I'm back again, with another chapter!!! Earlier than I thought, I was
planning to only post this chapter after one week, but I am feeling nice
and inspired today - so why not post it?
And I would like to thank those who reviewed my last one!! You guys made my
day!!!
I hope you like this one as well!! Enjoy.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Chapter Two: Growing up - the training
As soon as she stepped inside that large house, Miho, or Okaa-san as she began to call her, gave her some food and told her to go to sleep for tomorrow her training will begin in early morning. Something, which she found herself looking forward to what she didn't know, was how hard that training was supposed to be.
Out of all of her training, the one that she started on the next morning was the most boring and probably the hardest since she was only 2, though it looked as if her sensei omitted that fact. Miho, had at first, intended to just give her a stack of books and evaluate how well she could learn by herself. (She just appeared with a stack of thick books and said, "I want you to read, learn, understand and remember all these books say") Her original idea was postponed, however, when she found out that Shinya didn't know how to read or write. 'I should have known' she thought, 'I should have realised by the clothes that she was wearing and her age there was no possibility that Shinya could read or write' Therefore she had to delay her training plans, by exactly 6 months, as it was the time that took her to teach Shinya how to read and write. Mostly because of how strict she was and that Shinya was very eager in learning it, which made the process faster. Naturally she didn't just waste 6 months in that, during those moths she also made Shinya put to use all that she was learning, into reading and writing and memorizing.
Over those six months Shinya learned to not call Miho Okaa-san, only after training, or her lessons in this case, when she didn't seem to mind as much and in it's place learned to call her sensei or sensei-Miho. And although she was only a 2 year old she also noticed that her sensei wasn't someone that she could talk to like a mother, or what she thought a mother should be for her mother didn't really care for her for what she could notice. The fact that Miho didn't let her have any childhood also contributed to making Shinya keep to herself and become cold, not wanting to show her emotions and get hurt. Not wanting to expose herself and risk rejection. Not wanting to feel that pain and loneliness feeling that came whenever she was ignored. She became more observant, instead of talking she would rather observe and learn, as that was the method sensei-Miho first taught her. Even thought Miho took away her childhood, Shinya still had respect and a bit of caring towards her sensei. After all she was taking care of her and teaching her, and in regards to her childhood, people would say, 'We can't miss what we never had.' The time Shinya took studying those books was one year, put the half year she spent learning how to read and write we come to one and a half years after Miho found her. Finally satisfied with her knowledge in those books (Kenjutsu, Human body, weapons, mainly swords etc) she started to teach her Kenjutsu, practically.
There wasn't a particular style to it, mainly what a swordsman would need to attack and defend in order to win. Overall it was just as powerful, deadly, accurate and essential in learning how to fight as any particular style, for Miho believed you couldn't completely master any technique if you didn't know the origins and basics of where it came from.
Three years were spent in learning Kenjutsu, and during those years poor little Shinya suffered various bumps and bruises coming from different styles of training. As she reached the age of six and a half years Miho was finally satisfied with her performance in sword-fighting and deemed her ready to begin her training in her style of swords fighting, in which a real sword was not used but a fan with blades on it; the name was Umikaze.
[AN: Try imagining those Japanese fans used to blow wind on your face, but made of a special, bendable metal which can slash through anything.]
Miho began by showing Shinya her weapons; they were two custom made oriental fans. To the untrained eye they seemed ordinary but she could see the blades on the edges and noticed that they were very fine, and could probably cut many things, including human flesh. Nodding to show her understanding but grimaced when the thought of all the bruises and hardships she new she would have endure in order to learn that technique. 'At least I had three years of endurance practise before this' Shinya thought still frowning at the weapons.
That day she was taught the principles of sensei-Miho's technique, how it worked, and the weapons used. By far it was the most relaxing training she had since Miho found her, thankfully the bruises would be made another day.
Though before they started to put those principles into practise Miho told her something that didn't let her sleep as easily that night as it occupied her thoughts all day and night long. Miho said that she would have to design her own weapon; the only requirement for the technique was that it be a fan. - Occidental or oriental it didn't matter. Her deadline was until the end of the week, until then and the time needed to make her weapon they would train with normal fan, no blades, Shinya just had to decide which style they would be in. She had asked Miho what would happen if she couldn't come up with a design by the end of the week, and Miho answered. "Then you will leave this place and forget everything I ever taught you, for you will have proved unworthy of the technique." Needles to say that only helps Shinya in panicking more about the design and adding to her lack of sleep.
