Chapter 3 Sparing

One day while Tyson and the others were working on improving their beyblading skills, Amy and Hillary decided to occupy themselves by playing a game of crazy eights, and Hiro was practicing his martial arts, out of the blue he asks "Hey Amy why don't you come and spar with me like old times?" with an unusually suspicious smirk on his face, "Sorry but I don't think I could ever forgive myself if I embarrassed you in front of these boys here," said Amy, "Oh really?" exclaimed Hiro while unsheathing a samurai sword with a blade that was anything but blunt and began to make some of the guys nervous as he kept swinging it around vigorously over and over again, "Hiro you know I'll kick your butt," she said giving off her own smirk, "Ah, but you'll never really know unless you find out first hand," replied Hiro as he tossed Amy an odd shaped looking weapon with two slits, one on each opposite end of the black stick-like weapon, finally after letting out a long sigh Amy responds, "Fine just to prove that I'm right I will spar with you but don't think I'm gonna hold back just because your my older brother," as she grabbed the odd shaped stick, "Just give me a sec to change into my sparing clothes," she said before she ran into the doujo only to return ten minutes later wearing nothing but the color white in the form of a long-sleeved jumpsuit that ended right in the middle of her upper thighs and to top it all off a pair of pure white knee-high boots along with the odd pole-like weapon attached to her back vertically with a long strap that streched across her chest to hold the weapon in place.

"Well now, shall we begin?" asked Amy as she moved into the middle of the doujo's courtyard, "Lets," Hiro said as he got into his fighting stance with both his hands on the handle of his sword, just like an actual samurai would stand right before they were about to attack, while Amy was just standing there normally staring down her brother and secretly trying to predict his first move. "Very impressive," declared Hiro as he figured that his sister was of course following the number one rule of fighting, which was 'always keep them guessing', hence the not taking a stance part, because you pretty much give away what techniques your going to use if you do, but Hiro never really like that rule so he just did what came naturally to him, and I don't know about you but I'm actually starting to see the resemblace between Hiro and Tyson now. "Well at least some things never change," Amy said refering to Hiro, "This'll be easier than I thought," exclaimed Amy who really knew better but just wanted to piss Hiro off.

"Ready?" asked Hiro, "Ready," exclaimed Amy.Next thing Hiro knew Amy was right in front of him with her fist heading straight towards his face, but he luckily dodged it at the last minute by turning to the side only to have Amy bend down on her knees and stick one leg out so as grab hold of his and trip Hiro, but again unsucsessful as he just barely dodged that attack as well by simply doing a backflip right when her lowercalf was about to make contact with his legs and all the while still gripping the sword in one hand. And even after that quick charge neither Hiro nor Amy had even broken a sweat. So they began again except this time Hiro was the one to suprise Amy by appearing right in front of her with a sword held in one hand on the right side preparing to slice Amy in half vertically, but to no avail as it ended up only slicing the air for Amy had up and vanished. As Hiro started to regain his senses, after charging so fast, so as to train his mind to fully be aware of his surroundings in order to discover where his little sister had dissapeared to, he failed to notice the dark figure behind him with two short blades in each hand and a glare that just screamed death, as the figure was preparing to slice Hiro's head off, Tyson's grandpa suddenly appeared exclaiming rather calmly "That's enough Amy," and thats when Hiro finally took notice of the dark shadow standing behind him just as it replied back "yes grandfather," and soon after there was no more dark figure looming over Hiro, only Amy in her white jumpsuit with two short bladed swords in each hand.

Now at first Tyson and the others thought nothing of it when Hiro asked Amy to spar with him because they all knew what she was going to say simply because she had been giving him the exact same answer for the past couple of weeks now, so they just learned to ignore it after figuring out that there wasn't much interestin seeing just a brother annoy his sister each and every day by asking her the same question again and again, but only when Amy finally agreed to spar with him did they decide to pay attention again only this time with newfound interest. Once Amy came out with her sparing clothes on did Kai once again sense that unknown characteristic about her that he just couldn't understand. So in order to make room for the two they all decided to sit on the edge of the outside walkway, plus it would also give them a better view of the fight to come.

"Do you really think Amy was serious when she said that she could beat Hiro?" asked Kenny as he still couldn't quite figure out weather or not Amy was joking when it came to certain things, "Nah, she couldn't possibly, and besides I've seen Hiro practice and even by my standards he is pretty good, and this time I'm not just talking about his beyblading," said Ray knowing full well how much potential Hiro had, I mean it only made sense that Tyson ended up being the worlds greatest beyblader, just look at who he had helping him along the way, even now there are still times when Hiro ends up teaching Tyson something new about beyblading. "I dunno you guys, isn't the number one rule of beyblading, 'never underestimate your opponent'?" Hillary said after hearing Ray gloat on about Hiro, for she knew what Hiro and Amy were both capable of, but when it came to fighting there was no comparing the two, Amy was always going to excel beyond expectations, but she was kind of hoping that none of the boys would take her comment seriously, because if any of the guys did find out what Amy had really been doing those 6 years away then Hillary would be responsible for giving Amy's personal secret away after she trusted Hillary enough not to, but she soon just shrudged it off figuring that there was nothing more left for Hillary to do except just relax and enjoy the showdown.

But little did Hillary know that someone did take that little comment she made seriously. At first Kai couldn't quite grasp the full meaning of what she was really trying to say, but later on after the spar was over and everyone still wasn't quite over their moment of shock, Kai began to try and put it all together, like it was just some giant puzzle for him to solve, but Kai still felt like there was some pieces missing, well that and the fact that he was never really good at puzzles. So for now Kai just kept his thoughts to himself incase his clues might cause trouble which he really wasn't in the mood for.

OMG that was by far the hardest chapter I have written so far. That battle scene took for ever to write seeing as how I'm a perfectionist I had to get everything right, which was not easy since I don't know the first thing about fighting. Please R&R as always. Arigatou!