, and instead observe Chise's movements from a safe enough distance. Still, evading would not be an effective strategy for long. He would need to attack at some point.

However, doing so would be reckless without a plan of some kind. Seeing as he was not trained, his punch would be easy to read and either block, dodge, or counter should he choose to throw one. Instead, Kenshin decided to try something rather unorthodox. Seeing as his hand would transform into a blade whenever the boy wished to attack, it could be said that his sword swings while transformed were just a glorified karate chop. Even when not transformed, the concept was the same. Well, it was all he could think of at the moment.

Kenshin waited for Chise to get close, or if she chose not to approach, then he would dash to her until the two were close enough. This time, instead of backing away, he would go on the offensive. Pretending that his right hand was a sword hand, Kenshin began to swing his hand towards her in a horizontal chopping motion, aiming for her belly. Regardless of whether that move worked or not, Kenshin would then continue to use his hands in such a manner, attacking with chops and jabs as though his hands were very short swords.

Despite this method of attacking being very unusual and strange, it was really all Kenshin had to work with that wasn't the overly obvious and predictable punches and kicks. When in doubt, go with what's familiar, right?

Word count: 473

Notes: Kenshin used Karate Chop!