The next day Miho took her to a room she hadn't entered before and then opened a large cupboard with various fans, in all styles she could see, but she also noticed that they had no blades. For some strange reason she felt attracted to the occidental styled ones, probably because she had never seen them before, so, naturally she chose one of them.
Lessons were a bit strange for her as no contact was made directly since there were no blades; it was just the movement and grace in which she had to perform the technique. But she didn't mention anything to Miho, she new that if she did her sensei would find a way to make sure she would return every night with bruises from her training.
Miho also announced that she would also be having some other training procedures in which she would learn other aspects of fighting to aid her. She will be learning the God speed, which enabled her to attack at a very high speed, which only the trained eye could see. After mastering it she will learn Shukuchu [AN: For those who don't recognise this technique, it is the one Soujirou Seta used when he fights Kenshin in the Kyoto Arc], a technique that also enables her to attack but at a greater speed than the God speed. And the person doing it was impossible to see, except for the marks left on the ground by their feet, though you could diminish them with time. Another small technique is one that would not leave her dependent in any of her senses, which can be fatal for any swords man. There were various minor training involved, of which the pupil will have to learn how to fight without the aid of their developed six sense, without their hearing, without their eyesight and without their sense of touch. If the case came when all of these were mastered then the sensei might want to test the pupil by taking all four away and then also test will all three senses 'working', we can say.
Though she should get some time off her training to plan the design of her fan, she got none. In fact training intensified with all these aiding techniques and Miho's style of fighting. Shinya had no other option but to stay up late trying to come up with some sort of design suitable for a weapon. When no inspiration came to mind, Shinya decided to go to sleep, but her mind was restless, for her time was running out and she didn't want to go away without finishing her training.
But that night she had a strange dream, or premonition would suit better with hindsight. She dreamt that she was fighting another woman with night dark hair and orange eyes, but what caught her attention weren't on her opponent but the weapons in which she was fighting her with. There were two occidental-styled fans, which cut thought everything it came in contact with, except it's possessor. What surprised her were the ribbons on both sides of the fans. They were like metal woven into liquid ribbons, and like the fans cut thought every thing with grace and accuracy. The fans were of a bright metallic silver colour, and the ribbons were a golden one, but they still looked like normal fans to the untrained eye. While the fight went on she experienced herself fighting and attacking in various ways and styles, which when recollecting the dream, she didn't remember Miho teaching her, or even mentioning it. The fight went on for some time but was interrupted by a tall man, whom seemed to have a lot of authority for both women stopped when he told them so - but anger was evident of both their faces. Before she could get a closer look at the man, however, she woke up, much to her irritation.
Still half asleep, after she woke up by the intensity and how real it seemed, she got a piece of paper and began t write down everything that was on the dream, not really knowing what she was writing down, but sure if was about the dream, with even some illustrations to help on some of the attacks and the weapons. By the time she was done the sun was already up, and all sleep was washed away from her mind.
I said that her training intensified when she started learning Miho's technique and even more with the extra aid lessons, well that was nothing compared with what happened when she received her weapons from Shakkuu Arai, the best crafts man at the time.
Shinya did finish designing her weapon in time, (and as soon as she handed them to Miho she felt as if the whole world was lifted from her shoulders) for she was plagued by the dream the entire week, although each time she had it there was more detail and more facts, but the end was always the same - she never saw that man's face. Miho took the designs and plans, and surprised her by not reading them, (claiming that those designs were her property and that she had no intentions to see them) and left with them to the nearby town, where Shakkuu had arranged to meet her, receive the plans and make the weapon, as it was he who forged Miho's fans, the first time and agreed to secrecy about them.
It took him one year to get it done, it was the best he could to, and the best he can do, could be considered perfection in everyway. Shinya was delighted when they arrived and wanted to experiment with them at once. For once she let her happiness show though the wall she built around her and, unfortunately, that caused her to hurt herself with her new weapon, as she was excessively careless.
For the next four years she trained with them, mastering they usage, mastering her sensei's technique and fighting against her, though not yet to win. Needless to say she received many cut, bruises during the course of those four years, but in the end she new it would be worth it, for it would make her better and stronger, physically, mentally and spiritually.
At the age of eleven and a half Miho said that she had nothing else to teach Shinya, which instantly brought a cold feeling to her chest. 'Was she sending her away? Where would she go? She couldn't send her away - she couldn't - she wasn't ready - no - ' Shinya thought desperately.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Cliffhanger!!! So what do you think will happen next? Will Shinya have to leave this early; after all she is only 11 yrs old!! Review and I might post the next chapter earlier!!
