Its How You Use It(Alkaid and Kaen SP Training)

"Should be arriving any minute now..." The female captain thought in her mind as she traveled from rooftop to rooftop to her destination. Alkaid had requested that the third seat of the seventh division, Kaen Youji, meet her in the courtyard of her division for a sparring match. She had latley been pulling the records of the seated officers, vice captains and captains she had and came across his file with interest. It had seemed that he, unlike Alkaid, was born in Soul Society and was one of the stronger seated officers currently. As expected of the seventh division. Not only in strength, it had seemed the male shinigami had quite a bit speed on him, perhaps even slightly faster then Alkaid even though it was not a large marginal to make a giant difference. Still, he would prove a worthy opponent to her, his file indicating his usage of several fighting styles from the human world in which Alkaid found quite odd. A "pure blood" shinigami learning many human fighting styles rather then settling for one or two to become a master in, like Alkaid? Kaen did indeed have some years on her, a little over ten, but Alkaid had spent her shinigami life honing and perfecting her hakudo fighting style.

Alkaid was currently wearing her custom-made shinigami captain robes. This consisted of a short top of a black kimono with white lines outlining it and a white string tied to secure it, the back of it is accented by a large white fan with gold designs of her squad's symbol on each of the fins of the fan. She also had a sash, which resembles a fox's tail, the top of the tail being white while the rest of it is a light orange, around her waist which represents her agility and love for speed. She wore four large triangle shaped open white skirts that are next to eachother and have gold lines going across each of them, each line connecting to the next. As for her bottom half, she wears knee high black boots along with black karate gee shorts. Each side of the legs of the boots have several small purple triangles going up along it. The bottom of the boots are a fiery red color. The tops of the boots are actually open, making them zōri like so they make almost zero sound when a step is taken and the sound heard is barley audio able. They also have 5 leather like straps on them to secure the boots.
Her zanpakuto, a wakashi, was sheathed and located on her lower back, strapped there horizontally.

Moments later, after one last leap off a rooftop, she arrived in the courtyard and spotted the back of Kaen's head, him waiting patiently in it. "Arrived earlier then I thought." She murmured in her head as she traveled through the air, seconds later being right above his head and traveling down on it. Casually, she landed on the male's head and bent over a bit, looking down at his face. "Greetings, Kaen Youji, thank you for arriving." She stated with a light smile on her, lightly leaping off his head and turned in mid air, landing several feet away from and facing him. She examined the male with her eyes, looking up and down him as she crossed her arms behind her back, a habit she inherited from Old Lightning when he was still alive. She was liking what she was seeing, he matched exactly how the records stated him as. She wondered to herself if Sayuri would create a hologram system for their files so they could see the person right then and there from the file rather then having to have a mental image in their mind as to what the person looked like. Oh well.

Alkaid watched with interest as he took an unusual stance, guarding his face with his fists while tightly having his arms against his body. It was similar to a boxer's arms stance, but she noted that his foot stance was more of a martial artist, for a boxer would stand shoulder width apart and parallel. Odd, combining these two kinds of styles. This meant to Alkaid that she would have to strike the shinigami from multiple areas that were unguarded. Luckily for her, aiming for exact positions on the body was something of her specialty, enjoying to exploit the disabling points on the body. Anyway, he was now ready, and he was giving her the pleasure of performing the first strike of the match. Good. "Right." She uttered with a grin, sliding her right foot back behind her and stood with her left side facing the male. He rose her arms up infront of her, keeping her elbows locked against her hips and had her knuckles aimed at Kaen as she kept her arms slightly bent so they weren't fully extended out of place. It was now time to launch her attack.

Kicking off of the ground, she sprinted at the male, straight forward at him. Nothing special, no zig zagging, nothing fancy so far, just straight forward closing the distance between the two in a few seconds. In hardly anytime, she was only a couple of feet away from Kaen. When she came within this range, she suddenly came to a halt, while twisting herself leftward and rose her right leg up from the ground into a chambering position. This was to maintain control of her kick when she performed it, in case she had to halt the kick for a reason. Swiftly, in one snapping position, she performed a high round-house kick to the side of the male's head, aiming the flat top of her black, leather, knee high boots at it. As she performed this, she kept her hand guard up, in case the male planned to deliver a counter blow. It was meagerly a testing blow, to see if the male could keep up with her.

