There ain't no fear, there ain't no hope

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Who: Ginia Solana (whiskytraitorfirefight, Hatake Kakashi (ura_no_ura), OPEN to spectators
What: Sparring and feeling out skills
When: 8 AM, Monday 02/10
Where: The Battle Dome
Summary: Ginia agrees to spar with Kakashi so he can gauge her skills.
Rating: PG-13 (Violence, language)


[As agreed, Ginia is in the lobby of the Battle Dome a few minutes before eight AM. She stretches lightly and paces around the room, limbering up and focusing. Should set up a room or was that something he wanted to do? She mulls lightly over before leaving the room to his decision.

Her mind is focused, but she's leery. She knows this is a test, that all she can do is show what she knows, and everything else falls into place. It's not a matter of how good a fighter he is, it's all insignificant. It still feels like she's walking into a trap.]

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OBSERVATION DECK

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[Grab a drink, grab a snack, get your bets in because the show is about to begin.]

[ura_no_ura]

[ Of course, just like before, Kakashi's late.

He has a bad habit of being late. Never arriving anywhere on time.

Sometimes he thinks he needs to undo this habit, especially when it's one he had picked up in memory of Obito. But it's hard to break a habit you've developed over the course of half your life. Sixteen years is a long time to be late, and today, Kakashi strolls through the door exactly seventeen minutes late.

He's in full uniform, as usual, and raises a hand in greeting when he spots Ginia. ]

Morning.

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[By the time Kakashi rolls in, Ginia's taken a seat and begun listening to music on her phone. She's dressed in simple workout attire; cargo pants, long-sleeved shirt, hair braided and pinned against her head, a knife at her back and one in her boot. When she spots him, she nods back and calmly pauses her music and removes her headphone.]

Morning. I thought I would let you choose the room.

[ura_no_ura]

Mmm, I think it might be better if you do the honors, actually.

[ He's a little curious what she'd pick, after all. What sort of environment. There's a lot that you can tell about a person depending on what kind of environment they prefer to fight in, after all. ]

Though, before we get to that, I wanted to suggest that we do this in a few stages.

[ He pauses to let her absorb this. ]

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[Her room, her choices. That she can work with. Though stages. She gives a small lift of her chin, watching him.]

What do you have in mind?

[ura_no_ura]

Well, to really get a good sense of your skills, I think we'll need to run a full battle simulation that begins with hand-to-hand combat, but can lead you through traps, multiple enemy attacks, and more.

[ A pause. ]

So I think we'll probably need to program [that's the correct term, right? ] some guns and other weapons you're used to using into the environment, and make sure we also include safety parameters to protect us against taking too much damage.

I'm sorry this is stupid long whoops

[reviling]

[Levi's been spending a lot of time at the battle dome lately, practicing mostly with other weapons (guns, knives, swordplay) against a different kind of enemy than he's used to (people). They have to be frugal with the use of the gear, if only because gas can be hard to come by. It shows up rarely, and he keeps at least one canister extra if possible, but that's usually all he's been able to hoard at one time.

He's left it behind today in favor of practicing dual-wielding swords against human enemies generated by the simulator. It's not the same, but he's developing a few techniques that work for him.

So he's taking a break, getting water from the obnoxious machine in the hallway (he'd all but destroyed one the first time trying to get it to work) when he happens to peer in on the other room, somewhat surprised to see two people whom he's interacted with more significantly than many others in Luceti so far.

He watches for quite a while, actually.]

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[Ginia considers the proposal and nods, mind already taking situations into considerations. She heads over to the console and begins programming a room.

She picks an abandoned city, roughly four blocks in area, including a small in city park with little cover, buildings of various sizes, and some structural damage, rubble, and abandoned vehicles. For traps, she sets mines, unstable ground, and an assortment of armed - knives and guns - mercenaries in random locations. No changes to the safety settings - anything that would kill a person will stop the simulation.

When she finishes, she steps aside to let Kakashi look over the room.]

[ura_no_ura]

[ A city.

Interesting.

Given what he knows of Ginia's skillset, it makes sense too, given the abundance of hiding spots and environmental explosives, such as abandoned vehicles that still have some gas in their tanks.

He nods and gestures towards the room with an open hand. ]

After you.

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[Ginia makes one more modification - checking her loadout, checking the loadout of the enemies - before finalizing the room. She heads toward it, stepping back into a familiar environment. The sky is overcast, the weather mild but with a small breeze.

There's a chest sitting in the back of an open van by the entrance. She glances at Kakashi, already anticipating an attack, and heads to the van. Her cellphone is set down in the back of the van for safety. She straps on a bullet-resistant vest, hip holster for her glock, secures four magazines in the pockets and carrying straps, puts in ear protection, and a helmet.]

[ura_no_ura]

[ Fortunately (?) for Ginia, Kakashi doesn't intend to attack, instead, strolling into the open after her and reaching into his utility pouch to pull out a brightly colored book.

He did say that they would begin with hand-to-hand combat, after all, and had more or less expected that she'd come at him first.

By all appearances, it looks like Kakashi's just hanging out in the middle of the open... reading. ]

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[Properly suited up for combat, Ginia turns to Kakashi. It surprises her to see him idly reading, yet at the same time, it doesn't if only because she's used to training against lax-acting opponents. It forces her into the position of striking first, of leaving herself open and revealing her style.

