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You VS You

Oct 03, 2009 14:54

Characters: Ganju, Hanatarou
When: October 3, 2009
Where: Academy Training Grounds
Rating: PG
Summary: Ganju agrees to teach the pipsqueak how to fight like a man.

( You must be swift as the coursing river! )

[soul society], yamada hanatarou, shiba ganju

Comments 10

ganju_shiba October 18 2009, 07:49:11 UTC

"Damn straight it's not!" Ganju shouted in agreement. Then he grinned, leaning down with his hand shielding the side of his mouth in faux-confidentiality. "But it don't hurt one bit to gloat a little after you win." He grinned wolfishly, then straightened back up and withdrew his zanpakutou. It looked more like a meat cleaver than a sword, and it wasn't terribly long. But Ganju knew he wasn't the only one in Soul Society with a short weapon. Plenty of others had swords the size of a knife in their released states, and it made them easy to conceal from enemy eyes. Hell, most people wouldn't have imagined Ganju to be a shinigami unless he wore the robes, and he preferred to wear his hand-tailored Shiba battle costume when it came down to it. That would change in a few more years, but until then ( ... )

iwillmendyou October 20 2009, 23:45:18 UTC

"You want me to what!?" He looked back and forth between the zanpakuto in Ganju's hand and the sharp grin on the man's face. "C-come at you. Right. Um." Hisagomaru felt heavy in Hanatarou's hand as he drew his own zanpakuto. Stand up straight, shoulders back, one foot back, present as narrow of a target as possible. He stood like an actor trying to find his mark while someone continued yelling from the side ( ... )

ganju_shiba October 27 2009, 19:02:30 UTC

Eh? What was wrong with the kid? Ganju's big grin pulled downward into a frog-like frown, blinking widened eyes as he watched his temporary pupil practically freeze up at the idea. Well, of course. He was a healer, probably hated the idea of hurting anybody ( ... )

iwillmendyou October 28 2009, 23:35:08 UTC

Hanatarou took a few stumbling steps forward after Ganju stepped to the side. Easy enough it was barely an effort at all and Hanatarou still had to catch himself to keep from tumbling over. "Ah... I'm sorry, I'm still trying to... um..." His voice dropped down to a mumble when he took that wooden sword and put Hisagomaru carefully away. "I guess that's the wrong sort of trying?"

He tried again to assume the form drilled into his head by previous instructors and to hold that lesson in his head. "You ate my sister," Hanatarou repeated. He paused and blinked. "But... I don't have a sister..." He shook his head. Not an instructor in this moment or his friend, but an opponent. Someone he had to defeat, not try and please. He tightened his grip on the hilt of the wooden sword and tried again.

ganju_shiba November 14 2009, 22:53:21 UTC

"Don't change the subject!" Ganju pointed dramatically. "You don't have a sister 'cause I ate her! Now c'mon, or I'll eat you too! Like a crispy lil' peesa fried yam!" He put on his scariest grin...which admittedly wasn't that much different from his normal grin...and thumped his chest with both fists. Bring it on.

He could see that Hanatarou's expression was fixed and seemed a bit more focused. Uncertain, sure, but he was starting to get a little more bold. Ganju stuck out his jaw, all smiles and inwardly grim determination. Hanatarou needed some confidence. That meant Ganju had to get whacked a few times.

But c'mon. It was Hanatarou. As if anything he did had the potential to inspire fear! It wasn't hard to ignore his instinctive response to the swing of a sword (which was to run, very fast, and stay far out of range of anyone more powerful than him), simply because it seemed unlikely that Hanatarou would ever summon up the guts to administer more than a light, tentative tap to Ganju's shoulder.