Of course she stopped and chambered her kick in a swift matter, it was for one word: control! If she threw a wild kick at the male, or any opponent whats so ever, then she would not be able to counteract any actions performed against her during the attack. Kaen had gotten it wrong on why she had kept her elbows locked at her hips; it was purely defensive. Since she had done this, she had the ability to use her arms in any form of defense that would be used to block an incoming blow or in any way she chose if she choose. However, Kaen had at least reacted accordingly to the attack, in a way that Alkaid had wanted. Her instincts kicking in, she used the driving force of the push on her leg to her full advantage. Twisting her hips rightward during the push, she used its force to spin back from her opponent slightly. Spinning clockwise, she brought her right leg down in a low arcing motion as she was performing the spin, using the momentum to increase her speed beyond its norm. The maneuver now positioned the back of her right leg facing the leg in which Kaen was attempting to sweep with. Alkaid's aim with this sweeping motion with right leg was to slam the heel of it into side of Kaen's sweeping foot.

With performing these actions, it would be timed in which her heel would collide with the side of his foot, the sheer speed of it pushing it off course and to the side since the focus of his attack was simply back and forward. Still using one leg, the female leapt back and landed on both of her feet away from the male to assume her fighting guard once again, having misdirected his sweep. She swiftly began circling the male, looking at the strong points of his guard. The male no doubt would expect her to find a weakpoint in it, however, could he correctly guess which one she would go for? She easily spotted several points on him that she could use to her advantage, it was all just a matter of time. For now, she was the one keeping her distance from the male shinigami, patiently waiting. She was in no hurry to end the sparring match at all, she wanted to see what he could perform offensively against her. She WANTED him to attack her.

Alkaid was enlightened that the male finally made a move to attack her, she wanted this. Why was this? Because she already knew how she was going to counterattack him. Her eyes locked onto his chest area, dead center where his shoulders were aligned with his chest, she was able to see both his upper and lower body into action. Seeing the lunging punch coming, Alkaid judged the distance inbetween them, leaning back slightly so it was just enough out of his reach, that is if he was aiming to punch her in the face. Still, she only had to bend back a bit, so it did not interrupt her seeing the male's next action. The punch stopped a few inches where her head originally was, proving that it was indeed a fake and Alkaid saw the lift of the back leg, indicating a kick of course. It wasn't until halfway of the kick reaching its destination did she execute a maneuver, vanishing from sight when it right as it was just about to hit her; Kaen's target destination. A shunpo, this was what Alkaid had prepared for against the brutal fighter Kaen. Alkaid's fighting style revolved around of course evasion and attacking weak points of a person's body, no matter how strong they are. That was it. She appeared in a second just above the spot she was in, her feet half a foot above Kaen's head. As soon as Alkaid appeared out of shunpo, she kicked forward with her left leg, intentionally nailing Kaen straight in the forward with the bottom of her boot as she was dropping down from the air.

The attack would land right at the instant Kaen's sweep had finished fully, the stepping technique and retaliation kick being swift to the point that by the time Kaen saw it, her boot would be a mere inch from his head and it would be too late to move. Their speeds were too similar and Kaen's senses were just average. In any case, the kick would propel Alkaid back ten feet, putting distance once again between the two shinigami, Alkaid resuming her guard stance with her hands extended out infront of her, clenching her fists. "You're not using you strength properly, Kaen Youji, you obviously have speed and strength so use it." Alkaid stated, a fierce look in her eyes. Alkaid could already tell something from Kaen; he did not know his own strength. Alkaid knew that she would be matched against stronger foes, that is why she based her training on speed and pointing out flaws on a person. Kaen however had the strength and speed to defeat opponents but he was not using correctly!
Reiatsu: 1950/2000