Steady Blade [Eiko - JT]

[Rei Takagi]

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{A Note For The Grader}Hey, yo, gimme that fat SP for this.

It would not be a stretch to say that life at the Academy was hitting a strange mix of monotony and unordinary for one of the students. Academy life was...different for Rei--he had never really been involved in much formal education. Each class to him was...foreign ground. Yet, when everything was so different, it turned out that nothing was different in the end. So, today was a Zanjutsu class...He had caught word that today was going to be a touch different from the usual class as there was going to be actual practice bouts. 

That, alone, was enough to strike a nerve or two! Seriously, he hadn't actually been in a fight before, so it was entirely foreign territory. The routine so far was relatively simple. Enter the classroom, pick up a weapon, take a seat. A wooden bokken found it's way into Rei's hand as he took a seat along with a good number of his classmates! There was idle chatter around him, but he did his damnedest to tune it out once he had figured out it was regarding the class--he had already known what it was about.

The question was, when would they start? And what the hell were they doing, at that? ...Where was the instructor, at that? It was nearly time for the class to begin, so ordinarily you'd see them in the room by now, would you not? Purple eyes scanned the room...

[yozoraeiko]

Eiko walked out alongside two of his classmates and the instructor. Each carried a wooden bokken fit to match their zanpaktou in size, the others using standard sized katana and Eiko using a noticeably smaller wakizashi. Katsudori-sensei went forward, his large physique towering over Eiko and still larger than his other two classmates before he began to speak. "Alright class!" The unreasonably booming voice of Katsudori-sensei began. "Today I want to give you a chance to see what your aims are! To that end I've enlisted the help of your upper classman in order to have a friendly sparring match! Don't worry they aren't top of their class so they shouldn't humiliate you to badly!"



Eiko and his classmates eyes sharpened at the direct insult. Not that it was particularly wrong but it wasn't exactly necessary. Regardless, it was going to be a simple day and way to improve all of their grades so its not like they were in a position to complain. "Alright Everyone, any volunteers? Takagi-san! Why don't you and Yozora-san go at it! Jiro-san! you can spar with Tendo-san! Fuji-san! you can go at Mifumi-san! Everyone else, make sure your paying attention and taking notes!" Katsudori-sensei belowed not really giving anyone an opportunity to volunteer but just picking off students as Eiko sighed before looking around to see who on earth this Takagi person was.



"Probably someone more worthwhile than you," the voice in Eiko's head echoed as his eyebrow twitched at the pointless insult, not able to retort in any way because he was in class. Regardless of the voices in his head and outside his head Eiko walked over to his section of the dojo off to the side and waited for whoever he was going to fight, an annoyed but indifferent look on his face that made it seem like Eiko might rip the head off whoever this Takagi person was.