Kenjutsu dojo (P)(T)

Battojutsu Stance
Rank: E Rank
Effect: Allows the use of Battojutsu forms
Special: None
Drawbacks: None
Description: The practitioner moves into a bow stance, their main hand gripping the hilt of the sword and their offhand resting half way down the sheath; they stand slightly crouched, able to easily move to a kneeling of standing position for their forms.
Restrictions: Must have a Senpai/Sensei of a Kenjutsu Dojo to learn.

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”Ok Rana, u have mastered the first stance in good time. But we are only starting your training for the day. We have a long way to go before we are done.” the man said with a smile. Rana was ready for the next stance. “ok now the next stance is like the first, u are going to crouch again and bend your knees. Then you are going to put your hand right hand over your hilt. And your left hand half way down your sheath. Now let’s see it boy.” the male senpai said. Rana wiped his hands on his pants, getting the sweat off his hand. The young shinobi was not used to handling the Katana, but he would get better in time.

Rana took the stance to the best of his idea based on what his senpai said. It sounded a lot like the stance before. So Rana bent his knees and slightly bowed his back. He placed his right hand over his hilt careful not to put his hand on the end of the sword. And put his left hand on the sheath, and once again the senpai circled him. inspecting his stance. He man then said ”you need to move your hand half way down his sheath. You could also bend your knees a little more. It will make u more stable and less likely to be knocked over.

Rana bent his knees more and move his left hand halfway down the sheath. When he was done the senpai circled him once more and said ”Now this stance is used for attacking as the other stance I taught u is used for defensive movements. These are the basics of this fighting style. And u have done well in the short time u have been here. Now let’s see the stance twenty times, Just like before.” Rana stood and stretched is legs. Then he began the repetitive motion on entering an standing after the motion. When he was done his legs where tied but it had become a second nature to enter the stance. Rana was not used to all the physical activity, he was never the TaiJutsu type. But it was his once big weakness. So he was determined to learn all he could.

Reflex Training
Rank: D, C and B Rank
Effect: D Rank - Improves evasive and deflection/blocking skill marginally. C Rank - Improves evasive and deflection/blocking skill slightly. B Rank - Improves evasive and deflection/blocking skill moderately
Special: None
Drawbacks: Cannot learn Quick Strike training.
Description: The practitioner is put through a series of rigorous repetitive movements to improve their ability to reflexively react to attacks by evading or deflecting/blocking with their sword. As they develop their training, their speed and reflexes slowly increase.
Restriction: Must have a Senpai/Sensei of a Kenjutsu Dojo to learn.

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“Ok Rana, not that u have mastered the basic stances we move on to reflex training. You job is to evade, block, or deflect my attacks.” the senpai said drawing his sword. Rana readied himself getting into Iaijutsu Stance. Putting his right hand over his hilt and his left hand on the top of the sheath. ” I am ready senpai.” The young shinobi said waiting for the senpai to strike. The senpai and the ninja boy stood there for a moment staring at on another. Then the senpai struck. The man raised his sword above his head and brought it down on the boy before him. The shinobi seeing the blade coming quickly went to a kneeling position and moved all his weight to his right, rolling out of the way of the blade As it swished through the air where he had been standing.

After the dodge he came up and quickly and entered the Iaijutsu Stance. He did not have much time to think because as the senpai missed him. he swung the sword to hit right, aiming for the shinobi’s face. Rana quickly pulled the sword from his sheath and with it half way in the sheath and blocked the blade before it had time to cut his head in half. Rana wanted to swing his sword back at him, to attack back and not just defend. But he was training reflexes not attack speed so he held the feeling and focused on blocking. He put the sword back into the sheath as was the normal for the fighting style he was learning.

Rana stood in his defensive stance waiting for the next move from the senpai. ” that was well done” the senpai said. Rana was proud that the senpai had complimented him. The senpai used the moment to attack. He swung the sword towards Rana’s left side. Rana having been distracted by the man’s compliment was slow to react. He tried to roll out of the way as he had before, but his slow reaction made it hard to dodge. The senpai’s sword struck him in the left arm with the flat of his blade and gave him a large welt on the arm.