Oh, and if any of you know how to display italic, bold, underline, and all these word luxuries PLEASE tell me cause they won't appear on the net!!!
Hell's Angel
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Chapter Two: Growing up - the training
As soon as she stepped inside that large house, Miho, or Okaa-san as she began to call her, gave her some food and told her to go to sleep for tomorrow her training will begin in early morning. Something, which she found herself looking forward to what she didn't know, was how hard that training was supposed to be.
Out of all of her training, the one that she started on the next morning was the most boring and probably the hardest since she was only 2, though it looked as if her sensei omitted that fact. Miho, had at first, intended to just give her a stack of books and evaluate how well she could learn by herself. (She just appeared with a stack of thick books and said, "I want you to read, learn, understand and remember all these books say") Her original idea was postponed, however, when she found out that Shinya didn't know how to read or write. 'I should have known' she thought, 'I should have realised by the clothes that she was wearing and her age there was no possibility that Shinya could read or write' Therefore she had to delay her training plans, by exactly 6 months, as it was the time that took her to teach Shinya how to read and write. Mostly because of how strict she was and that Shinya was very eager in learning it, which made the process faster. Naturally she didn't just waste 6 months in that, during those moths she also made Shinya put to use all that she was learning, into reading and writing and memorizing.
Over those six months Shinya learned to not call Miho Okaa-san, only after training, or her lessons in this case, when she didn't seem to mind as much and in it's place learned to call her sensei or sensei-Miho. And although she was only a 2 year old she also noticed that her sensei wasn't someone that she could talk to like a mother, or what she thought a mother should be for her mother didn't really care for her for what she could notice. The fact that Miho didn't let her have any childhood also contributed to making Shinya keep to herself and become cold, not wanting to show her emotions and get hurt. Not wanting to expose herself and risk rejection. Not wanting to feel that pain and loneliness feeling that came whenever she was ignored. She became more observant, instead of talking she would rather observe and learn, as that was the method sensei-Miho first taught her. Even thought Miho took away her childhood, Shinya still had respect and a bit of caring towards her sensei. After all she was taking care of her and teaching her, and in regards to her childhood, people would say, 'We can't miss what we never had.' The time Shinya took studying those books was one year, put the half year she spent learning how to read and write we come to one and a half years after Miho found her. Finally satisfied with her knowledge in those books (Kenjutsu, Human body, weapons, mainly swords etc) she started to teach her Kenjutsu, practically.
There wasn't a particular style to it, mainly what a swordsman would need to attack and defend in order to win. Overall it was just as powerful, deadly, accurate and essential in learning how to fight as any particular style, for Miho believed you couldn't completely master any technique if you didn't know the origins and basics of where it came from.
Three years were spent in learning Kenjutsu, and during those years poor little Shinya suffered various bumps and bruises coming from different styles of training. As she reached the age of six and a half years Miho was finally satisfied with her performance in sword-fighting and deemed her ready to begin her training in her style of swords fighting, in which a real sword was not used but a fan with blades on it; the name was Umikaze.
[AN: Try imagining those Japanese fans used to blow wind on your face, but made of a special, bendable metal which can slash through anything.]
Miho began by showing Shinya her weapons; they were two custom made oriental fans. To the untrained eye they seemed ordinary but she could see the blades on the edges and noticed that they were very fine, and could probably cut many things, including human flesh. Nodding to show her understanding but grimaced when the thought of all the bruises and hardships she new she would have endure in order to learn that technique. 'At least I had three years of endurance practise before this' Shinya thought still frowning at the weapons.
That day she was taught the principles of sensei-Miho's technique, how it worked, and the weapons used. By far it was the most relaxing training she had since Miho found her, thankfully the bruises would be made another day.
Though before they started to put those principles into practise Miho told her something that didn't let her sleep as easily that night as it occupied her thoughts all day and night long. Miho said that she would have to design her own weapon; the only requirement for the technique was that it be a fan. - Occidental or oriental it didn't matter. Her deadline was until the end of the week, until then and the time needed to make her weapon they would train with normal fan, no blades, Shinya just had to decide which style they would be in. She had asked Miho what would happen if she couldn't come up with a design by the end of the week, and Miho answered. "Then you will leave this place and forget everything I ever taught you, for you will have proved unworthy of the technique." Needles to say that only helps Shinya in panicking more about the design and adding to her lack of sleep.
The next day Miho took her to a room she hadn't entered before and then opened a large cupboard with various fans, in all styles she could see, but she also noticed that they had no blades. For some strange reason she felt attracted to the occidental styled ones, probably because she had never seen them before, so, naturally she chose one of them.