She advances slowly, circling, sizing him up. She knows he's a ninja and so she expects speed. She expects tricks and dishonesty, but she expects that from everyone. His vest covers his wings, but a back shot is too easy. If she had the opportunity to strike someone from behind, she'd shoot them, knife them, or strangle them until they were down.

Attacking from the front has just as many problems. He'll see her straight on - she knows he's not distracted by the book. It'll leave her too open too.

So the sides. No telling how padded the vest is so no torso strikes.

Ginia advances with caution, each step measured, hands up for protection.]

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[The room, of Ginia's choosing and design, is a glimpse into the battlefield she's grown up on. It's a cityscape with tall office buildings, parking garages, smaller buildings holding local businesses, open lots. Lamp posts, traffic lights, and the occasional tree line the sidewalk as abandoned cars sit on the asphalt road.

A city park cuts through the center, some trees, statues dotting the area. At the center is a water feature set into the ground, holes drilled into a brick walkway shooting up streams of water at set intervals.

It's an abandoned city, a wartorn city. Glasses are broken or boarded up, doors locked and barred, some buildings bombed out husks with unstable ceilings and foundations. Mines lay hidden on the streets as in some areas, in other, large pits cut across streets.

The city is both a testament to the ingenuity of man and their own self-destructive power. A world where the monsters aren't man-eating titans, but humanity themselves.]

[reviling]

[he watches the scene below, mostly standing at the window instead of sitting, and making note of any apparent strengths and weaknesses of each, different techniques and moves that he could imitate or avoid.]

[ura_no_ura]

[ Kakashi doesn't adjust his stance at all.

If anything, he slouches a little more, eye moving across the length of the page as he reads, thumb lifting to flick to the next page. His other hand isn't visible, tucked away in the pocket of his vest. ]

You know, if you're hoping to land a hit, you're going to have to come at me with killing intent.

[ Said lightly as he continues to read. ]

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[Killing intent. Ginia's expression doesn't flicker as she sizes him up, then dashes in. Her right forearm goes in to sweep the book and his hands upward as her left fist goes in for a punch to his stomach. She has her knife, but she's not ready to pull it just yet, not on an opening move.]

[ura_no_ura]

[ Kakashi feels her coming first before he sees her. Senses it in the movement of the air, hears it in the intake of breath she takes just as she prepares to throw the punch, then sees the arm.

He dodges, leaning back to avoid her arm smacking against the book, then ducks under her fist, spinning to pivot around her so he's facing her back.

He makes no attempt to strike her just yet, though he does pull his hand out of his vest pocket to turn one more page.

This little game has only just begun. ]

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[Even if she expected speed, she didn't except a reaction that quickly. But the battle's just begun and it's not about winning. It's about showing what she has and keeping a game face. There's no winning today, just a valuable learning experience.

Ginia turns, intending on driving an elbow into him.]

[ura_no_ura]

[ Her speed had increased with the force of the turn, and the elbow comes in fast, but not fast enough. With the closeness of their proximity, dodging makes less sense than blocking. Kakashi catches her elbow with the hand that had just turned the page of his book, then tightens his grip on it and uses her elbow as leverage as she turns half-way, to give her a hard yank back, with every intent of destabilizing her, so he can sweep her feet out from underneath her. ]

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[If there's one thing from her childhood Ginia is glad for, it's over a decade of dancing. Even as he tries to pull her off balance, Ginia moves easily and steadily, stepping in and bringing up her left knee with the intent of catching him in the crotch or groin. Her left arm comes up defensively to protect herself.]

[ura_no_ura]

[ Yeah, that's not happening.

Kakashi sees it coming and he jumps up, the sole of his foot striking the top of her knee and using it as leverage to sail up over her head in a flip which has him neatly landing a couple of feet behind her.

To her credit, he's snapped his book shut and has tucked it away though. ]

Ha~ah, if you keep coming at me like that with such soft blows, you're not gonna get anywhere.

[ In other words: take him a little more seriously. He knows you're armed. ]

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[That's... actually pretty impressive. But there's no time to gawk in a fight. Ginia turns on a dime, both feet coming down flat on the ground.

She has her gun, but at their present distance and his speed, he'd see her draw before she could even fire. No, she's saving her ammo for when distance is at her advantage. There's the other combatants waiting in the city too, already getting into place.

Since he seems set on the defensive, all Ginia can do is close the distance between them. She moves on in, hands up defensively. She lunges, feigning a punch toward the face with her right fist before kicking out at his knee.]

[ura_no_ura]

[ He raises a hand up and blocks the punch, then jumps right over the kick. So far, from what she's been able to exhibit, her unarmed taijutsu level is about the same level of a freshly-minted genin. She would probably do well to work with someone like Lee, who can give her more to work with, especially if she doesn't have any ability to control chakra.

Her strategy to target the knee was meant to disable him, but had little effect, since he saw it coming, and was able to evade.

The moment his left foot meets the ground, it's Kakashi's turn to finally go on the offensive, right knee coming up in a blow towards her side, opting not to feint a punch. He wants to see how well she does with an obvious hit before attempting anything else, just to establish her baseline. ]

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[It's an obvious hit and so Ginia takes the easy answer; she steps away from the hit. A fight is all about the conservation of energy. Don't take unnecessary hits, don't get too careless, out last your opponent and put them down or get away.

Ginia goes on the defensive, watching his movements, planning out the possibilities and the counters.]

[ura_no_ura]

[ The moment she shifts her weight to step back from the hit, Kakashi drops out to sweep her feet, his speed suddenly a blur. ]