The senpai stood after the strike and said ”in battle you can not let anything distract your concentration. That is key to any battle, if you let it it could cost you your life. And if not your life then possibly the battle, and sometimes both.” as the man spoke Rana rubbed his arm where the sword had hit him. ”I’m sorry senpai, it will not happen again.” the boy shinobi said taking his stance once more and readying himself for the next torrent of blades. “” I’m glad you understand. It is vital…” then the senpai then swung at him.

The blade came in low for his ankles, Rana rolled to the right, avoiding the blade. The shinobi had not let the senpai’s words distract him as he had before. He was ready when he came out of the roll. And he was glade he was because the senpai was not letting up. the senpai swung to his left did a compete turn and swung for Rana’s head. The boy drew his bade and blocked the attack with the flat of it. The amount of forse behind the attack knocked the boy over, and he fell on his back. ”u must also remember to keep your balance wile blocking.” the senpai said. His sword as still drawn and he swung down at the boy laying on his back.

Rana quickly rolled to his left and the blade missed him my inches, she jumped up and entered the Iaijutsu Stance one more. Trying to prove to himself ans much as his senpai that he was not giving up yet.

Mae (Front)
Rank: D Rank
Effect: Deflects/blocks a weak (D Rank or less) frontal attack.
Special: None
Drawbacks: None
Description: Commencing from a kneeling position, the practitioner draws their sword to forestall a frontal attack as a simple defense then sheathes.
Restrictions: Must have a Senpai/Sensei of a Kenjutsu Dojo to learn; must have Reflex Training (D Rank) or Quick Strike Training (D Rank).

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Rana was ready for the next jutsu and waited on his senpai to explain it to him. ”The next thing I am teaching u is a stance called Mae, and it is a frontal block. You will start in the Iaijutsu Stance, and then go into a kneeling position. You will then pull your sword and block an oncoming attack and then sheath your sword. Not let’s see you do it without an attacker, and if u do well we will try it with me attacking you.”

Rana took a step back and entered the Iaijutsu Stance; the boy closed his eyes and pretended an attacker was charging him. As the pretend attacker began to get close, the boy ninja drew the Katana from his sheath and blocked the would be attack. The boy then sheathed the sword, or that is how it went in his head. Instead what really happened was while trying to sheath he missed it and his sword almost impaled it into the ground. He put the sword into the sheath and looked at his senpai, the man stood there shaking his head.

”Again.” the man said, still shaking his head at the boy. With the sword back in its home and the boy still in the Iaijutsu Stance. He began the defensive technique once more. Going into a kneeling position and drawing the katana, he brought it out of the sheath in a straight line and turned it slightly to the left. So when the sword was used to block, it would not damage the blade of the sword. He pretended to catch a blade on the flat side of his Katana, and slid the three foot sword back into the sheath in one fluid motion. This time it had gone flawless and he looked over at the sensei waiting for a approval. The man gave him a nod and approached him with his left hand on the sheath of his sword.

The sensei had the boy stand and prepare himself. He entered the Iaijutsu Stance and stood there waiting for the sensei to make a move. The boy stood there for a minute and waited terrified of the man. Then the sensei took a step forward and Rana knew now was the time. He quickly knelt and drew the katana from its sheath, and turned it to the right. He was in the nick of time, as he turned the blade the sensei’s sword stuck his katana with full force, if the boy was not in the stance he would have been knocked over by the power behind the attack. When the sensei removed the sword from his and put it back in his sheath. The boy did the same, making sure to get the sword in the sheath this time.

”good again.” the sensei said stepping back from the boy. The boy left the kneeling position and went back into the Iaijutsu Stance. The man drew his sword and raised it over his head. Rana knew this was not going to be easy to stop. He quickly dropped to the kneeling position and drew the sword and held it just over his head, turning the blade as to not damage the blades edge. and caught the Sensei’s sword on the flat of his blade. He caught the blow close to the hilt of his sword to reduce the pushback of the blade and stop his sword form smaking him on the head. When the sensei pulled his sword back the boy ninja put his back in the sheath.

Rana quickly realized that the man was not done and came at him again. This time from the right side. He was still kneeling and was quick to draw the katana, as he pulled the blade from its sheath he pulled it up quick, aiming the tip of the blade at the ground. He caught the blade lower on his sword then he had meant to. And the sensei’s sword slid to the ground. The man nodded and sheathed his sword, and Rana did the same. ”that was a nice block, u are getting it quite well.” the man said with a slight grin on his face.