Lessons were a bit strange for her as no contact was made directly since there were no blades; it was just the movement and grace in which she had to perform the technique. But she didn't mention anything to Miho, she new that if she did her sensei would find a way to make sure she would return every night with bruises from her training.
Miho also announced that she would also be having some other training procedures in which she would learn other aspects of fighting to aid her. She will be learning the God speed, which enabled her to attack at a very high speed, which only the trained eye could see. After mastering it she will learn Shukuchu [AN: For those who don't recognise this technique, it is the one Soujirou Seta used when he fights Kenshin in the Kyoto Arc], a technique that also enables her to attack but at a greater speed than the God speed. And the person doing it was impossible to see, except for the marks left on the ground by their feet, though you could diminish them with time. Another small technique is one that would not leave her dependent in any of her senses, which can be fatal for any swords man. There were various minor training involved, of which the pupil will have to learn how to fight without the aid of their developed six sense, without their hearing, without their eyesight and without their sense of touch. If the case came when all of these were mastered then the sensei might want to test the pupil by taking all four away and then also test will all three senses 'working', we can say.
Though she should get some time off her training to plan the design of her fan, she got none. In fact training intensified with all these aiding techniques and Miho's style of fighting. Shinya had no other option but to stay up late trying to come up with some sort of design suitable for a weapon. When no inspiration came to mind, Shinya decided to go to sleep, but her mind was restless, for her time was running out and she didn't want to go away without finishing her training.
But that night she had a strange dream, or premonition would suit better with hindsight. She dreamt that she was fighting another woman with night dark hair and orange eyes, but what caught her attention weren't on her opponent but the weapons in which she was fighting her with. There were two occidental-styled fans, which cut thought everything it came in contact with, except it's possessor. What surprised her were the ribbons on both sides of the fans. They were like metal woven into liquid ribbons, and like the fans cut thought every thing with grace and accuracy. The fans were of a bright metallic silver colour, and the ribbons were a golden one, but they still looked like normal fans to the untrained eye. While the fight went on she experienced herself fighting and attacking in various ways and styles, which when recollecting the dream, she didn't remember Miho teaching her, or even mentioning it. The fight went on for some time but was interrupted by a tall man, whom seemed to have a lot of authority for both women stopped when he told them so - but anger was evident of both their faces. Before she could get a closer look at the man, however, she woke up, much to her irritation.
Still half asleep, after she woke up by the intensity and how real it seemed, she got a piece of paper and began t write down everything that was on the dream, not really knowing what she was writing down, but sure if was about the dream, with even some illustrations to help on some of the attacks and the weapons. By the time she was done the sun was already up, and all sleep was washed away from her mind.
I said that her training intensified when she started learning Miho's technique and even more with the extra aid lessons, well that was nothing compared with what happened when she received her weapons from Shakkuu Arai, the best crafts man at the time.
Shinya did finish designing her weapon in time, (and as soon as she handed them to Miho she felt as if the whole world was lifted from her shoulders) for she was plagued by the dream the entire week, although each time she had it there was more detail and more facts, but the end was always the same - she never saw that man's face. Miho took the designs and plans, and surprised her by not reading them, (claiming that those designs were her property and that she had no intentions to see them) and left with them to the nearby town, where Shakkuu had arranged to meet her, receive the plans and make the weapon, as it was he who forged Miho's fans, the first time and agreed to secrecy about them.
It took him one year to get it done, it was the best he could to, and the best he can do, could be considered perfection in everyway. Shinya was delighted when they arrived and wanted to experiment with them at once. For once she let her happiness show though the wall she built around her and, unfortunately, that caused her to hurt herself with her new weapon, as she was excessively careless.
For the next four years she trained with them, mastering they usage, mastering her sensei's technique and fighting against her, though not yet to win. Needless to say she received many cut, bruises during the course of those four years, but in the end she new it would be worth it, for it would make her better and stronger, physically, mentally and spiritually.
At the age of eleven and a half Miho said that she had nothing else to teach Shinya, which instantly brought a cold feeling to her chest. 'Was she sending her away? Where would she go? She couldn't send her away - she couldn't - she wasn't ready - no - ' Shinya thought desperately.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Cliffhanger!!! So what do you think will happen next? Will Shinya have to leave this early; after all she is only 11 yrs old!! Review and I might post the next chapter earlier!!
Oh, and if any of you know how to display italic, bold, underline, and all these word luxuries PLEASE tell me cause they won't appear on the net!!!
Hell's Angel